I fell head over heels into your blog after first finding your etsy shop. You have lifted my spirit and warmed my soul as I live in a northern snow covered woodsy place as well and I was feeling rather blue and not appreciating the season the way you do. It was hard to choose but your painting Picking Up Sticks tugs at my heartstrings as it reminds me of my dear mother who I have been thinking about a lot lately as her simple little gold wedding band that I wore on my pinky decided to remove itself from my finger the other day while I was out and about. ~Sara
What a delight it has been to discover your blog (through PG also - although I have been a lover of your etsy shop for a short wee while). How lovely to see the snow in your imgages - I am missing Scotland terribly at the moment - my family take great delight in telling me of the snow they have and I cannot help but be slightly envious!
Wishing you a wonderful year for 2008 and very much looking forward to reading more of your blog.
What a wonderfully strange world you live in. I love your illustrations - so evocative of a lost childhood world of magic and mystery. All best wishes from Morocco
I know that ther is always one and that is me. I have just found your blog. WOW! Do you have any calendars left please. It would look awesome on my desk. If not there is always next year. Thanks Sara
Thanks to everyone for lovely words :) It is still snowy here :) Sara... yes I have a few but they are the last dog-eared ones! If you want one that's been on display then you are welcome to it ... email me at rima@the-hermitage.org.uk Cheers Rima
Hello Rima, I followed Elizabeth from Morocco here. I have been visiting in Michigan, US, and your weather looks the same as that of MI. Cold and snowy. I live in Southern California, but my geneology shows me I have Irish and Scottish ancestors. I would love to visit Scotland--in the summer!
I discovered you right about the time you were starting to pack up the house for your adventure as nomads. I fell in love with your blog then and now I have started at the beginning and am working my way to your current post which was about being in Dartmoor. Entranced!!!
Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.
Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima has lived on wheels a few times in her life. She's currently rooted in mossy South Devon, halfway between moor and sea.
Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.
Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.
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What a beautiful looking place!I don't care what people say, I love the winter. I love the new drawings too.
Just came via pg at Middle of Nowhere. Love your work in your esty shop ~ Julia x
I fell head over heels into your blog after first finding your etsy shop.
You have lifted my spirit and warmed my soul as I live in a northern snow covered woodsy place as well and I was feeling rather blue and not appreciating the season the way you do.
It was hard to choose but your painting Picking Up Sticks tugs at my heartstrings as it reminds me of my dear mother who I have been thinking about a lot lately as her simple little gold wedding band that I wore on my pinky decided to remove itself from my finger the other day while I was out and about.
~Sara
What a delight it has been to discover your blog (through PG also - although I have been a lover of your etsy shop for a short wee while). How lovely to see the snow in your imgages - I am missing Scotland terribly at the moment - my family take great delight in telling me of the snow they have and I cannot help but be slightly envious!
Wishing you a wonderful year for 2008 and very much looking forward to reading more of your blog.
Lovely pictures Rima...I so love the snow...everthing looks so 'Otherworldly'.
Take care,
Alison x
What a wonderfully strange world you live in.
I love your illustrations - so evocative of a lost childhood world of magic and mystery.
All best wishes from Morocco
I know that ther is always one and that is me. I have just found your blog. WOW! Do you have any calendars left please. It would look awesome on my desk. If not there is always next year. Thanks Sara
Thanks to everyone for lovely words :) It is still snowy here :)
Sara... yes I have a few but they are the last dog-eared ones! If you want one that's been on display then you are welcome to it ... email me at rima@the-hermitage.org.uk
Cheers Rima
Hello Rima, I followed Elizabeth from Morocco here. I have been visiting in Michigan, US, and your weather looks the same as that of MI. Cold and snowy. I live in Southern California, but my geneology shows me I have Irish and Scottish ancestors. I would love to visit Scotland--in the summer!
Happy New Year Rima,
Your blog is astounding.
Delighted to learn you are happy in Scotland.
Much love
I discovered you right about the time you were starting to pack up the house for your adventure as nomads. I fell in love with your blog then and now I have started at the beginning and am working my way to your current post which was about being in Dartmoor. Entranced!!!
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