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An archive of hermit ramblings ... most recent topmost
- The Nisse Mother Clock
- Small Visitations from a Winter-Dusted Equinox
- From the Mourning of the World
- The Land
- Wayfaring
- What Grief Weighs
- The Devotions of Winter
- The Battle Between Frost & Light
- Krasa
- Red & Gold
- Bird People
- A Tonic for the Turning In
- Carrying a Story to the End of The Land
- An invitation from amid the madness of late summer...
- Announcements like the petals on daisies
- The Stories of Summer
- The Alchemist
- A May Miscellany
- Hedgewalking
- The Elf With the Upside-Down Heart
- Rise & Root
- Unsnow
- Wayfarers' Nativity
- Autumn Aflame
- Atching Tan
- The Bagpipe Society
- Flowers in the Hair of Summer, Songs in the River of Green
- Dark Mountain
- A Brush in the Blue Paintwater Jar of June
- The Wide Skies
- A Wayfarer's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Spring Tripped
- Owl Words
- The Gate at the Edge of the Village
- Green & Grey to Brown & Blue or Several Contemplations at the Crossing Places
- The Icicle-Spoked Wheel of Fire
- White-Ivied
- Hermitage Bazaar
- Marvels & Tales
- Ventriloquism
- The Rootpond Clock & Considerations on Artistic Conversation
- October's Microcosmic Circus
- Lemniscate
- Five Chapters of Summer
- Old Women Who Paint On Their Walls
- This...
- Les Amanz
- Wagons and Weirds and Wonderfuls
- Flowers for May
- Babes in the Wood
- The Day The Dunnock Died
- The Mad Hatter Clock and some spring fairs
- A spring walk one sunny evening by the river
- At sixes and sevens
- The Hedge Brother Clock
- The Hare Mycomusicologist Clock
- Mad girls, sung ships, ivy lamps, rooted houses, and the ever-turning...
- Melted Snow
- It is snowing in the book of my childhood
- Sunrise, Moonset, Lanternlit, Rainwet
- An English Arcanum
- The November Clock
- The falling laves and the strange case of vitamin B12
- At my parents' house
- A new hill in October
- Self Portrait
- A mountain song for my wordless son
- Acorns and Blackberries
- Vagabond Villages & Transient Towns
- The mists between horses and hares
- Wet Welsh Weddings
- The One Two Bird And The Half horse
- In the Woods
- Elder
- A Carnival of Caravans
- The Greening & The Keening
- What I saw by the Wayside
- Oil paint for the ears, spring flowers for the sorrows
- Tree Studio
- A House on Your Back
- Tiny corners of our home in sunlight after rain
- Tales of third eyes, injector pipes, duck eggs, children's drawings and some other lovely things...
- The Avocado Tree Clock
- Trees
- View through the portholes
- Burnt Orange Evenings
- Gnarls in the Branches
- The neighbours beyond the curtains
- Misrule, Mockery & Monstrosity
- A New Story
- Fogs and Fish Eggs
- The Orchard Tales & The Orchard Toils of the First Few Days of Two Thousand And Nine
- Horseboxingday Happy
- "Well goodbye then!" They cried
- A visit from Jack Frost
- Hiding The Hedgehog & Other Stories
- Lanterns in the snow
- Hinges, Handles, Taps, Tiles & Blisters
- The Curse
- Wonderful Wheels
- Balalaika
- Paper November
- The Spoon-Eared Child
- Dusty Bookshelves
- Treescapes & Seasons (..Seascapes & Treasons?)
- The Clock Tarot
- Hark Hark
- Three Red Things
- Paintspoons & Teabrushes
- The Jeweller's Clock
- Sharmanka & The Chronophage
- Northern Nomadings
- Feathering the nest
- The Storyteller's Clock
- Linoleum Nuptuals
- Vissudha and the problem of Ultramarine
- A sniff of Autumn
- View from the sickbed
- Postcard from The Hermitage
- Snail Water
- A crock of potteries
- The Goods & Chattels Man
- Our first wheeled cup of tea
- The Fencer's Clock
- On The State Of My Paintbrushes, Book Corners & Clock Parts
- Anahata
- Seven Impossible Things
- The Perfumier's Clock
- The people on the streets
- Long walks and rainclouds
- Flies & time
- Once Upon O'Clock
- Wildflowers & windows
- Rain, rain & little bits of news
- Inspirations, Illustrations, Imaginations
- A seafaring door
- The Visitors
- Lost Things
- Orla Wren Films
- The Concertina Eggcup Song
- A barrel stove day
- Little Yellow Stowaways
- Myths & Magazines
- Rogier van der Weyden
- Witch Bottle
- Mum & Dad
- The Game
- Sunlight on windows and water
- Manipura
- Wet socks and disappointment
- A box of beads on a foggy day
- Deadly Curios & Wardrobe Clearouts
- Telling the Bees
- Thankyous & News
- Of nature and technology and of being caught between
- There's a stair in her hair
- Bohemian Beelzebubbian Books
- Everything you can imagine is real
- Weeds & Wees
- It is Spring
- Eggs & Serpents
- Leg Wheel & Jew Harp
- Some turtles have nice shells
- The Animation Attic
- Ringing bells in other people's spirits
- Hands
- The Book Thief
- Kneeling Goats & Mossy Kettles
- Kakuarshuk
- Stones & Bones
- Sun on the Chimbleys
- Honey & Klezmer
- A button house for a button mouse
- Bees in a Blizzard and Dripping Pianos
- The Smudge Fly
- Moving Still Pictures
- Some brown parcel tape and the beginnings of a tale...
- Naomi & The Devil of Darkling Green
- A nOrsebox!
- A House, a Tree & Two Birds
- A Busy Nest
- House on Wheels
- Friday, the day for...
- Snow in the Village
- Snegurochka
- Father Frost
- A Day of Firsts
- Father Christmas
- Feet & Noses
- Knecht Ruprecht
- Mother Holle
- Baba Yaga
- Cailleach Bheur
- Tomte
- People of the Winterlands
- Happy Christmas
- Squeezing Boxes
- Winterdust & Heather
- Seven Paintings
- Pencils & Pens
- Hickory Dickory
- A Tale of Two Tinkers
- The Woods
- Xaphoon
- Things
- Remember Remember
- Warm Windowpanes
- An Old New Tale and the beginning of its Telling
- The Land
- Wayfaring
- What Grief Weighs
- The Devotions of Winter
- The Battle Between Frost & Light
- Krasa
- Red & Gold
- Bird People
- A Tonic for the Turning In
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About Me
- Rima Staines
- Dartmoor, United Kingdom
- 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’s houses have a tendency to be wheeled. She currently dwells in an old cottage on top of a hill on the edge of Dartmoor with her beloved, Tom, & their big-hearted, ice-eyed lurcher, Macha.
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.
Donations ::
A small note about Copyright...
My handmade clocks:
Tom the Maskmaker & Wordsmith:
My Parents' Work:
Encouragers of Tales
- Alan Garner
- Ari Berk
- Cabinet des Fées
- Coyopa
- Dante's Heart
- Dark Mountain
- Diamonds & Toads
- Eddie Lenihan
- Edward Gorey
- Endicott Studios
- Fairy Tale Review
- Fairytale Cupboard
- Folklore Society
- Goblin Fruit
- Jan Svankmajer
- Jane Yolen
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Les Bonnes Fees
- Marvels & Tales - Journal
- Michael Rosen
- Museum of Mythstories
- Mythic Passages
- Oliver Postgate
- Open Storytellers
- Philip Pullman
- Sacred Texts
- Sandra Kasturi
- School of Storytelling
- Seven Impossible Things
- Seven Stories - Children's Book Centre
- Snapper & the Griffin
- Society for Storytelling
- Sur La Lune Fairytales
- Sussex centre for folklore, fairy tales & fantasy
- The Goose Grail
- The Story Museum
- The Telling
- The Telling
- Two Ravens Press
- Up the Wolds & Through the Heath
- Westcountry School of Myth
Wonderful Wonderful Painters
- Albrecht Dürer
- Aleksei Ezhov
- Anna Berezovskaya
- Arik Brauer
- Egon Schiele
- Gennadii Gogoliuk
- Georges Mazilu
- Gwen John
- Hieronymous Bosch
- Jan Mankes
- Jan van Eyck
- Kateryna Kosyanenko
- Nikolai Fechin
- Odd Nerdrum
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Rogier van der Weyden
- Vasily Kafanov
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wilhelm Leibl
People who paint and draw & I like what I saw
- Alessandra Cimatoribus
- Anke Weckmann
- Aria Nadii
- Beatrice Coron
- Carson Ellis
- Catherine Hyde
- Clive Hicks-Jenkins
- Daniel Michael Clark
- David Wyatt
- Ed Boxall
- Eric Orchard
- Gabriel Pacheco
- Gretel Parker
- Hanna Tuulikki
- Hannah Shaw
- Hita Hirons
- Holly Mae Prendergast
- Irene Winn-Lederer
- Jackie Morris
- Jane Filer
- Jeannie Lynn Paske
- Joel Stewart
- John Lawrence
- Julian de Narvaez
- Julie Paschkis
- Kathleen Lolley
- Linda S Wingerter
- Lindsey Carr
- Lisa Hurwitz
- Lydia Shulgin
- Marieloes Reek
- Mayo Nmg
- Melanie Wickham
- Miranda Vincent
- Nicoletta Ceccoli
- Nomi McLeod
- Oliver Hunter
- Phlegm
- Pippa Chorley
- Rob Mason
- Sam Hamrick
- Shaun Tan
- Stuart Kolakovic
- Terri Windling
- Tomislav Tomić
- Victoria Usova
- Virginia Lee
- Vladimir Dunjić
- Yoko Tanaka
- Yuko Michishita
Illustrators of Great Note
Inklings of Illustration, burblings of books
- Association of Illustrators
- Curious Pages
- Drawn!
- Fairyroom.ru
- House of the Ravens
- Illustration Friday
- On My Desk
- Papaveria Press
- Phantasmaphile
- Pikaland
- Seven Impossible Things
- Taller Leñateros - Mayan Publishing Collective, Chiapas
- Tara Books
- The Illustration Cupboard
- Where troubles melt like lemon drops
A paletteful of illustrator and artist blogs
- A Musing
- Acorn Moon
- Air & Parchment
- Alex Barrow
- Allison Sommers
- Anke Weckmann
- Art of the Masses
- Black Carrot Secret Diaries
- Brian McKenzie
- Camilla Engman
- Carson Ellis
- Cathy Cullis
- Chichi Parish
- Christiane Engel
- Clive Hicks-Jenkins Artlog
- Curious Art
- Dani Torrent
- Darja Charapova
- David Wyatt
- Drawing A Line In Time
- Eric Orchard
- Erica's Attic
- Estarse Quieta
- Forest Eyes
- Forest Rogers
- Gabriel Pacheco
- Giallo Antico
- Golly Bard's Drawing Room
- Harvest Moon
- Herbert Pfostl's Paper Graveyard
- Imagination Chariot
- Jean-Baptiste Monge
- John Barleycorn Must Die
- Katrine K
- Katy Horan
- Koldo Barroso
- Letters From Schwarzville
- Life as a tea party
- Lindsey Carr
- Lisa Hurwitz
- Maja Veselinović
- Marcus Gunnar Pettersson
- Middle Of Nowhere
- Mockingbirds at Midnight
- Moonlight & Hares
- Myth Meandering - Virginia Lee
- Notes from the Rookery
- Pablo Auladell
- Painted Books
- Paul Bommer
- Paula's Place
- Phlegm
- Print-Temps
- Sara Morante
- Sarah Ogren
- Silver Apples of the Moon
- Stuart Kolakovic
- Swan Bones Theater
- Terri Windling's Drawing Board
- The Haunted Studio Under the Stairs
- The Indigo Vat
- The Pipit Nest
- The Plum Tree
- Whalefish Studios
- Yew Tree Nights
- картинки и сказки - Sveta Dorosheva
Poets, Wordsmiths, Linguistic Painters
A hedgerowful of wild and weedy wonders
A tribeful of my local wonderworkers
- A Basket of Leaves - Thomas Hine
- Artisan
- Barefoot Barn
- Bellacouche - Yuli Somme
- Brian and Wendy Froud
- Chagfood
- Chagford Filmmaking Group
- Coyopa - Tom Hirons
- Dartmoor Drums - Suzi Crockford
- Daughters of Elvin
- David Wyatt
- Elizabeth Jane Baldry
- Ione Rucquoi
- Jason of England
- John Barleycorn Must Die
- Juliette Mills
- Lunar Hine
- Moon on the Moor - Susie Yorke
- Notes from the Rookery - Danielle Barlow
- Proper Job
- Ramblings from the River
- Regenco
- Silver & Moor - Miriam Boy
- Steward Wood
- Sustainable Styling - Angharad Barlow
- Terri Windling
- Virginia Lee
- Westcountry Folklore
- Westcountry School of Myth & Story
- Wild Woods & Willow
- Wood & Rush
- Wordcraft - Damien Hackney
A fistful of freedom fighters
- Adbusters
- Climate Camp
- Dark Mountain Project
- Deep Green Resistance
- Deep Green Resistance UK
- Derrick Jensen
- Diggers 2012
- Earth First!
- Indymedia
- Kate Evans
- Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
- Leaving Babylon
- Nine Miles - Jim Hindle
- Rebel Clown Army
- Reclaim the Fields
- Schnews
- Space Hijackers
- STIR
- The Alliance for Wild Ethics
- The Land Is Ours
- Underminers
- Vivid
- WWOLFING (WWOOFING with teeth)
A Knapsackfull of Nomadic & Alternative Dwellings
- A Walk Around Britain
- Adventures of the Wandering Book Artists
- Click Clack Gorilla
- Emlett Arts & Crafts
- Enchanted Gypsy
- Gypsy Cafe
- Housetrucks
- Into the Wilderness
- John Labovitz
- Lammas
- Living the Rural Dream
- Lloyd Kahn
- Nomadic Way
- Off Grid Steve
- Simon Dale
- Small Living Journal
- Steward Wood
- That Roundhouse
- The Black Bus Company
- The Flying Tortoise
- The Land Magazine
- This Tiny House
- Traveller Homes
- Vardo For Two
A toyboxful of folk art links
A treasuremap of intriguing explorer blogs
- A Sacred Friendship
- A Woman Adrift On A Sea Of Dreams
- Accept All Offerings
- Anchors & Masts
- Andy Letcher
- Angeliska Gazette
- Anouk & Boobouk
- Anstruther
- Anthromama
- Art Propelled
- At Brigid's Forge
- Bibliodyssey
- Bio Ephemera
- Brilig Place
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- Cabinet of Wonders
- Cat Lupton
- Constructing a Simpler Life
- Coyopa
- Crackle Mountain
- Crooked House
- Folk & Fairy
- From the House of Edward
- Gifts of the Journey
- Heart & Soil
- Hexagonia
- In the Labyrinth
- Lunar Hine
- Magic Lantern Show
- Milkmoon
- Narrowboat: The Green Man
- Not all those who wander are lost
- Owl's Cabinet of Wonders
- Rag & Bone
- Snippety Giblets
- Telling the Bees
- The Day After Tuesday
- The Fox & the Hare
- The Hermitary
- The Teatime Traveller
- These Precious and Beautiful Things
- Warren Draper
- We Three Ginger Cats Tales
- Zen Forest
A haberdashery of crafts
- Barnacle Goose Paperworks
- Cobweb Crafts
- Desideratum
- Gilfling Designs
- Margaret Wozniak Ceramics
- Merveilles en Papier
- Moonbindery
- Pigmenta Peregrinae
- Robin & John Gumaelius
- Sarah Blank
- Secret Hill Mosaics
- Silver & Moor Jewellery
- Sleeping Forest Studios
- Spirit Cloth
- Su Blackwell
- Tales of a Junkaholic
- Ullabenulla
- Wake Robin
- Whalefish Studios
A darkroom of incredible photographs
An accordioncasefull of wonders
- Anatomical Theatre
- Anna Maria Pacheco
- Book Autopsies
- Boris Ivanov
- Carnivalesque
- Curious Expeditions
- Eric Freitas Clocks
- Ex Libris Museum
- Fed By Birds
- Giornale Nuovo
- Hundertwasser
- Orphan Wisdom - Stephen Jenkinson
- Outsider Environments Europe blog
- Patrick Harpur
- Poemas del Rio Wang
- Russian Lubok
- Sharmanka
- Siberian Wooden Houses
- The Human Marvels
- The Light & Shadow Salon
- The School of the Transfer of Energy
- The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga
- Troll Moon - Celebrating the Scandinavian Troll in Art & Folklore
- Unesco List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
- Vladimir Gvozdariki
A vardofull of Gypsy links
A boothful of animation-automata-puppet links
- A Curious Room
- Aleš Mertl
- Animation blog
- Archers Arcadia
- Artomic
- Automata Blog
- Automatomania
- British Puppet & Model Theatre Guild
- Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
- Cat Bruce
- Chomick & Meder
- Christiana Cegavske - Blood Tea & Red String
- Crankbunny
- Dark Matters
- Faulty Optic
- Fourteen Balls Toy Company
- Handspring Puppet Company
- Joanna Hruby
- Les Contes d'Asphaldt
- Little Angel Puppet Theatre
- Little Robot paper puppets
- London International Mime Festival
- London School of Puppetry
- Lost & Found Theatre
- National Puppetry Archive
- Niffiwan blog - Russian Animation
- Norstein Studio
- Norwich Puppet Theatre
- Notes from Halfland
- October Effigies
- Oliver Postgate
- Penny Plain Twopence Coloured
- Pollocks Toy Museum
- Puppet Animation Scotland
- Puppet Barge
- Puppet Centre Trust
- Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes
- Russian Animation
- Sharmanka - incredible kinetic theatre
- StopMotionAnimation.com
- Symphony of Shadows
- THE HERMITAGE YouTube Channel
- The World Through Wooden Eyes
- Theater Trampoline
11 comments:
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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