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Thursday, 3 April 2008
Everything you can imagine is Real
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- Green & Grey to Brown & Blue or Several Contemplations at the Crossing Places
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- Ventriloquism
- The Rootpond Clock & Considerations on Artistic Conversation
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- Old Women Who Paint On Their Walls
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- 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
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- The Hedge Brother Clock
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- 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
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- A Carnival of Caravans
- The Greening & The Keening
- What I saw by the Wayside
- Oil paint for the ears, spring flowers for the sorrows
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- 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...
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- View through the portholes
- Burnt Orange Evenings
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- The neighbours beyond the curtains
- Misrule, Mockery & Monstrosity
- A New Story
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- 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
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- The Curse
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- Paper November
- The Spoon-Eared Child
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- Northern Nomadings
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- View from the sickbed
- Postcard from The Hermitage
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- The Goods & Chattels Man
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- The Fencer's Clock
- On The State Of My Paintbrushes, Book Corners & Clock Parts
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- Seven Impossible Things
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- Long walks and rainclouds
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- Once Upon O'Clock
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- 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 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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I heartily cheer on creative inspiration and each and every person's own unique inner imaginative spring.
Passing along the torch of desire to connect with this in yourself is a wonderful thing, but siphoning unimaginatively from another's well saddens me.
Please ask before you use my artwork, words or photographs and include credit and a link back here, thank you :)
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
- Two Ravens Press
- Up the Wolds & Through the Heath
- Westcountry School of Myth
- Wild Talewort
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
- Meinrad Craighead
- 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
- Alex Goodman
- 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
- Joanna Hruby
- Jodi Le Bigre
- Joel Stewart
- John Lawrence
- Julian de Narvaez
- Julie Paschkis
- Kate Evans
- 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
- Phoebe Wahl
- Pippa Chorley
- Rob Mason
- Sam Hamrick
- Sarah Young
- Shaun Tan
- Stuart Kolakovic
- Susan Sorrell Hill
- Terri Windling
- Tomislav Tomić
- Victoria Usova
- Virginia Lee
- Vladimir Dunjić
- Yoko Tanaka
- Yuko Michishita
Illustrators of Great Note
Inklings of Illustration, burblings of books
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
- Khushushban
- 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
- Phoebe Wahl
- 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
- Oak Leaf Jewellery - Damien Hackney
- Paul Devon Young
- 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
A fistful of freedom fighters
- Adbusters
- Climate Camp
- Dark Mountain Project
- 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
- STIR
- Schnews
- Space Hijackers
- The Alliance for Wild Ethics
- The Land Is Ours
- Underminers
- Vivid
- WWOLFING (WWOOFING with teeth)
- We The Uncivilized
A Knapsackfull of Nomadic & Alternative Dwellings
- A Journey on Foot
- 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
- Rural Academy Theatre
- 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
- Windy Smithy
- Windy Smithy
A toyboxful of folk art links
A treasuremap of intriguing explorers
- A Sacred Friendship
- A Woman Adrift On A Sea Of Dreams
- Accept All Offerings
- Anchors & Masts
- Angeliska Gazette
- Anthromama
- Art Propelled
- Bibliodyssey
- Bio Ephemera
- Brilig Place
- Cabinet of Curiosities
- Cabinet of Wonders
- Cat Lupton
- Constructing a Simpler Life
- Coyopa
- Crackle Mountain
- Crooked House
- Dougie Strang
- Folk & Fairy
- From the House of Edward
- Gifts of the Journey
- Heart & Soil
- Hexagonia
- Honey Grove Farm
- In the Labyrinth
- Journeys Inbetween
- 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 Bosky Man - Andy Letcher
- The Day After Tuesday
- The Fox & the Hare
- The Hermitary
- These Precious and Beautiful Things
- Warren Draper
A haberdashery of crafts
- Angharad Barlow - Atelier Bee
- 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
- Slavic Folklore & World Dreaming
- 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
- Aching to Create
- 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
- Clive Hicks-Jenkins
- Crankbunny
- Dark Matters
- Faith Eliott
- Faulty Optic
- Fourteen Balls Toy Company
- Handspring Puppet Company
- Jan Zalud
- 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
- Rachel Larkins
- Rene Baker
- 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
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14 comments:
Lovely, and so, so true.
What a great motto to start adulkt hood with!
Needlefelt follows exactly the same principles as dreadlocks! In fact the same wool I use for my toys is also sold for false 'dreads'. So your analogy was quite correct. :)
Lovely!
This should hang above everyone's door!
Apt quote for this morning on the other end of the world. Sometimes we forget exactly that.
So true!
A friend of mine said to me something very, very similar many years ago. I listened to "if you can imagine yourself doing it, it will happen", and remembering that advice, I carved my way out of being a waitress/barmaid/Mrs Tiggywinkle ornament painter, into a children's book illustrator!
Is she planning on a creative career?
I bet she'll be pleased as punch with that pressie, how lovely, lovely!
I've not commented in a while, but I have been dropping in. I've been enjoying so much the lore and stories. May I recommend 'the folklore of plants' by shire publishing...it's great!
enough waffle from me....
Erica
xoxo
When I visit here I always leave inspired by either your beautiful art or, today, with wonderful words to share with my 17-year-old son...words for him to take at heart as he follows his bliss. Thank you Rima!
Great present.
Take care,
Alison x
It truly is the best quote, What a lovely Gift!
What an inspiring blog you have.
A great quote and a lovely gift for your young friend.
You have an award on my page waiting for you!!
I love your quote. Quite a gift. It takes one of my favorites one step further: "I believe in all things visible and invisible," from the Nicene Creed.
Beautiful gift, Rima... A sentiment those of us many years past the age of 18 could also stand to remember... Donna
Lovely paintings and a great quote, I think I need that in my head more.
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