The Hermitage
Friday, 7 December 2018

New Births on the Edge of Winter

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G REETINGS to you all, should you still be here on this quietest of blogs! This is a small note to you from the depths of my busy cr...
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017

A basketful of treasure at Hibernation Time

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H UGE SKIES full of light and dark and wintering and wondering crown the granite tors of Dartmoor this November, as the mists creep in;...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Correspondence from the far off land of motherhood in a travelling theatre

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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 appea...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Tatterdemalion

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O VER THE YEARS OF BEING AN ARTIST , I have come to think of and describe my paintings as Waymarkers to the Otherworlds , as gateways, ...
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Saturday, 19 December 2015

The Wayfarer's Year

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This photograph seems to encapsulate how I feel right now. It was taken (by the wondrous Sylvia Linsteadt who came to visit! but more...
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Thursday, 17 September 2015

Wild Goddesses and Gods

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I T'S AN AEON AND A MINUTE since I stood on that shore looking out over the then unknown seas of motherhood which were to wash o...
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Light in the dark belly of winter

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  I N THE MIST OF MY STUDIO WINDOW ivy has been tracing silhouettes of cathedrals; evergreen hymns to the light in the darkne...
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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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