Not a real loaf

Posted on July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Alice Beech, Bread, last performance, life food, Memories, Music, Opera, Scene, Soprano, Time2 Comments

Dough used by the soprano, Rosie (playing Alice) who was in the Alice Beech scene in Who is Molly Leigh? On the scene she pretends to make penny loaves for the widows and orphans of Burslem. When she passes away she bequeaths her cottage to Alice. The scene shows Alice baking and donating penny loaves to the poor.

One of the props every performance was some dough so she had something to represent the work at baking she did while she was singing her part. This was left over at the end of the Opera so I decided to make it into a Cottage loaf shape! No yeast involved and not cooked.

Blackbird puppets

Posted on July 26, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, B'arts, Bird, Blackbird, famiiats, Fine Art, Fun, Nest, Opera, Scene, who is Molly LeighLeave a comment

Two large blackbirds in a nest, one seeps, the other flutters. They have collected everything from apple cores to brass bells, keys to brooches. Theyay be Molly Leighs familiar. In one of the scenes of the Opera “Who is Molly Leigh”

Great props by makers at the BArts art company.

Blue hue

Posted on October 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aurora, Blue, change night, Dawn, Day, Display, Glow, Green, Horror, Nightmare, Poem, Poetry, Scene, SpiritsLeave a comment

This morning

The light turned

From green to blue

As the sun rose

And chased away auroras.

Nightmare scenes

Of devilish greens

Just a phantom thought

Flashing through the sky…

Halloween is near

Spirits swoop in shear

Joy

Renoir collaboration

Posted on November 2, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, Memories, UncategorizedTagged Art, Collaboration, Collage, Drawing, Figures, Fine, Landscape, Memory, Painting, Renoir, Scene4 Comments

The second, and most difficult, painting collaboration by Orme Art Group from this summers challenge.

It’s, amazing to have so many techniques and styles pulled together in this final image. Some parts line up better than others but it really shows the tenacity of the group with all the complicated figures and colourful background we tried to copy. I hope Renoir would not have been too disappointed!

Fuzzy photo

Posted on February 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Factories, Forty years ago, industry pollution, Life, Memory, Photo, Scene, TimeLeave a comment

photo across the ages from forty years ago when I first went to college. Why? The sky was dirtier, there was dust and smoke in the air from places like the Michelin Tyre Factory. I don’t know if that’s a chimney in the distance or a crane.

Why keep blurry old photos? They link you to memories of a time long gone, of a changed world. Where there was some interest in pollution and ozone holes, but not enough pressure to improve things.

Maybe I should just delete this, but this was a prompt I wanted to use.

Fog, what Fog?

Posted on November 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cat, Life, Looking out, Photo, Scene, View, Window, WindowsillLeave a comment

It was meant to be foggy this morning. I was looking forward to going out to take photos in the mist… But it didn’t arrive! Instead I took an ‘atmospheric’ photo of the cat on the windowledge. There’s a teatowel on the wooden chest that I use when I’m painting.

I’ve seen lots of misty photos over the last few days, so I hope I’ll be able to get some interesting images… We shall see.

Mallaband-Brown

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