Portrait of Tom and me on Dartmoor, pregnant with our son in 2015 by Ishka Michocka. |
Friday, 7 December 2018
New Births on the Edge of Winter
Written by Rima Staines at 3:48 pm 5 words from others
Tags: art, artists, blogging, childbirth, children, dartmoor, family, motherhood, news, patreon, pregnancy, support
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
A basketful of treasure at Hibernation Time
The Storyteller - Advent Calendar by Rima Staines - available here |
Wolfmother by Rima Staines - available here |
Баю-баюшки-баю, Не ложися на краю. Придёт серенький волчок, Он ухватит за бочок И утащит во лесок Под ракитовый кусток. |
Bayu-bayushki-bayu, Ne lozhisya na krayu. Pridyot serenkiy volchok, On ukhvatit za bochok I utashchit vo lesok Pod rakitovy kustok. |
Baby, baby, rock-a-bye On the edge you mustn't lie Or the little grey wolf will come And will nip you on the tum, Tug you off into the wood Underneath the willow-root. |
Pages from Sanctum |
Written by Rima Staines at 7:19 pm 9 words from others
Tags: advent calendar, art, dark mountain project, dartmoor, exhibition, gallery, hedgespoken, journey, motherhood, prints, samhain, storytelling, sylvia linsteadt, tatterdemalion, tom hirons, winter
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Correspondence from the far off land of motherhood in a travelling theatre
Dear friends and longtime followers of this blog, which I began nearly a decade ago... It has been very quiet here, and I am sorry: it appears that raising a little one whilst building a travelling theatre is quite time consuming!
I have, however, written over at the Hedgespoken blog about our year just gone, and all the stories therein. Please do go and have a read, there are photos galore and more. And I will write again here, before too long, I hope.
Be well in these strange days, friends afar, I send you warm greetings from the winter hedgerows.
Written by Rima Staines at 10:40 pm 7 words from others
Tags: art, blogging, community, family, hedgespoken, life, rima staines, theatre, travelling
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Tatterdemalion
Written by Rima Staines at 3:30 pm 16 words from others
Tags: california, dartmoor, folktale, magic, novel, otherworld, outsiders, portal, publishing, rima staines, stories, strange, sylvia linsteadt, tatterdemalion, travellers, unbound, wayfarers, wonder, writing
Saturday, 19 December 2015
The Wayfarer's Year
Written by Rima Staines at 3:18 pm 21 words from others
Tags: calendar, challenges, dartmoor, family, hedgespoken, home, motherhood, painting, truck, wayfarers year, winter
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Wild Goddesses and Gods
The truck build continues in its wonderful slow and majestic way, we hope to have an update on its progress soon over at Hedgespoken. During all the welding and decision-making and wood-planing and painting and hammering, a filmmaker from Germany, Marie Elisa Scheidt, has been accompanying our journey for a final piece for her studies. We are one of three protagonists in her documentary, which has a working title of Our Wildest Dreams, and which you can see glimpses of here. These two pictures below, taken earlier in the year, when both babe and truck-home were not quite so grown, are by her.
Written by Rima Staines at 6:40 pm 35 words from others
Tags: art, book, creativity, family, illustration, motherhood, news, poetry, rima staines, sometimes a wild god, tom hirons, weed wife, wonder
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Light in the dark belly of winter
photo by Anna Georghiou |
photo by Michael Broad |
photo by Anna Georghiou |
photo by Michael Broad |
photo by Anna Georghiou |
photo by Anna Georghiou |
photo by Phil Bird |
photo by Anna Georghiou |
The walls rang with magic, as I'm sure you'll agree...
photo by Rose Tydeman of the Glorious Art House |
Some of my wintry work is featured (front page, back page and middle page spread, no less!) in this month's most excellently put together Doncopolitan Magazine, which champions Doncaster's growing creative arts and grassroots scenes, and can be got for free in print or online.
The Munmmers by Rima Staines |
The Unfathomable Language by Rima Staines |
Written by Rima Staines at 10:21 pm 64 words from others
Tags: a fourfold fable, art, bedford rl, christmas, clockmaking, family, foklore, hedgespoken, madonna and child, mummers, oil painting, once upon o'clock, painting, pregnancy, rima staines, saami, studio, winter