tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post3562832090658543719..comments2024-02-15T19:34:03.944+00:00Comments on The Hermitage: Owl WordsRima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-70838130529166806302011-06-29T08:49:53.798+01:002011-06-29T08:49:53.798+01:00Your illustrations are heavenly, and the clock too...Your illustrations are heavenly, and the clock too. Such beautiful owls, we are lucky to have a family of them near by and often come into our paddock, such beautiful creatures.You capture them perfectlyRonnie (RR)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14270742760569728851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-78225965325265544002011-05-01T15:30:18.480+01:002011-05-01T15:30:18.480+01:00Another bit of owl-death folklore, in a piece of 1...Another bit of owl-death folklore, in a piece of 17th century who-hootery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbkTP7NJXMEPeacocks and Sunflowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915384347467690635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-24838616520562408222011-03-26T12:30:34.758+00:002011-03-26T12:30:34.758+00:00rima i've been away for a while and so i'm...rima i've been away for a while and so i'm rooting through the little pile of treasures and parcels that have arrived in my absence. i'm drawn to the idea of almost owl for its opening up of the almost i see in so many people. almost cat, almost butterfly, especially in children. it's interesting to try and see "mistakes" or "not-so-good" in your work rima, simply because my critical sense fails me when i see your drawing and painting - it takes me into the world i love and so how could i see anything wrong with it?! thankyou for the introduction to the worlds of catherynn valente. i've been reading her since the post you created on your artwork for her. i'm so glad that the world of her worlds has melded with mine! stevenstevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14132104804524716898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-59578509450765823802011-03-25T20:56:11.156+00:002011-03-25T20:56:11.156+00:00I love them all, Rima, whether you see them as fai...I love them all, Rima, whether you see them as failures or no.Kristinehttp://anthromama.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-60452112503394103062011-03-25T00:03:32.017+00:002011-03-25T00:03:32.017+00:00yet another owl-woman, Ovid's Nyctimene from t...yet another owl-woman, Ovid's Nyctimene from the MetamorphosesPeacocks and Sunflowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915384347467690635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-61113580709802772002011-03-18T03:01:36.190+00:002011-03-18T03:01:36.190+00:00Where I work is surrounded by a nature reserve, an...Where I work is surrounded by a nature reserve, and if ?I go outside, almost nightly I hear the call of a tawny owl.<br /><br />Then, a few nights ago, just as the sky began to grow light, I saw him. Silently flying low over our grounds. He was accompanied on each side by blackbirds. <br /><br />It reminded me so much of the famous Historic Flight - the Lancaster bomber flanked by a Spitfire and a Hurricane.<br /><br />One harbinger of death reminding me of another..........<br /><br />Despite that, I love owls, and their big soulful eyesLittleInsecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14232134356798382567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-45976031339817941992011-03-16T23:50:15.957+00:002011-03-16T23:50:15.957+00:00I think the owl-woman is a wonderful exploration i...I think the owl-woman is a wonderful exploration into new material and the real mysterious nature of owls. Art pieces often have a life that begins after creation that is unpredictable...she is melancholy,wise,and still creating. I like the incorporation of the words for owl too. Its great that two people mentioned 'I Heard The Owl Call My Name'--I love the book and a cousin of my dad wrote it! I also live in the northwest and have recently learned more about the lore of the owl. The owl hooting the couple is lovely too...Lrchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287598217794642050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-90357382883557884432011-03-16T09:34:08.393+00:002011-03-16T09:34:08.393+00:00Thanks for the kind wods about our music!
Ah, but...Thanks for the kind wods about our music!<br /><br />Ah, but I know the feeling all too well of when a piece refuses to work - it doesn't matter what others say, there's a nagging sense that something is missing, that you were trying too hard, or that the parts don't quite make a whole. Horrid!<br /><br />I have a box full of songs that didn't make it. Every so often I get them out, dust them off, see if age has improved them. Nope! Hey ho - I've yet to meet an artist who doesn't experience the same thing, but hey, it sucks.<br /><br />But often the piece that doesn't quite work for you is the one that leads on to the one that does. Maybe you needed the frustration of the owl woman to get to the, frankly extraordinary, hoot? Small comfort, perhaps.<br /><br />Went to see the poet Don Paterson read the other day. He cautioned that you should never know what your poem is going to be about before you write it - or rather, what it's about should emerge in the writing. If it doesn't surprise you, how will it surprise anyone else.<br /><br />Looking back, I see that all my songs that haven't 'worked' are the ones where I tried to make them 'about' something. He is so right.<br /><br />So, solidarity at the coalface. Keep hewing - you know we love what you do.<br /><br />Andy xxxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03200561583631896799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-29201155424520666082011-03-15T16:57:15.381+00:002011-03-15T16:57:15.381+00:00I second the recommendation of Margaret Craven'...I second the recommendation of Margaret Craven's 'I heard the owl call my name'. Every seminarian in British Columbia probably receives at least three copies on ordination! it makes me homesick. Owls are associated with death in several Pacific Northwest First Nations cultures, and they feature in masks and other art forms. Love the Wordowl Clock.Peacocks and Sunflowershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915384347467690635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-77409821470324569152011-03-15T15:33:28.606+00:002011-03-15T15:33:28.606+00:00Your owls are beautiful, and the owl woman is very...Your owls are beautiful, and the owl woman is very lovely. <br /><br />I love owls. An owl used to live in an old deodar cedar behind the house where I grew up. Many nights I woke to hear the soft call. Owl and tree are gone now, but even though I live in a huge metropolitan area, occasionally owls fly overhead. I've even seen them downtown! <br /><br />http://tiny.cc/rj3xtMaggiehttp://mockingbirdsatmidnight.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-17125630501349817152011-03-15T12:24:46.898+00:002011-03-15T12:24:46.898+00:00I think the owl woman is brilliant, really brillia...I think the owl woman is brilliant, really brilliant. I find it hard to express in words what I think of it, so I'll just say that. I completely love it. What a happy meander off the path of intentions!yew tree nightshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14159879472613574800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-19129645271665799732011-03-14T18:23:07.991+00:002011-03-14T18:23:07.991+00:00The owl-woman has knowledge, sometimes knowledge i...The owl-woman has knowledge, sometimes knowledge is sadnessgzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08034777779347889773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-46128423598227620782011-03-14T13:57:00.677+00:002011-03-14T13:57:00.677+00:00What an excellent post Rima. I love the owl clock,...What an excellent post Rima. I love the owl clock, i'm always curious about your clocks because I know most of them are commissions now so we don't get to see them all, it's great to have a look. <br /><br />I know what you mean about handling paints in a non-traditional manner- I also tend to go thin and weak with layers of oil..although I believe this has its supporters too...As for gouache, I think you did a great job with it! And pastels in the background are a good move. Actually the background i'd never have attributed to you if I just saw it cold. Maybe that is why you're not sure? It seems nothing like your usual palette, for me it's nicely surprising.<br /><br />And the owl drawing - superb...Just the perfect softness of rendering and warm natural paper.<br /><br />And here's a thing - Last night I had a dream that i'd gone to the front door to call the cat in and out of the darkness came a giant barn owl. It glided right by me and was gone.....This morning doing the washing up I remembered it but it took me a while to realize it was in fact a dream...the whole thing had been totally ordinary-seeming. And here I opened your post...and it's nothing but owls all day and night :) xLindseyhttp://www.littlerobot.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-67691644804420690262011-03-14T13:53:19.038+00:002011-03-14T13:53:19.038+00:00In Japan, Owls are also associated with knowledge....In Japan, Owls are also associated with knowledge. My host father gave me a hand sculpted owl when I was a university student in Tokyo. He said it would help me perform :)<br /><br />I like your painting. The owl lady, I really like what you did with her. I would hang the paiting in my study :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-34032190346392149342011-03-14T13:26:33.332+00:002011-03-14T13:26:33.332+00:00Maybe an omen of passing more generally, as well a...Maybe an omen of passing more generally, as well as death; cleansing sometimes, and the relief of difficulty completed. <br />Wonderful to share the first sprouting of your gouache and pastel wings.Lunar Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12649116426473034929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-85348697487893416772011-03-14T12:56:38.851+00:002011-03-14T12:56:38.851+00:00Have long been capitivated by owls, ever since a t...Have long been capitivated by owls, ever since a tame one turned it's head and held my bewildered gaze with its own steady one, years ago. Keep promising myself that my first tattoo will be of an owl.<br />The owl woman is astonishing and oddly beautiful.Toniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15740360046558563158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-7838301992627550632011-03-14T11:45:10.191+00:002011-03-14T11:45:10.191+00:00Oh, and I meant to say...I aDORe that owl clock! T...Oh, and I meant to say...I aDORe that owl clock! The owl's eyes are astonishing. They remind me of little emerald beads. :) xxJesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593348601123003194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-58617954085291833552011-03-14T11:43:19.427+00:002011-03-14T11:43:19.427+00:00I think both artworks are fantastic but the second...I think both artworks are fantastic but the second one has such depth!xxJesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17593348601123003194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-39887374395019574272011-03-13T22:13:39.943+00:002011-03-13T22:13:39.943+00:00She's fascinating, spellbinding, powerful,seem...She's fascinating, spellbinding, powerful,seeming steeped in superstition and old magic, especially in the kind of ritual way she's scribing the words... <br />In the photo of her on your drawing board partly lit, she looks as if about to hop off the branch onto your table! I find it quite a compelling image, exuding so strongly all the various folklore and symbolisms of the Owl and of shapeshifting.<br />In contrast the other in pencil is almost playful, I love the two children and the way they echo your own owl-hooting walk in the woods...<br />It's also great to see your work in progress of the painting...<br />Carrie... :-)Windsongs and Wordhoardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12211375575810428500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-65528830892294938802011-03-13T20:24:30.744+00:002011-03-13T20:24:30.744+00:00Three amazing works Rima, and all so different. I ...Three amazing works Rima, and all so different. I adore the owl clock, which reminds me of Owl in Winnie the Pooh, and in Squirrel Nutkin, which I loved as a child, especially when the owl bites off his tail :0)<br /><br />The owl woman is amazing. I skimmed through the images without reading first of all, greedy for the pictures :0) and assumed it was Bloduwedd being transformed into an owl. That imagery always reminds me of Alan Garner's "Owl Service" - another childhood fave. I must admit, although I love the picture I don't know if I could live with the look of loss and sadness she has. It's a very powerful piece. <br /><br />I think the last is gorgeous. I love the way the children's arms are linked, and the fact that they are the owl's hoot. <br /><br />Am I right in thinking that the Latin for Owls - Strix - also means "witches" ? So it's like they are her spell. Wonderful :0)<br /><br />Much love to you two from we three xxxSnippety Gibletshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17930936252635422357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-88874707370634081842011-03-13T20:03:35.232+00:002011-03-13T20:03:35.232+00:00I've never thought of an owl as a sign ... I&#...I've never thought of an owl as a sign ... I've tended to realise harbingers as they've happened in my life. I'll probably pay a bit more attention to an owl now :)piphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05938648083559653296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-44013520959457765742011-03-13T17:03:01.474+00:002011-03-13T17:03:01.474+00:00Its a wonderful picture - both of them. The backgr...Its a wonderful picture - both of them. The background of the owl-maiden image has the frosty, semi-transparet, northern quality, a hint of Aurora Borealis in the night air, or so it seems to me.<br />It was especially touching to find the Estonian word on the pages of the owl's book; I didn't think anyone outside Estonia would be using this language :)Lectehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17023192496254569535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-83738022513361787182011-03-13T16:29:47.727+00:002011-03-13T16:29:47.727+00:00I adore these creatures. We have many outside our ...I adore these creatures. We have many outside our window, hooting in the tops of the trees at midnight. Funny, I never remember them as a little girl, but as their habitats have fallen to increasing human population, they seem to have found our well-forested neighbourhood. And for that I am glad. I think your clock is just magnificent, and I love both the paintings, even though you have problems with the morphing lady.Pamela Terry and Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746603636884819522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-32463263727985769942011-03-13T12:43:42.337+00:002011-03-13T12:43:42.337+00:00what a wonderful post, such beautiful artwork, you...what a wonderful post, such beautiful artwork, your clock particularly is amazing. Thanks for sharing all the mythology around the owl too. I have a favourite tawny owl, who I often see in the daytime in its roost in an old tree, it looks so anciently wiseCrafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-26644352791570796552011-03-13T10:52:56.627+00:002011-03-13T10:52:56.627+00:00Your owl clock is wonderful, I'm quite sure hi...Your owl clock is wonderful, I'm quite sure his Mum will be thrilled! I too was surprised to see it's smallness I also pictured it bigger.<br />I love Owl's I think they're very beautiful and fascinating.Half-heard in the Stillnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840301617199033576noreply@blogger.com