tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68101568515311855842024-03-18T19:58:25.657+00:00The HermitageRima Staines ~ Painter, Illustrator, Maker of Things & Teller of Tales, Librarian of the Hermitage ~ Phantasmagoria of Fancy, Museum of Myth & Realm of the Ridiculous...Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-74682663624193300022018-12-07T15:48:00.004+00:002018-12-07T15:51:39.633+00:00New Births on the Edge of Winter <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">G</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">REETINGS</span> to you all, should you still be here on this quietest of blogs!</div>
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This is a small note to you from the depths of my busy creative, mothering days as we descend into another wintering. As you might be able to see in the photo above, taken by Tom recently, I am pregnant with our second child! We await their arrival any day with tender and jubilant expectation. As this year turns into next, we will be four!</div>
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Here, I am standing with our son inside a Bronze Age hut circle on Dartmoor, marvelling at the thousands of years that have passed in that place, and
wondering about the people who made their hearths inside those stones,
who raised their children there on the high moor, who went in and out of
those doorways and whose house walls still stand, even in these strange
days at the furthest end of now.</div>
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And this brings me to tell you about something that I have been thinking
on for some time, and which now seems timely to share with you. As you
may have noticed, my painting and blogging and general artistic output
have been very quiet for the past three or so years since my son was
born. I am still wrestling with the challenges and gifts of trying to be
an artist <i>and</i> a mother, and this second child coming has caused
me to think on this more urgently, and finally to boldly ask for
support. In a world where we are connected to community across the world
in such a uniquely creative way, and at a point in my artistic life
where I feel that in order to keep making work I must call upon the
energies of those who have loved what I do for years, I have launched a<span style="color: #38761d;"> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/rimastaines" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Patreon</b></span></a></span>, which I invite you to go and read ~ it tells my tale and explains my request. </div>
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As I write over there on my <a href="https://www.patreon.com/rimastaines" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Patreon</b></span></a> page, the hope with asking for this
kind of support is that I will be able to create a regular financial
stability underneath my work at a time when it's particularly and
uniquely hard to be able to devote focused time to my artwork. If you
have enjoyed and been nourished by this blog, my posts, paintings, writing and
thoughts over the years, I would be massively grateful if you would
consider signing up to be a member of my Patreon community. You will be adding rich
black compost on these art-seeds I am planting. This is the place I will
be sharing my works in progress, artworks and writing from now on.
Those who have signed up will be able to see these, as well as choosing
from a variety of other delicious offerings...</div>
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I do have a <a href="https://rimastaines.wordpress.com/blog/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">new blog</span></a>, too, as well as a <a href="https://tinyletter.com/tilsamka" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">newsletter</span></a>, if you'd like to sign up to receive those.</div>
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And there I leave you, with warmest appreciation for your continued
interest in my work and wishes for your wintering to be both restful and
enchanted. I shall likely be quiet for a time over these dark
hibernatory days while we welcome our newest one into our family, but I
hope that with the coming of the new year and a renewed strength grown
from this <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/rimastaines" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Patreon</span></a></b> community, I will be creating more paintings and
wonders to share with you, wherever you are...</div>
Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-84485525759690510372017-11-15T19:19:00.000+00:002017-11-15T19:19:10.611+00:00A basketful of treasure at Hibernation Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">UGE SKIES</span> full of light and dark and wintering and wondering crown the granite tors of Dartmoor this November, as the mists creep in; and I return here, nearly a year on from my last post, with apologies again for this quiet, and some small pieces of artwork and news for you.</div>
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Much has happened this past year, and in time I may craft some reflections from it all. Our family is well, and our beautiful boy grows and roves and laughs through his third year on earth, stretching our hearts bigger by the day. Soon, I hope to be blogging again, in a fresh new space, but for now - here's tell of the things in my basket at the moment:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/the-storyteller-advent-calendar" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Storyteller - Advent Calendar</span></b> by Rima Staines - available here</a></td></tr>
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Firstly, here's <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/collections/on-the-shelves-from-hedgespoken-press/products/the-storyteller-advent-calendar" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Storyteller Advent Calendar</span></b></a> - a new creation of mine in watercolour. She - wise old witchwoman, tatooed and furred, sits in a snowbound place, beside a fire, her words and hands weaving magics in the cold air as folk and creatures gather round to hear. What are the stories she is telling? Well, behind the doors, as you open them throughout advent, you'll find objects from many of our favourite folktales. If you can guess all the stories, you could win an A3 signed giclée print of this painting (without the numbers). <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/the-storyteller-advent-calendar" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Here</b></span></a>'s where you can buy a calendar for yourself - we're very proud of this, and I don't think you'll find an advent calendar like it anywhere else in the world! </div>
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The painting is also available as a print <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/collections/rima-staines/products/the-storyteller-print" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></b></a>. </div>
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Another new piece created on scratchboard this year - <b><a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/collections/rima-staines/products/wolfmother" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Wolfmother</span></a></b> - shows a wintery scene of a huge mother wolf nurturing a village, and singing Russian lullabies in the snow...</div>
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Не ложися на краю.<br />
Придёт серенький волчок,<br />
Он ухватит за бочок<br />
И утащит во лесок<br />
Под ракитовый кусток.<br />
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Bayu-bayushki-bayu,<br />
Ne lozhisya na krayu.<br />
Pridyot serenkiy volchok,<br />
On ukhvatit za bochok<br />
I utashchit vo lesok<br />
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Baby, baby, rock-a-bye<br />
On the edge you mustn't lie<br />
Or the little grey wolf will come<br />
And will nip you on the tum,<br />
Tug you off into the wood<br />
Underneath the willow-root. </td></tr>
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This is available as a 7"x5" print in our <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Hedgespoken Press</b></span></a> emporium, in fact <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/collections/rima-staines" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>all my prints are now available over there</b></span></a> instead of etsy. This should make ordering our books, mp3s, posters and advent calendars alongside prints much easier, as well as saving you a bit on postage and packing. (DO go and see the other delights we have there - Tom's widely travelled and loved poem <i><a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/sometimes-a-wild-god" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Sometimes A Wild God</b></span></a> </i>with illustrations by me is available as a book, a poster and an mp3. And as a thank you to you all for supporting us, you can enter the code <b>WELCOME-TO-HEDGESPOKEN</b> to get 10% off your order until Sunday November 19th 2017! </div>
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And <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1113814/tatterdemalion/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><i>Tatterdemalion</i></b></span></a> - this wondrous collaborative creation of Sylvia Linsteadt's and mine, which you've surely heard about by now is <a href="https://shop.hedgespoken.org/collections/on-the-shelves-from-hedgespoken-press" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">also available there</span></b></a> - in the special or trade editions. I urge you to read it if you have not yet - it will change you, undo and redo you; inside it you will root and shatter, mourning and enchanted, wholly othered.</div>
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<a href="http://sylvialinsteadt.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sylvia</span></b></a> and I have collaborated again recently - in the margins of the latest publication from The Dark Mountain Project. <a href="http://shop.dark-mountain.net/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=93" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Sanctum</b></span></a> is an exquisitely beautiful book about ideas of sacredness from many perspectives. All the artwork has been made on vellum parchment created from the skin of roadkill deer. Sylvia writes about the creation of our marginal earthen-voiced sibylline interjection <a href="http://dark-mountain.net/blog/dark-mountain-issue-12-the-snake-in-the-margins/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></b></a>. </div>
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And last but not least, there are two opportunities to see my work this winter - firstly in a joint exhibition at Lowton Farm in mid Devon - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1563240357096634/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">CURIO</span></b></a> - where I will be sharing a beautiful timber framed barn-gallery space with five other amazing artists. There will be automata from <a href="http://www.fihenshall.co.uk/" target="_blank">Fi Henshall</a>, ceramic sculpture from <a href="http://claerwengillespie.com/" target="_blank">Claerwen Gillespie</a>, Printmaking and drawing from <a href="http://www.sarahcoomer.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sarah Coomer</a>, metal and wood creations from EC Osborne, and wonders in wood and bark and light and water from Jack Oakley. Do come along if you can. It's on for a week from November 18-26, open every day from 10-3, there's ample parking, and there'll be plenty of tea and homemade cake! </div>
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And then at the start of December I'll be joining my old comrades at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/879223075587848/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Chagford Winter Artisan Fayre</span></b></a> - which is always a very lovely event.</div>
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I can't believe how the wheel of the turning years finds me here again at this potent dark time, trying to weave together all the threads of my life as we step out on our road - travelling, homing, creating, learning, mothering, partnering, living, loving, changed and yet the same.</div>
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<br />Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-27711881534894688072017-02-15T22:40:00.000+00:002017-02-15T22:40:53.878+00:00Correspondence from the far off land of motherhood in a travelling theatreDear 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!<br />
I have, however, written over at the <b><a href="http://hedgespoken.org/">Hedgespoken</a></b> blog about our year just gone, and all the stories therein. Please do go and have a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://hedgespoken.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/nailing-our-colours-to-the-mast/">read</a></span></b>, there are photos galore and more. And I will write again here, before too long, I hope.<br />
Be well in these strange days, friends afar, I send you warm greetings from the winter hedgerows.<br />
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As the signmaker, I don't usually have any idea (or control over) where my paintings take people, or what happens when they get there. But four years ago, one traveller to these otherworlds followed my painted signposts and came back with her story. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><a href="http://www.wildtalewort.net/">Sylvia Linsteadt</a></span></b>, as many of you know, is a writer of great talent, who has an incredible ability to conjure the beautiful and uncanny and barely-seen wild worlds which shiver at the periphery of our perception. Four years ago she began writing the stories of the worlds my paintings took her to, and when she sent them to me, I was blown away. Her work is lyrical and profound, folkloric and unique, and for me, these stories were so moving to read - so familiar and yet so new. We knew we had to make a book.</div>
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These past years have seen these stories grow and enmesh and they have become what we are calling a post-apocalyptic mosaic folktale. A back-to front book which began with the illustrations, a tale of wheeled and raggedy folk, of edge-dwellers and shape-shifters, itinerants and wild ones, and their imagined futures in a world after the breaking we are currently living through.</div>
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A perfect meeting of arts and souls, and a book born of it on this day of new beginnings. Sylvia and I met at last in the flesh last October; she came from her native Northern California (where the book is set), to visit us and stomp the tors and woods and Dartmoor's bronze age relics with us, to share our hearth and breathe these winds for a while. It was a wonderful meeting, which seemed to have happened long ago already. </div>
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And while she was here, our book was taken up by a publisher. Unbound is a publisher very suited to this tale: it is liminal and powered by its readers, it is back to front and supportive of the unusual. Which means that this book cannot be without you! To preorder your copy and find your way to this utterly wonderful, strange and necessary Otherworld - bejewelled and ragged, rooted and sung - click on the image below! </div>
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Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-6421503168533620222015-12-19T15:18:00.000+00:002015-12-19T15:18:20.577+00:00The Wayfarer's Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photograph seems to encapsulate how I feel right now. It was taken (by the wondrous<span style="color: #134f5c;"> <a href="http://wildtalewort.com/"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sylvia Linsteadt</span></a></span> who came to visit! but more of that another time) in the early autumn sun as I strode across September-coloured Dartmoor with my baby boy on my back. This has been the most treasured and difficult of all the years of my life so far. I have had to learn to be a mother whilst we totally reconfigure our life. Building our <a href="http://hedgespoken.org/"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Hedgespoken</span></a> home and travelling theatre has taken all the energy we could muster and then it has kept on taking. And I continue to be stretched in more than three dimensions by the challenges and alchemys and incandescent joys of motherhood. Nevertheless I seem to keep on striding, and my back continues to hold strong enough for the weight it carries. </div>
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My creative life burns clear, though its outlets are small and fleeting. I draw when my boy sleeps and gradually have managed to work enough into the (many) dark hours with a biro and my head torch to create a perpetual calendar -<span style="color: #134f5c;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/the-wayfarers-year-a-perpetual-calendar-wall-frieze-by-rima-staines"><b>The Wayfarer's Year</b></a></span> </span>- a kind of wall frieze showing the passing seasons as a traveller's road (the year) winds through them. It is printed on recycled card and folds out to a 12-month art piece. You can buy them for £12.50 in the Hedgespoken shop <a href="http://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/the-wayfarers-year-a-perpetual-calendar-wall-frieze-by-rima-staines"><span style="color: #134f5c;">here</span></a>, or on etsy <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/259647844/the-wayfarers-year-perpetual-calendar?ref=shop_home_feat_3"><span style="color: #134f5c;">here</span></a>. They'll be good for any year or any time of year, of course!</div>
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This little painting is titled <i><b>Incantation Under a Winter Sun</b> </i>- another small creative achievement in the baby-sleeping moments. It is a prize in our <a href="https://hedgespoken.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/the-hedgespoken-winter-raffle-2015/"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Hedgespoken Winter Raffle</span></a>, for which tickets are available <a href="http://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/hedgespoken-winter-raffle-ticket"><span style="color: #134f5c;">here</span></a> - you could own this original painting for just £1!</div>
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The sun seems far off now, our days are mud-drenched and rain-splattered
and fog-hidden. Each trip to collect water is slippery and my bones
ache with tiredness. We are still not in the truck, though another year
turns, and expectations and plans must be readjusted. How do you stay
positive whilst the challenges of uncoupling from a former life and
building a new one mount? The dream must continue to be kindled, which
is hard in these damp, dark days. I can't quite believe that my baby is
10 months old (and crawling!), and that Christmas is just days away!
From within the fog and the slog of this year, a bright fire still
burns, and I carry its embers over the threshold into 2016, a stronger
and utterly changed woman from the one I was last year-cusp, and holding in my heart and arms the most golden of all things in my life: my son.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">T'S AN AEON AND A MINUTE</span>
since I stood on that shore looking out over the then unknown seas of
motherhood which were to wash over me just a few days after this photo
was taken. And now my baby boy, deepest joy of my heart, is nearly 7
months old! Words feel strange on my tongue and under my fingers, it
will take me a while yet to find good ones to weave around this new
story of motherhood in all its depths, and the Rima that writes this now
is a different one from the young woman looking out to sea there. But I
am starting to feel a creative spring as the autumn falls on us in
Dartmoor, and I am wondering how I might continue working as an artist
whilst mothering. I feel all of you out there wondering at our news too,
though spending time near a computer has proved almost impossible for
me so far, so different are the ways of being required to be with my
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Much
has been happening in our life and work since I was last here. Since
the momentous Becoming-Three which happened at the end of February when
snows were still falling, we've moved through spring and summer and
we've left house life behind, selling many of our belongings in a rainy
but enjoyable yard sale, and we've moved into a 16 foot yurt near to
where the truck build is happening. I have work in three exhibitions, <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.obsidianart.co.uk/exhibitions/hannahwillow.html">Hannah Willow & Friends</a></span> at Obsidian Art in Buckinghamshire, a wondrous new gallery in Portland, Oregon: <a href="http://www.ferniebrae.com/">The Fernie Brae</a>, and a winter show yet to come in our local <a href="http://greenhillarts.org/">Green Hill Arts</a>
Gallery in Moretonhampstead, Devon. All of this feels quite amazing
given that I've hardly made any art all year! We have been out with my
red handcart - a lovely creation made by our friend Eric from old doors
and bicycle wheels from a drawing I gave him - selling my work on the
streets of Totnes.<br />
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The truck build continues in its wonderful slow and majestic way, we hope to have an update on its progress soon over at <a href="https://hedgespoken.org/"><span style="color: #990000;">Hedgespoken</span></a>. During all the welding and decision-making and wood-planing and painting and hammering, a filmmaker from Germany, <a href="http://marieelisascheidt.com/"><span style="color: #990000;">Marie Elisa Scheidt</span></a>,
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 <i>Our Wildest Dreams</i>, and which you can see glimpses of <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Our-Wildest-Dreams-821869441201861/timeline/">here</a>.</span> These two pictures below, taken earlier in the year, when both babe and truck-home were not quite so grown, are by her.</div>
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living with the leaves again, though different and harder with a baby,
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But
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baby, and of this I am immensely proud. When Tom and I first met, we
planned to make a book together; and five years later, having first
created an even more incredible being together, we've finally made our
first book - a small and beautiful chapbook, litho-printed on recycled
paper by a workers' coop - this is <i>Sometimes A Wild God</i>, Tom's
widely-loved poem, illustrated with six little ink drawings by me, which
I did at night when little one was finally sleeping, though I wanted so
much to be sleeping too... it was hard, and I felt very out of
practice, but the constraints have forced a new kind of work out of me,
and I think this is an interesting beginning. I hope you'll all go and
have a look, you can order one for £7.50 from anywhere in the world at the <a href="http://shop.hedgespoken.org/products/sometimes-a-wild-god"><span style="color: #990000;">Hedgespoken Shop</span></a>.
We are really proud of this, and excited that it heralds for us a new
chapter of book making. But we need you all to support this endeavour by
buying copies, spreading the word for us, and asking for it in your
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hasn't been for sale, I have felt it a deeply special painting and have
been unsure how to put a price on it. However, we're now at a crucial
point with our truck build, and struggling to make ends meet now that my
income has all but disappeared. So, I am considering for the first time
selling this painting if the right person comes along and offers me a
sum I feel I could exchange it for. If you feel that might be you,
please get in touch and let me know how much you might be willing to pay
for it, and we can take it from there. I'd love for it to end up in
some Herbal library or Wilderness school or somesuch, but perhaps you
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There is so very much to tell you, I don't know where to begin, and
finding the right thread of story and secret is hard. I don't want to
put pictures of my boy all over the internet, nor write his name, so
these are just glimpses of back of head and little feet. But I do want
to share some of my experiences as I go along, and hear from those of
you amazing women who have gone before me, mothering and making art,
mothering and living on the edges of things. I have a new-found awe for
all women who do this most sacred of tasks. From the deep love and
profound tiredness I salute you! </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">N THE MIST OF MY STUDIO WINDOW</span> ivy has been tracing silhouettes of cathedrals; evergreen hymns to the light in the darkness of winter, in which we are now fully planted. I have sat there at my work table, or at the drawing board, or knelt on the floor, painting ferociously for many many weeks in preparation for <b><a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-fourfold-fable.html"><span style="color: #cc0000;">A Fourfold Fable</span></a></b> - a joint exhibition of Devon-based mythic painting in Exeter, which took place at the beginning of December. Not only have I been busy with the particular creativity and organisation that goes into making an exhibition, but Tom and I have expended a super-human amount of energy birthing <a href="https://hedgespoken.wordpress.com/"><i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hedgespoken</span></b></i></a> - our long-awaited and long-dreamed plan to create a home and travelling vagabond theatre on our vintage Bedford RL truck. For those who have been following the past momentous two months, you'll be rejoicing with us at our frankly mind-bloggling success and the utterly wonderful throngs of support we have gathered along the way. Steering a successful crowdfunding campaign has been more work than we could ever have imagined, and we are thrilled at the dream that has become tangible thanks to all of our supporters, and equally utterly exhausted; the reality of what has been achieved is only slowly dawning on us through the veils of tiredness. This project will continue to grow over the winter and into spring, and if you'd like to follow the progress, you can do so over at the <a href="https://hedgespoken.wordpress.com/blog-posts/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hedgespoken blog</span></a>. So far, our wonder-wagon looks like this:</div>
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Stories and motifs meandered around the walls in and out of the works of four artists, whom many visitors assumed were just one painter! We mixed our works in the space, creating a myth-rich storybook of colour and tone, and were thoroughly pleased with the result. One visitor suggested we should call ourselves <i>The Fabulists!</i></div>
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We took turns in sitting with the paintings every day for two weeks and in that time met many lovely folks and had lots of fascinating conversations about art and magic and the threads that link them. Thanks to all who came to support us and dwell in our otherworlds for a while.</div>
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Many good things have been brewing in the cauldron this winter. What with one thing and another, I've not managed to list all my new works in the shop in time for Christmas, I'm sorry. But be sure to look out in the new year for many new cards and prints and paintings, both here and in the etsy shop, a few of which I'll share with you here below now.<br />
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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/doncopolitan"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Doncopolitan Magazine</span></a>, which champions Doncaster's growing creative arts and grassroots scenes, and can be got for free in print or online.</div>
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Those of you who have bought my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/214108204/the-hermitage-2015-calendar?ref=shop_home_feat_2"><span style="color: #cc0000;">2015 calendar</span></a> this year will have seen this little birch painting on the month of December.</div>
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It's a<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <a href="http://www.rimastaines.com/clocks"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Once Upon O'Clock</span></a></span>, painted for Assia Alexandrova in Hollywood, who asked for a Lappish-styled winter goddess... and so I painted this - a reindeer-riding Winter Queen, Mother of the North, holding her baby in a traditional Saami cradle, flying over a sickle moon through a blue icicled and snowflaked winter sky.</div>
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As part of my pre-exhibition panting frenzy, I also decided to experiment with a more painterly technique in oils on paper.<br />
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Under the earth, the land-mother sleeps, her belly swollen with growing seed, with golden light. Over her, a winter landscape lies blanketing the promise below. A band of masked mummers dance through a snow-capped village, bringing their music to wake the sleeping one under the ground. </div>
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And third and last in this collection of folk-madonnas, this little painting used a piece of wood I found in a skip, already treated with green colour, which I rather liked and so decided not to paint over.</div>
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For this one I returned to my more typical thinly-applied oils, and enjoyed the simplicity of the portrait. I had a gilded frame ready for this too, which I had found in a second-hand shop, and which you'll have seen in the exhibition photos above.</div>
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The mother and her child emerged, smiling...</div>
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Between them something grew. An umbilical understanding, a love profounder than the roots and the stars, an Unfathomable Language.</div>
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And by now, I am sure you'll have guessed the most important of all my projects brewing over these past months, the inspiration behind these paintings and my fervent creative frenzy, and the reason for my extra layers of tiredness. </div>
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Yes, a wonder beyond words in my belly, precious and unfathomable indeed.</div>
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I haven't felt to share very much of this private thread of my life here, and don't know how much I'll want to do so as the little person steps into this roaring beautiful world either, but I wanted to let you know the reason for my quiet here, which I'm afraid will only get louder come February when our lives will be changed forever... </div>
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Two thousand and fifteen promises much adventure for us, as both new parenthood and a story-rich and hedge-spoken life on wheels beckon. I look forward to sharing the wonders and the tales with you as we go. Meanwhile, I send warmest greetings to all of you who are mothering golden seeds in the dark earths of your winters, and wish you joyous green sprouting as the light returns.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">HE HERMITAGE 2015 CALENDAR IS HERE!</span> This year, my calendar is bigger (by popular demand) - there's more room to write in the days' doings. And it contains some never-before seen paintings! As before, the old English full and dark moons (for UK & US) are marked and named (<i>Wolf Moon, Harvest Moon, Blood Moon, Egg Moon, Flower Moon...</i>), and the solstices, equinoxes, and quarter festivals are in there too. The whole beautiful calendrical layout has been done marvellously by <a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Tom</span></a>, and we're having them printed again at the excellent <a href="http://www.footprinters.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Footprint Workers' Coop</span></a> in Leeds, on 100% recycled paper, and featuring a riso-printed front and back cover. I think you'll love this one even more than last year's, so I urge you to grab one whilst you still can! As you'll remember from last year, these sold out super-fast, many people missed out, and I had to do three print runs. This time, my calendar is only available (for now) as a perk in the wonderful caravan that is our <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Hedgespoken Campaign</b></span></a>! Ordering one this way counts as a pre-order which we'll post out at the end of November. I may be selling some after the crowdfunder is over, but those I can't guarantee will reach you by Christmas. For only £30, you get this unique and artful calendar (postage included), and you get to support the making of our travelling dream! Roll up! <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken/contributions/new?perk_amt=30&perk_id=2361925"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Click here</span></a> </b></span>to claim yours now!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>An exhibition of mythic paintings </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>by four Devon artists</i></span></h3>
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">✦ <a href="http://www.artannageorghiou.info/home#0"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Anna Georghiou</span></a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;">✦ <a href="http://www.michaelbroad.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Michael Broad</span></a></span></span></b></div>
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This winter, four mythic artists working from studios in the heart of Devon will be bringing their storied and otherworldly paintings to <b><a href="http://www.theglorious.co.uk/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Glorious Art House</span></a></b> in Exeter.<br />
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For two weeks, as the nights draw in, you are invited to join us in the upstairs gallery on Fore Street for this extraordinary exhibition of visual storytelling and have uncanny enchantments reignited in the hearth of your old heart.</div>
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Original paintings, framed and unframed prints, cards, handmade items and more available to buy. Plus three floors of coffee, tea and delicious food!</div>
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Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 07.30-18.00 Sun: 10.00 - 16.00<br />
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I'm very excited to be exhibiting with three other incredible painters who also dip their paintbrushes into the pigments of the otherworlds. The <i><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1391564464467073/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fourfold Fable</span></a></b></i> exhibition will be held in the gallery on the top floor of the wonderfully colourful Glorious Art House in central Exeter. It's a warm and friendly cafe too, serving excellent coffee, tea and food, and we'd so love it if you could come and join us! You'll find one or more of us in the exhibition space every day, so do please feel free to come and chat and enjoy the fabulous view over the city of Exeter.</div>
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First, I want to introduce you to <a href="http://www.artannageorghiou.info/home#0"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Anna Georghiou</span></a> and <a href="http://www.artmusephilbird.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Phil Bird</span></a> - an artist couple (also <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user791681280"><span style="color: #cc0000;">talented musicians</span></a> - see their music site <a href="http://www.troubadoursgarden.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Troubadour's Garden</span></a>) living and working in Okehampton, Devon, whose work just blew me away the first time I laid eyes upon it. I felt I'd found kindred art-spirits; both Phil and Anna's paintings are full to the brim with story and peopled with soulful and uncanny beings. I was lucky enough to visit their home and studios recently and I share here some photos from my enchanted time in their Aladdin's cave of creativity.</div>
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<a href="http://www.artannageorghiou.info/home#0"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Anna Georghiou</span></a> has lived and worked in Cyprus, where she has family connections, and you can see the wonderful clarity of Mediterranean land and myth woven into her beautiful timeless works. She can spend years on a single painting, coming back to work on it again and again over time. Her works are large and textural in their painterliness. There is a powerful narrative shared amongst the people in her paintings, and the colours sing with light from distant skies.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Calling by Anna Georghiou</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Blessing by Anna Georghiou</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Close up of painting in Anna's studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>paints!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><i>Anna's studio in Cyprus</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Anna's Devon studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>painting by Anna Georghiou</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Anna at exhibition in Slovenia, 2008</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><i>Anna's studio</i></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.artmusephilbird.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Phil Bird</span></a>'s paintings are incredible layered narratives rooted in a deep visionary realm. Phil works on many paintings at once, and has a long career as an artist, spanning varying styles. These days his wonder-full paintings are small canvases, bursting with otherworldly stories, glorious colour, texture and myth. I find them utterly compelling.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Imaginary Constellations by Phil Bird</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phil's Devon studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Detail of painting by Phil Bird</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Looking toward Phil's studio, detail of his painting in foreground</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phil's Devon studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Detail of painting by Phil Bird</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phil's studio and paintings hanging on the wall</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Phil in his Cyprus studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Voodoo Hat by Phil Bird</i></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.michaelbroad.co.uk/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Michael Broad</span></a> is a painter, book illustrator and writer. His picture books have been nominated for the Kate Greenaway medal and shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the Nottingham Children's Book Award. He works from his studio in Exeter, and also explores themes of folklore and myth in his paintings. When I came across Michael's work for the first time, I felt I'd found another kindred storyteller in paint. His beings have a lovely melancholy and a sweet tenderness to them, and the beautiful night-time world of his paintings conjures a vivid and magical dream-sense of the world which shimmers just alongside this one.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nocturnal Birds with Golden Gown by Michael Broad</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Michael's studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Feeding the Wild One by Michael Broad </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Michael at work in his studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Michael's studio with current paintings in progress for the Fourfold Fable exhibition</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Current work on Michael's easel</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Night Procession by Michael Broad</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Watcher and the Comet by Michael Broad</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Groom by Michael Broad</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Chair and the Crowd by Michael Broad</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Secret by Michael Broad - exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2014</i></td></tr>
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And so lastly, I come to my own work, with which you are all familiar, but which you can peruse at <a href="http://www.rimastaines.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">my website</span></a>, should you be new here! In the spirit of sharing studio photos, I'll show you a few glimpses of my studio-through-a-trapdoor, which I have thoroughly loved inhabiting this past year. There are occasional peeks of work in progress, but for the grand unveiling of yet-to be seen paintings, you'll have to come to the exhibition!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Alchemist by Rima Staines</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima's Dartmoor studio</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Come Away O Human Child - oil painted wooden clock by Rima Staines</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Dark Mountain by Rima Staines</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima's Dartmoor studio - in spring!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima's Dartmoor studio - drawing board in sunlight</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima in studio mirror</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima's Dartmoor studio - puppet carving in progress</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Weed Wife by Rima Staines</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rima paints The Weed Wife</i></td></tr>
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If you're local (or even a train-ride away!) and would like to come to the opening, please drop me an email. We'd all be most grateful if you could share this with friends and art lovers who might fancy a trip to the West Country this December; there'll be lots of small items, prints and cards and suchlike to buy too, if an original painting is beyond your budget. Feel free to share the flyer (above) and poster (below), and put these dates - <b>29th Nov - 12th Dec 2014</b> - in your diaries for an early winter feast for the imagination...</div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;"><i>"Wheels have turned in my life since before I can remember. The characters in my paintings are wheeled, their houses are wheeled; my stories are wheeled. Handcarts and wagons and caravans have always drawn my eyes, in that urgent, beautiful way a well-loved colour or a certain kind of face stands out in a crowd. Wheels call to me even louder if they have a door, a window or a chimney atop them. Something about the combination of vehicle and house sets my blood thrilling..."</i></span></div>
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Come and <a href="http://hedgespoken.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/wayfaring/"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>read the whole piece at the Hedgespoken blog</b></span></a> - it tells of the whys and ways of my love and yearning for the travelling life, with many pictures!Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-36942155248314979092014-10-16T21:16:00.000+01:002014-10-16T23:07:28.596+01:00Hedgespoken<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">NCE UPON A TIME</span>, there was an artist, a storyteller and a 1960's Bedford RL lorry... They lived in troubled times – sometimes it seemed like the magic had all run out of the world and all that was left was distraction and strife. So they decided to make something amazing, a device for spreading beauty and kindling imaginations, a spectacular creation to reignite the old enchantments hiding at the edges of things, and bring wonder back into the greying world. And so, they created <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken"><span style="color: #38761d;">HEDGESPOKEN... A vehicle for the imagination</span></a>!</i></div>
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Yes, friends and fellow travellers near and far and in-between, it's true! We are taking to the road again in our beautiful Bedford RL truck, but this time, it will not just be a home on wheels, it will also be a travelling wonder-wagon, a purveyor of tales and uncanny beauty, of hedge-theatre and woodsmoked enchantments! </div>
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As you will remember, we bought this beautiful Bedford a couple of years ago now, but the seed of <i>Hedgespoken</i> has been germinating since the very first time Tom and I met and conjured the idea of it into being. Now, its time has come. The hedges are calling to us louder than ever before, and we long for a life more filled with blackbird song and morning dew and starlit story. </div>
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Our dream is to build a home on the back of this truck that will also be an off-grid travelling theatre. It will boast a fold-down stage on the side (which can double as a porch on which we can sit and drink our morning cups of tea). This will be a performance space for all sorts of our own and others' puppety-theatrical-storytelling unfurlings - we will travel with it to waysides and village greens, to disused urban spaces and wild misted hillsides. And there we will endeavour to call in once again the magic that hides at the edges of things and to reawaken a circus in people's hearts.</div>
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This is the truck we fell in love with two years ago - a 1960s ex-military auxiliary fire service truck. Four wheel drive, with only 7000 miles on the clock, oak-backed, and in immaculate condition! </div>
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It's the kind of truck that people stop and smile at as it goes by, and I'm sure you'll agree that it smiles back most fetchingly!</div>
The dreaming has been taking place in our hearts and sketchbooks for months and months now...<br />
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And with the turning of the year into Autumn, this dream is becoming more tangible...</div>
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In order to make Hedgespoken manifest, we are calling on people - on all of <i>you -</i> to <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken/x/8665286"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">join us on this adventure</span></b></a>, to play a part in our wonder-story and help us to make this dream a reality. We cannot do it alone, and so in return for some truly delicious perks, you can support the <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken/x/8665286"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Hedgespoken Crowdfunding Campaign</b></span></a> and help to make sure we get this show on the road!</div>
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At the top of this post, you'll have seen the fantastic little film that we made with the help of our amazing creative community and filmmaker extraordinaire Annabel Allison of <a href="http://waxfilms.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Wax Films</span></a>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lovely Lily. Photo by Rachel Basham</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tom</span></a> tells tales. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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A few weeks ago we put out a call for folks to come in their vagabond-circus finery, to gather under the trees to make our film. And they did us proud! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lily on horseback. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://rimastaines.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Rima</span></a> plays squeezebox in the driving seat. Photo by <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lunar Hine</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Owl Maddy. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma puts on her circus paint. Photo by <a href="http://suzi-crockford.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Suzi Crockford</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rachel and <a href="http://www.sharifadams.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sharif</span></a> enjoying after-filming food & fire. Photo by <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lunar Hine</span></a></td></tr>
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They came bedecked in feather and mask and antler, they came in their patchwork coats and on horseback, in moons and owls and top hats and wings, with ouds and drums and puppets, and they danced for the camera and afterwards we ate food around the fire. Annabel directed us with expertise and humour and what you see above is the result of many hours of her hard work and our vision. I do hope you enjoy it. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.waxfilms.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Annabel</span></a> at work. Photo by <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lunar Hine</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young'uns conspire. Photo by Rachel Basham</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Moon & family. Owen, <a href="http://artofvirginialee.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Virginia</span></a> and Marja. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vagabond accessories. Photo by <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lunar Hine</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://coyopa.net/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tom</span></a> tells more tales. Photo by Ruth Olley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://artofvirginialee.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Virginia</span></a>'s amazing Moon. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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We found it very nerve-wracking speaking to camera, and I don't think I'll be taking up a career as a TV presenter any time soon, but nevertheless I think it really works, we're delighted with the result and I hope you'll be inspired and enchanted in turns, and feel compelled by our wonky magic to share this film and the campaign far and wide!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dance begins. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lily. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Circus! Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma and Ruth at the fire. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://manymanymoonsarts.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Joanna</span></a> the Deer. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruth and <a href="http://www.jasonofengland.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Jason</span></a> and everyone else looking amazing. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tools of the trade. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Musicians play. <a href="http://manymanymoonsarts.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Joanna</span></a> the Deer dances. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vagabonds discuss (<a href="http://www.sharifadams.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sharif</span></a>, <a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tom</span></a> & <a href="http://endicottstudio.typepad.com/howardgayton/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Howard</span></a>). Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashley teaches Fynn some magic. Photo by <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Terri Windling</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lunching circus is serenaded by <a href="http://www.fairyharp.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Elizabeth-Jane</span></a>'s beautiful harp playing. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lily on horseback. Photo by Steve Earp</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ROUND MY NECK</span> hangs an amulet - a magic thing wrought by me in metal and stone! </div>
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I've always had a love of ancient talismanic jewellery made from the less precious metals, and often marvelled at the wonders of adornment made by peoples the world over in a book I was given as a youngster by my parents one birthday: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Splendour-Ethnic-Jewelry-Jean-Pierre/dp/0500016402"><span style="color: #b45f06;">The Splendour of Ethnic Jewellery</span></a></i>. But I've never had the chance to actually create something in the medium of metal, so this birthday just gone, my <a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Tom</span></a> arranged as a gift for me to spend a day in the studio with my dear friend Miriam Boy of <a href="http://silverandmoor.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-gallery.html"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Silver & Moor</span></a>, a local silversmith who as well as working on her own beautiful creations for neck and wrist and finger, offers a wonderful <a href="http://www.weddingringsdevon.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Make Your Own Wedding Ring</span></a> workshop down here in Devon, where couples can book to spend the day under Miriam's expert tutelage and make their own (or each other's) rings for their day of betrothal. Occasionally people ask to make things other than rings with her, as did I. True to my particular creative nature, I spent a long time before the day designing my piece, which was to be an amulet to mark and symbolise certain things very personal to me. I pored over books of symbols and arcana, and learned about the amuletic power in arts and objects, returning often to a favourite book of mine: <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amulets-World-Secret-Powers-Charms/dp/0500285101/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412363415&sr=1-2&keywords=amulets+sheila+paine"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Amulets: A World of Secret Powers, Charms & Magic</span></a></i> by Sheila Paine, which is illustrated lavishly with photographs throughout. Eventually, I had a design I was happy with and arrived on the pre-arranged morning at Miriam's cozy studio over a shop on the village square. </div>
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Through the door is the studio of neighbouring artist of stitch - Angharad Barlow of <a href="http://www.atelierbee.com/art/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Atelier Bee</span></a> (who came in during my creating process at opportune moments to take lovely photos!) </div>
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Miriam's completed pieces are on display in a glass cabinet, though they don't stay there too long, as her jewellery is snapped up almost faster than she can make it!</div>
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When I first showed Miriam my design, she did this with her hands, and told me this ambitious creation would take me a <i>lot</i> longer than a day!</div>
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But together we mulled over the options and techniques, and talked about the metals and stones I wanted to use, finding ways round complications and feeling like we were setting out on an adventure!</div>
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I began by cutting out the shapes of metal I wanted in my design. I used a variety of metals - here I'm sawing the tiny hand motif from sheet bronze with a saw blade so fine that I broke it about 8 times!<br />
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I laid out the elements I had so far, building the whole picture. Here you can see the backing of brass, a smaller silver section on top, with the bronze hand and the two stones I had brought to set in my amulet - one, a piece of seaglass, washed into a perfect sphere by the sea, and found by me as a girl, and the other a piece of Dartmoor granite.</div>
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Some of the metal could be cut with shears.<br />
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Then came the first soldering process - a magic of fire and flux and luck! Here Miriam is making a flux paste by grinding the cone of borax in a little water.</div>
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I cut tiny pieces of silver solder, of the hardest grade (there were four grades of solder; we had to make sure that once a piece was soldered it didn't melt again in the heat of another soldering, hence the varying grades of heat required to melt the silver.)</div>
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And painted flux over the sanded clean surfaces to be joined.<br />
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Then the tiny pieces of solder are laid on<br />
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More pieces of metal are soldered on - this time, small diamonds of copper<br />
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I love how the piece gradually acquires a patina from heating and cooling, from caramelizing flux enamel, and the mere rigours of the process. Next I make the border by cutting and hammering the brass backing over.</div>
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This is quite fiddly<br />
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And that ends one whole day of work! I leave the evening studio excited for the next days of creating, and invigorated by learning this entirely new craft! Miriam generously let me return to her studio until I had finished the piece, and guided me when I was stuck whilst working on several of her own pieces in the time it took me to make one.</div>
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Day two began with making a minute copper dish in which to set the glass sphere. The dish was Miriam's idea - in order to show off the glass's unique spherical shape. This too was very fiddly, and I had to curve the copper by hammering it with domed hammer tools into a concave.</div>
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Then for more soldering. This time the hand.<br />
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And the attaching of a thin brass strip for part of the border which we thought would be a simple task but in fact proved to be very infuriating indeed, and took many many attempts to get the small piece of brass to attach to the silver.</div>
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The more times we heated it under the flame, the more patinas and colours emerged across the metal's surface.<br />
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Then (by now, day three!) it was time to solder on the wee copper dish, but before that I had to do some engraving using a fine Dremel and a Steady Hand. I didn't manage to get any photos of this due to my hands being otherwise occupied at the time, but we decided it was best to engrave before soldering on any obstacles.</div>
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The amulet was slowly taking shape...</div>
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Next I made a copper bezel for the little piece of granite and soldered that in place too.</div>
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And then it was the fourth day! I made the face from copper wire which I hammered flat and bent with pliers. Another great fiddle! The tiny copper balls at the top were made from small scraps of copper heated under the blowtorch until the surface tension in the melting metal causes them to ping into a sphere! It's quite magic to watch.</div>
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These tiny pieces all had to be soldered on in one go without them moving about or attaching in the wrong position.<br />
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It was really important to apply heat resistant paste to the parts already done so as not to unsolder them!</div>
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More ferocious flames and delicate placing of pieces...<br />
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Day four was stretching into evening and Miriam and I were determined to finish the piece that day, no matter how late we stayed at the studio! We had talked through many subjects and stories and had both learnt a lot about each other and about jewellery making! Now I made a hammered brass attachment for the hanging...</div>
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It took many attempts to get this piece to attach, as we couldn't risk heating the piece from below where all the precious work was held. </div>
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Sometimes we tried heating the solder before placing the hanging piece on. So many beautiful colours in the flames.<br />
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And finally, finally it took!</div>
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I thought the back looked almost as beautiful as the front! You can see the small doorway-shaped hole I drilled through the hand at an earlier stage as part of the design.</div>
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Now all that remained was to sand and polish some (a lot!) more, and then set the stones, which was for very last.</div>
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Though I love a battered and worn patina on things, patient sanding and polishing brought out a wonderful shine and made my eyes sparkle with that innate gem-glee that even us muted-colour-wearing lovers-of-the-old-and-weathered cannot suppress when it takes hold!</div>
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Dark had descended outside the studio windows, but inside, magic was happening.</div>
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Last of all came the stone setting. A delicate art of pushing and coaxing the thin copper housings round the uneven granite and the sea-smooth glass ball.</div>
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And then it was done. An amulet of power. A piece of jewellery unlike any other I own, both because of what it is and because I know what went into it. I look at other pieces of jewellery now with a new-found awe! These four days spent with Miriam and the files and hammers and solder and tongs and blowtorches and silver and brass and copper and bronze will stay with me always - an utterly unforgettable experience of forging my own piece of magic with flame and hand. I am so grateful to Miriam for sharing with me her time and space and tools and patience and skill so that I could bring this unique creation to life (and also for making me a lovely copper clasp to join the leather thong on which the amulet hangs).</div>
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The amulet hangs round my neck with a never-before-experienced weight that is due to its inherent potency rather than the actual grams of metal. I find my hands and eyes drawn to it constantly. It contains so much more than the sum of its parts, and I love that it might be dug up one day in the peat of Dartmoor, by peoples unimaginable to us here now; perhaps there are trees on the moor again by then, perhaps the people here in that time have found a way to live <i>with</i> the land rather than <i>in spite</i> of it, and perhaps they will wonder at the woman of the past century who made and wore this silvered spell set with signs and stones of land and sea.</div>
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These watercolours were done as part of a collaborative project between myself and my good friend, the Scotland-based poet <a href="http://emstrang.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #45818e;">Em Strang</span></a>. Her poems are wonderful - wild and gentle, quiet and frightening, and I was delighted with the prospect of making images to go with them. </div>
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But here's the thing - illustrating poetry is really hard! A poem, when it really works and has power, makes its images in your imaginal realm, where they can flit and morph as such images should, just beyond the reach of gravity and the crushing weight of collapsing the wave function. Knowing this, it was very hard not to step on the toes of the poem, and to illustrate but still leave space for the unsaid.</div>
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Thus I painted outside of my usual edged style, losing myself to the chance happenings in the watercolour, trying to find the hook in each poem that caught my heart.</div>
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I ended up with strange images, some of which I really like, and some of which I'm less sure about, but all of which feel very outside my comfort zone.</div>
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Having talked it over with Em, we both agreed that these images weren't quite what the poems were asking for, though neither of us know quite what are.</div>
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I shall try again one of these days, perhaps, to track down that elusive animal in these beautiful poems, and record its pawprint in paint.</div>
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Meanwhile, I continue my learning of what it is to really <i>illustrate </i>words, making companion images that work alongside the poem or story, but do not duplicate it or reveal a mystery that needs to stay hidden.</div>
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For now, I have put these little paintings up for sale, along with a few other original paintings and drawings <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/thehermitage?section_id=5691969&ref=shopsection_leftnav_3"><span style="color: #45818e;">in my shop</span></a>.</div>
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I'd love to hear your thoughts about these images, and about your experiences - both success and failure - of illustrating poetry.</div>
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And do sniff out the wonderful work of Em Strang, as well as on her <a href="http://emstrang.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #45818e;">blog</span></a>, she has a few pieces of writing and poetry at the <a href="http://dark-mountain.net/author/em-strang/"><span style="color: #45818e;">Dark Mountain site</span></a> and in the books. In October she will also be running a weekend writing workshop in Cumbria with <a href="http://www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk/"><span style="color: #45818e;">Susan Richardson</span></a> ~ <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #45818e;"><i><span id="goog_1272182933"></span>Writing Root & Claw</i></span></a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>O YOU REMEMBER the days when the buttercups danced across the fields, when the sun was so high in the sky, and the summer days flew by like the swallows, here only for a bit, beautiful in their joyous flight? Having been blessed with two summers this year, this last one caught me unawares, working hard, and thinking there would still be more time to swim in rivers and visit the sea when all these <i>things</i> had been ticked off the list. Well, it seems there wasn't! </div>
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Summer is now ending in a delightful September haze of late warmth, and I've sniffed gladly the autumn on the breeze. But how chaotic and bright and outward the summer always is! I always find it harder to focus on the more tranquil inner tasks of sitting long hours at the drawing board or keeping up blog posts in those heady fiery days. Spring and Autumn - the transition seasons - are much more conducive to a productive and inwardly creative space for me. Summer and its colder opposite seem to be fuelled, on the other hand, with gatherings of friends and more outward exposing of my creative life - fairs, exhibitions and the like.</div>
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Nevertheless, we've been up to all sorts of marvellous, colourful, and artful things this summer, which I've not yet managed to tell you about (or even, for that matter, take stock of myself). So here is a summery summary... (you might need a large pot of tea)</div>
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Way back in May, when those beloved white blossoms were frothing the hedgerows like the first summer waves, we travelled, as every year, to our favourite fair: <a href="http://weirdandwonderfulwood.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Weird & Wonderful Wood</span></a>, in Suffolk.</div>
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I was pitched next to the beautiful waggons of Candy Sheridan and family.</div>
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And this year, I also had with me a few of <a href="http://staines-sculptors.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">my father's woodcarvings</span></a> to display.</div>
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It was very hard to choose which works to take, as my parents' house is filled with incredible sculptures of varying styles and media, made by both of them over many years. These are a few small wood carvings, as befits a wood fair. The three small figures at the front are medieval characters - a miller, a musician, and a wayfarer. Behind them stands a woman holding the word <i>imagine</i>, and a carving of King David, in grief at the news of the death of his son Absalom. Tucked into the bottom of this carving at the back is the messenger who has just brought the news. Around the staircase/scroll are carved the words of this particular passage. At the back are three carvings - the first, an intricate and fantastical piece - <i>Forest House</i> - which I remember him carving when I was very small in Germany; it is woven all around with words in many languages about the forest. Inside there's a chair, a staircase and a kettle. Next to that is the figure of Margaret Clitherow - a sixteenth century English Catholic woman who was deliberately crushed to death under her own front door by the protestant authorities who suspected her of harbouring priests. The small carving in front of them is called <i>A Good Girl Sitting Properly</i> and is finished with paint and gold wax. These all were much admired by visitors to the fair, and it was lovely to share my stall with the work of my biggest inspiration - my dad.</div>
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There were many more people there this year than I've known before, and the sun shone singingly for the whole two days. As always we gloried in the lovely mix of people and happenings under the wide Suffolk skies, and really enjoyed meeting all you good folk who came to visit my stall and buy or look at my work. It really makes what I do feel more real.</div>
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The Albion <a href="http://fairsarchive.org.uk/visuals"><span style="color: #38761d;">Fairs Archive</span></a> was there again - with an exhibition of images and old posters from that magical era of East Anglian fairs which Tom remembers fondly from his childhood. </div>
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We met a charming mad called Glen around the fire on the Saturday night who had brought his knife grinding cart to the fair.</div>
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This beautiful and intricate wooden jewellery came all the way from Scotland with Geoff and Fuggo King of <a href="http://www.woodlandtreasures.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Woodland Treasures</span></a>.</div>
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I had visits from friends and family which was lovely - here's my brother Jan and his two little ones.</div>
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I even met a distant cousin - Jess - whom I'd never met before!</div>
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The first busy day of selling ends when the visitors are trailing home and the other stallholders have started to cook dinner on their various fires. We close up our stall for the night, and sit down to eat our own...</div>
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An incredible sonic wood and metal dragon on wheels!<br />
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What a weekend! We hope very much to attend the fair next year in a wheeled contraption of our own, all going to plan, but more on that anon.</div>
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The sad moment of packing down eventually always comes, when you are really too tired to lug heavy canvas about, fish out dirty socks from underneath boxes of saucepans, pack everything down and drive off, but we did it anyway, as the last sun needled through the grand old trees of Haughley Park.</div>
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And before heading westwards, spent a few days with friends and family, old haunts and green men in East Anglia...</div>
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Back in Devon, we wended our way through the summer, working hard at our respective arts, as outside the studio the hedgerows reached for the blue skies and put out all the colours of their joys. And some of us dabbled in rivers...</div>
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We sat with friends roasting meat around fires, sat stringing beads in the sun, and danced Bourées with dogs...</div>
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In June we went to the <a href="http://www.greenfair.org.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Green Scythe Fair</span></a> in Somerset - a friendly, grassy little gathering of familiar people, excellent crafts and stalls and a lot of scything enthusiasts.</div>
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This fabulous Tudor shepherd's hut stall is the mobile forge of Dean Aggett - <a href="http://www.meadowforge.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">The Devon Blacksmith</span></a>. The fire blazed inside and metal was worked. One of Dean's ingenious creations is the tiny <a href="http://www.rocketstoves.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">DK Rocket Stove</span></a>, which was being demonstrated at the stall, boiling a kettle for tea.</div>
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Wagon painter <a href="http://www.quirkyquercus.co.uk/#/sarah-harvey-sign-writing/4565904146"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sarah Harvey</span></a> brought her wonderful signwriting, and stone carver <a href="http://www.tomclarkstonecarver.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tom Clark</span></a> demonstrated his beautiful work (that wonderful lion was actually hanging off his hat!)</div>
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And most important of all was the scything competition: a long and complicated affair whereby competitors were allocated a square of long grass to scythe with both speed and skill, and without injury to any Achilles tendon!</div>
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This incredible residence belongs to our friends artist <a href="http://www.hicks-jenkins.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Clive Hicks-Jenkins</span></a> and his partner Peter Wakelin, with whom we spent a delightful couple of days marvelling, slack-jawed at the art adorning every surface and corner of their wonderful home. There was art in the decoration and design of the home as well as all over the walls and beyond. This art was not only created by Clive, but by many other incredible artists besides.</div>
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I particularly enjoyed Clive's expressive pottery and, of course, his puppets!</div>
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We walked together (with Jack the Jack Russell, too) through the lush Welsh forests and fields and farms and rivers that surround their house...</div>
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I was in heaven exploring this space of creation at the very top of the tall house, where such marvels are conjured!</div>
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And then I was shown envelopes of witches and devils and dragons and birds! These are Clive's paper puppets for performances of <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/hicksjenkins/the-soldiers-tale-by-stravinsky/"><span style="color: #38761d;">A Soldier's Tale</span></a> by Stravinsky. If you haven't already come across Clive's work, his <a href="https://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">artlog</span></a> is a constant inspiration.</div>
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Whilst in Wales, we also spent the solstice celebrating a friend's 50th birthday, and got to stay midsummer night in the most enchanted woodland cabin you've ever seen! This place is hidden in a glorious oak wood, at the end of a hidden trail. It was built as a hideaway retreat, which is sometimes lent out to lucky people like us to spend the night there!</div>
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Hexagonal in shape, every little thing had been though of in its building. There was running water, but no electricity, a little Jøtul stove, and beautiful pottery and tiles made by the same man who built the cabin!</div>
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We woke in the morning to sunlight streaming in on all six sides, through a cathedral of oak and birdsong. We drank tea in our pyjamas in the utter tranquillity of the first morning of the second half of the year, as beetles crawled through stained glass pools of light spilling onto my skin.</div>
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This time, to a traditional Welsh cottage, also owned by Clive and Peter, where we stayed another blissful few days by the sea, yet again surrounded by art and beauty in every room!</div>
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Upstairs were <i>crog loft</i> bedrooms - low beamed rooms you had to climb a steep narrow staircase to reach, and then duck your head to get into bed. From lying in bed you could see through the miniature sash windows to the sea...</div>
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And just before we left, the dolphins blessed us with a visit. (there is a fin in this photo believe it or not!)</div>
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Our wheels brought us back to the moors, where the summer wheeled by faster than we wanted it to. Before we knew it, big scrolls of hay were rolling up the fields, the colour of the sun felt like it was tipping from honey to straw, and Shepherd's Purse was sending up little tokens of love to the season waving goodbye. </div>
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We've had happy visits from family - my brother Jan, his wife Maria and their sweet sparkling brood - Lukas & Anna - came to share some sunny August Devon days with us, pottering by the river, eating cake in cafés, and painting pictures of night-time in my studio.</div>
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Since then, Late Summer, not always warm, has taken us out onto the moors, where the granite and heather and gorse and dolmen and mushroom and horse have been waiting for us.</div>
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And now, just as we were once more digging out scarves from the bottoms of drawers, this late warmth has snuck in, to bless this month in which I turn 35 with unexpected dozy picnics by the river, whilst we make lists for the autumn and all the many things there are still to be done, and the once blossoming river plants turn to brown stems awaiting frost, and the river goes on flowing, just as it has done all year, harbouring quicksilver fish dreams, weed-wrapped granite, and jewel-fast reflections of kingfishers...</div>
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Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-17956102246777692882014-08-02T14:26:00.000+01:002014-08-03T10:43:40.863+01:00Unknown Jester - the making of a puppet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">HAVE BEEN WOODCARVING!</span> For the last few months a puppet has been in the making in my studio-on-the-other-side-of-a-trapdoor, as the summer rains and suns have lashed my windows.</div>
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Puppetry, as you know, has been an art that has long sung to me, and niggled at me, and perched on my shoulder as I've done other things over the years, prodding me with wooden fingers to not forget. And finally with a combination of <a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wind-ivy-flame-wing-pipe-dance-shadow.html"><span style="color: #38761d;">meeting puppet-obsessed friends in my local village</span></a> to create a fledgling puppet company, and being heartily encouraged by artist and theatre professional <a href="http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Clive Hicks-Jenkins</span></a> that I have a natural affinity for puppeteering, I have been spurred into the creation of a "constructed actor" (as Eileen Blumenthal cleverly describes puppets in her amazingly inspiring and far-reaching illustrated survey of the art - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Puppetry-Puppets-Illustrated-World-Survey/dp/0500512264"><span style="color: #38761d;">Puppetry & Puppets</span></a>). As a final incentive, Clive announced earlier in the year that he would be running one of his wonderful and inspiring online exhibitions - this time for puppets (you can see all the other incredible entries <a href="http://clivehicksjenkins.wordpress.com/tag/the-artlog-puppet-challenge/"><span style="color: #38761d;">here</span></a>). I decided to take part, and use this as an opportunity to make and <i>finish</i> a puppet. So many times I've roughly sketched puppet ideas which never become flesh, so this was an opportunity to make it happen!</div>
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Growing up as a daughter of <a href="http://staines-sculptors.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">sculptors with a particular leaning to woodcarving</span></a>, I couldn't help but be drawn to carve my first proper puppet in wood. Using tools, a sharpening device and a carving vice as well as seasoned lime wood from my Dad, I began in a rather haphazard but enjoyable way to create the head. It also gave me the excuse to buy a fantastic <a href="http://www.axminster.co.uk/japanese-265-kataba-crosscut-saw"><span style="color: #38761d;">Japanese saw</span></a> which cuts on the pull.</div>
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Despite having grown up amongst woodshavings, I wasn't prepared for the hard physical work involved and extreme length of time woodcarving takes! Painting seems a doddle in comparison! </div>
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As I reached the stage of carving the finer features and subtle curves, I began to realise my mistake of having carved the face with the grain heading toward the tip of the nose - carving back down into the face would be carving against the grain, and so tear the wood and make it very difficult. Nevertheless, I made do, and overcame the problems created by my own lack of planning, and on the whole it seemed to work. </div>
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What I found most interesting at this stage was the character that began to emerge beneath my tools. It was the face of a quite serene and knowing person - nothing like the one I'd envisaged to start with!</div>
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And when I say "envisaged" - this is the extent of the sketching I did prior to making my puppet! As you know, I'm not a great preliminary sketcher and planner, but my rough plan with this puppet was that he'd be a kind of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Eulenspiegel"><span style="color: #38761d;">Till Eulenspiegel</span></a> - popular folk fool of European story - a trickster figure who carries an owl and a looking-glass as his emblems. I am fond of him, and of trickster/jester figures in general.</div>
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But as I went along, with the face of my puppet having emerged as the face of someone entirely different from a slapstick laughing jester, and with the whole creation process taking me far longer than originally predicted, I had to re-think the construction of the puppet quite radically. I had gone from an ambitious intention to carve this puppet fully out of wood with beautifully fitted hinged joints, to realising I had to finish him in a much more patchworky way using different techniques and perhaps not making the whole body. I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to try out different materials and test untried construction techniques. This would be a kind of prototype-apprentice piece where I could learn from my mistakes. He gradually moved from being Till Eulenspiegel to a lesser-known Jester...</div>
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And so I modelled some hands from Sculpey (an oven-hardening clay) which were fun to make, if a little fiddly, much faster than carving, and slightly larger in proportion to the head than they should have been, but I kept their larger size as I liked it, and it purposefully made the hands more expressive, as they must be in a puppet who cannot speak.</div>
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I played around with dressing the puppet before he was painted, and made holes in the backs of the hands for the operating rods, as well as inserting wire loops at the wrists to make the joints.</div>
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Though scorched, they luckily remained solid, and I had intended to paint them anyway! I experimented with various paint effects, struggling to find the right look. So I left the hands whilst I finished the face, planning to come back to them and match them with the rest of the puppet once he was finalized.</div>
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His face needed a final sanding to achieve the smooth finish that the shapes seemed to need. I ignored some small blemishes on the head that I knew would be hidden with clothing.</div>
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In my trunk of fabrics, I enjoyed coming across old thread spools I'd cut from puppet show flyers years ago!</div>
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Then it was time to paint the face! And this proved far more difficult than I'd thought (can you see a theme emerging here?!). </div>
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Under the paint I put a layer of gesso, and then with oils, I proceeded to paint him as I imagined, but found as I went along that I wasn't sure if I should paint his face to just look like a face, or was I making stage make up here? Slowly a kind of Pierrot with Indian embellishments appeared. I leafed through books on masks to see how people painted faces such as these in other places and centuries. I saw the importance and beauty of the bold lines and colours, but found my bold lines and colours too harsh.</div>
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And so I went over his face with sandpaper, to antique him a bit, added paint and removed paint, slowly feeling happier with him, until his face was done.</div>
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Then it was time to make his body! I had come up with an ingenious plan to make a rudimentary body that wouldn't require days and days of construction. I cut a rough body cross-section from many layers of glued together card (easier than it sounds - I'd tried to make it as strong as a piece of wood, and thus it was so thick I could barely get through it, despite employing both saw and scalpel!)</div>
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I then carved a rough shoulder shape from florist's oasis - super light and easy to cut, if rather crumbly. This I stuck to the card base and then covered the whole thing with a layer of papier-mâché to make a smooth and more stable surface.</div>
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At the joints, I tried to make realistic movement by allowing extra leather where full bends were required and keeping the leather short where there is restricted movement, as can be seen in this elbow joint - allowing fairly realistic movement both ways.</div>
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These separate parts were then joined together - you can see that by now I've attached the operating rods for the hands and added little leather cuffs to hide the wrist mechanism.</div>
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And next (now with the genius introduction of a wall stapler - why didn't I think of that earlier?!) I began to join the whole thing together! Here you can see strips of leather stapled to the base of the wooden head.</div>
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These strips were then attached to the base of the shoulder section, allowing for adequate forward/backward and side-to-side movement in the head.</div>
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I have also attached a head operating rod - a rather steampunk affair made from some copper I found in my studio when I moved in. It is flexible enough to bend, but strong enough to hold the weight of the head. On reflection, I might paint this black at some point so as not to distract from the head.</div>
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And here he is! My Unknown Jester. I'm still unsure as to who exactly he is, what his name might be, or for that matter his story.</div>
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I feel like he is some kind of sage-jester, a wandering taleteller perhaps, walking the fine line between fool and wise one. Sitting in uncomfortable, unexpected places and telling us things we didn't know we needed to hear.</div>
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He wears a fool's motley and colours and bells, and sits remarkably well at a table, as I discovered by chance when we visited my parents recently and he made himself at home at the kitchen table for the duration of my stay, occasionally attempting to steal a grape!</div>
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Puppets can wield a great deal of power by being able to say things we as humans cannot, and a well operated puppet can suspend the disbelief and enchant even the most jaded adult or computer-game-addicted child.</div>
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I have learnt a huge amount in the making of this Unknown Jester. I would certainly next time be sure to hollow the head out before operating - this one is heavy enough to make long stints of puppeteering too uncomfortable. I have found my way around a number of new materials and techniques and have happily also made a character with whom I am happy. His arm movements are very pleasing, despite their crude construction, and as a first woodcarving, I am very pleased with this thoughtful, magical face.</div>
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Here he is sitting on the steps to my studio trapdoor...</div>
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I made a little test film of me playing with his movements, a very rough thing indeed with rough puppetry too, so please excuse that. This puppet is really designed to be operated by two people, hence my resting of the head rod on my hip in order to move both hands! But I hope it gives you a clearer feel of his character, and perhaps you'll be able to offer me some ideas as to who this Unknown Jester of mine is...</div>
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Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-67004093518988732572014-06-29T13:55:00.000+01:002014-06-29T16:58:02.479+01:00On walls in six of the seven continents...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">WAS RECENTLY SENT</span> a picture of my <i>Weed Wife</i> print framed most exquisitely, and thought that it deserved to be shared with you here. This picture (above) was sent to me by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecountrywitchscottage"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Stacey Carroll</span></a> whose father made the amazing wooden frame to fit the Weed Wife perfectly; it sits on Stacey's altar as an honouring of her herbalism work. </div>
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It always excites me to see photos of my paintings in other people's homes - the many ways people choose to frame them and the different places and ways they display and use them. As I address envelopes to send print orders to places with unfamiliar street names and postal codes across the seas, I wonder about those doormats where the envelopes will land, and the walls on which the prints will hang - what kind of places are they? What kinds of people live there? And of course, it is always delicious to get a little glimpse into these worlds! So I thought it'd be fun to share some of the photos of my work on far away walls that people have kindly sent me. </div>
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This one (above) showing my calendar hanging in a cozy kitchen is from book artist <a href="http://www.travelingchariot.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Abby Nolan</span></a> in Missouri, USA.</div>
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And this one (above) is from artist <a href="http://beneaththebracken.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Lynn Hardaker</span></a> in Regensburg, Germany. You can see the roofs of the city through the window beyond my <i>Picking Up Sticks </i>and <i>Väinämöinen Sings A Ship.</i></div>
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Here two of my pictures - <i>Soup & Pipe </i>and <i>Telling Stories to the Trees </i>flank an oval clock in the magic-brewing kitchen of Michelle Bergeron-Martin in Ohio, USA.</div>
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This cozy nook (above) harbouring my <i>Atching Tan</i> print in the Highlands of Scotland is in the home of jewellery carvers Geoff & Fuggo King of <a href="http://www.woodlandtreasures.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Woodland Treasures</span></a>.</div>
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Here (above) my <i>Dark Mountain</i> print, framed beautifully, hangs in the inviting Prague hallway of David Binar.</div>
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A mask watches over the walls of Burnard Burns in London, UK, where a few of my works can be seen.</div>
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Here (above) my calendar hangs sweetly in Suzy Davies' kitchen in Herefordshire, UK.</div>
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This wonderful studio wall, where a couple of my images share the inspiration-space, belongs to sculptor <a href="http://pasonjarr.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Jason Parr</span></a> in Norfolk, UK.</div>
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Very pleased to show you this one (above) - sent to me by Cherlyn Simpkins, a teacher in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK - here my rendition of Roald Dahl's words about magic hangs on her classroom wall: <i>"And above all watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, for the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."</i></div>
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This one (above) comes from the home of woodcarver Martin Hazell - as well as my calendar, you can see two of my original pieces amongst other wonders.</div>
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These two (above & below) show my prints and calendar displayed in Rebecca Elwell's shepherd's hut in the New Forest.</div>
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Here (below) my cards sit amongst small creatures in the home of Sally Mineur in Tasmania:</div>
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This lovely tableau by the phone (below) is from Kate Duerden in Surrey, UK.</div>
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And these next four lovely pictures are from shamanic healer & drum-maker <a href="http://suzi-crockford.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Suzi Crockford</span></a>'s cozy cottage in Devon, UK:</div>
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Here below is a photo of two of my prints in the home of artist & ceramicist <a href="http://marieke-ringel.jimdo.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Marieke Ringel</span></a> in Halle, Germany.</div>
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And this intriguing bookshelf (below) belongs to artist <a href="http://thegialloantico.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Jericho Moral</span></a> in the Philippines:</div>
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I was excited to see this photo (below) - it shows the original of <i>Soup & Pipe, </i>framed beautifully, on Rebecca Wilson's wall in Ottawa, Canada.</div>
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In this one (below), we can see the Dia de los Muertos celebration altar of Anna Björkman in Sweden; there are two of my pictures - <i>Anja in the Horse Chestnut</i> and<i> Sova Slova</i> - amongst the other magics in there.</div>
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This one's from Aurélie Hesse in Romans sur Isère, France, and shows my calendar hanging on the wall of her jewellery studio where she creates fruit for her <a href="http://larbreauxabricotsdargent.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">L'Arbre aux Abricots d'Argent</span></a> (tree of silver apricots):</div>
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And here (below) my <i>Smudge Fly</i> sits in an art corner in the home of Becca Chapman in Pennsylvania, USA:</div>
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This is the hallway of <a href="http://www.earthlines.org.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Earthlines Magazine</span></a> editor Sharon Blackie in Donegal, Ireland, where visitors to her home are welcomed by my <i>Weed Wife</i>:</div>
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These wonderful pictures (below) are from Carrie Osborne in Frome, Somerset who blogs her art and writing at <a href="http://wordhoards.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Windsongs & Wordhoards</span></a>. Here in her home my <i>Alchemist</i> is framed beautifully beside a box of wonders, nests and shells and skulls.. and my calendar hangs there too.</div>
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This one (below) was sent to me by Professor of Folklore and Mythology <a href="http://www.ariberk.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Ari Berk</span></a> - you can see on his myth-filled Michigan, USA walls the original of my little oil painting on wood <i>A Mountain Song to My Wordless Son</i>.</div>
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And here (below) are two of my pieces on the creature-full walls of felt artist <a href="http://hillsofnottingham.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Charlotte Hills</span></a>, in Nottingham, UK.</div>
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This one makes me smile, and is delightfully out of keeping with the rest. This is the home of a lovely man named Doris who lives in Norfolk, UK. Here my <i>Sova Slova</i> owl woman shares a wall with Lady Gaga!</div>
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This one's from Emma Welsh in York, UK - here my <i>Weed Wife</i> forms part of her Winter Solstice altar mandala:</div>
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Here (below) my <i>Sova Slova </i>print nestles on the walls of jeweller Miriam Boy of <a href="http://silverandmoor.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Silver & Moor</span></a>, in Devon, UK:</div>
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And this one, taken at wintertime, shows my <i>Feast of Fools </i>wreathed beautifully for the solstice on book artist <a href="http://www.travelingchariot.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Abby Nolan</span></a>'s walls in Missouri, USA:</div>
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Here my calendar and <i>The</i> <i>Alchemist</i> framed beautifully adorn the home of Natasha Burge in Saudi Arabia:</div>
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And this one (below) is from Nathalie Desoil in Angreau, Belgium. The lovely frame was made by a French craftsman, and houses two of my works - <i>Lodka </i>and <i>A Song to All Our Sorrows:</i></div>
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This group of photos (below) showing various works of mine in different settings is from the home of Teresa Interlicchia in New York, USA:</div>
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Very excited to show you this one (below) - it was sent to me by Amy Bogard in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and shows my <i>Concertina Eggcup Song</i> print on display at the workshop where <a href="http://carrollconcertinas.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Carroll Concertinas</span> </a>are made - a more perfect setting I cannot imagine!</div>
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And these artful walls of magic and inspiration, where a good few of my works dwell, belong to writer and wonder-weaver <a href="http://www.wildtalewort.net/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Sylvia Linsteadt</span></a> in California, USA:</div>
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And lastly, a <i>whole wall</i> dedicated to my work in the home of Adam and Rhen Garland, in Suffolk, UK, guarded by Cernunnos and a boar. Adam and Rhen visit my stall every year at the <i>Weird and Wonderful Wood </i>fair, and each year buy a picture. What a lovely thing for me to see.</div>
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I hope you've enjoyed peeping into other people's homes with me! If you have any photos of my work in your homes, do send them along, I'd love to see, and perhaps we'll amass enough for another of these blog posts! And if you don't yet have any of my work - come along and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/thehermitage?ref=si_shop"><span style="color: #b45f06;">buy some here</span></a>! It really warms my cockles to see the fruits of my paintbrush-and-soul adorning the lives of folks far and wide, and reminds me why I do it in the first place. Thank you all so much.</div>
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Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-73767123039399371242014-06-18T15:35:00.000+01:002014-06-18T15:35:11.092+01:00To The Great Tree-Loving Fraternity We Belong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">N IVY BRANCH</span> hugs a tree with fierce love, its arms and legs making us believe it is almost a person. All over this ivy-person's body are painted people: bird-people, plant-people, animal-people, insect-people, fish-people and human-people, reaching out and loving the tree too, in the symbiotic way that forests demand of us all: we would not be here if it were not for trees, holding together the stories of our ecosystems, feeding us, housing us, giving us air to breathe, water to drink and swim in, and holding together with their roots the very earth we call our home. And yet, there is also a crack - threading through the tree into the ivy-person. How long can we hold on? The tree has been cut too, and in its beautiful, now-visible rings, we can read the words: <i>To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong</i>...</div>
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I have just finished painting this piece and it is already winging its way to the gallery where it will be on display from tomorrow(!) I was asked to submit a piece to the latest exhibition at Brighton's <a href="http://onca.org.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">ONCA</span></a> gallery (One Network for Conservation & the Arts) which is an artistic celebration of trees. The <a href="http://onca.org.uk/upcoming-exhibitions/onehundred/http://onca.org.uk/upcoming-exhibitions/onehundred/"><span style="color: #38761d;">100 Project</span></a>, as it is called, will last for 100 hours, and the aim of the project is that ONCA will create two forests: one in the gallery of 100 tree-related artworks, and one outside in the London Road area of Brighton where they will plant 100 trees! The artworks are all less that 20cm square in size and will all be for sale at £100 - half the sale price going to the artist, and half toward the tree-planting. Artworks are by professional artists as well as local school children and youth groups, and the whole project is in association with the <a href="http://earthrestorationservice.org/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Earth Restoration Service</span></a>, which seeks to rectify environmental degradation by working with small local communities to enhance the integrity of local ecosystems. Green Party MP Caroline Lucas will be opening the tree-planting event on Saturday, and the special guest at tomorrow night's opening will be a lime tree.</div>
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Inspired by this project I agreed to make a piece to go in this art-forest, and had the very piece of wood waiting to be used. This was given to me by someone who thought it reminded them of my work, and for me, the tree-huggingness of its shape begged to be made into a three dimensional painting about tree-love.</div>
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It became quite a thing. It is still very fresh in my creative eye, so I can't really see it now as I know I will in a few weeks, by which time it may be sold! I can see why flat paintings took off! - this was immensely fiddly to achieve, but I nevertheless enjoyed it - a combination of three and two dimensions. </div>
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The quote, by the way, is by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher"><span style="color: #38761d;">Henry Ward Beecher</span></a>, and I found it <i>after</i> completing the painting because I felt it needed words too, and these seemed to sum up what I was trying to say perfectly (although I of course do not exclude any sorority in the Great Tree-Loving!)</div>
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May this painting and all its fellow art-forest works go some way to re-entwining all the tree-loving peoples with their great green-armed beloveds.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">N THE ROAD OF MY NAME</span>, a motley band of travelling misfits vagabond their way to Another Place...</div>
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And thus you enter my new website! I have kept a rather dusty web-place for some years now, which although pleasingly rooty and interesting, was not at all easy to update and lost in the grand job that internet housekeeping has become, it has not been tidied for years! So I decided to take action, and build myself a new one - this time, super-simple, no faffery or frippery, just a good online portfolio collection of all my creations, where I can easily slot in new works as they are created. This website should work smoothly on all the varying whatsits that people might choose to use to look through the veil, and be a good window to all that I do. It will grow over time, but for now, please go and visit it, pass on the link to your friends and let me know what you think of it! </div>
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Those of you who have stepped into my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/thehermitage?ref=si_shop"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>etsy shop</b></span></a> lately will know that there are many wonderful new things in there. Not least, a selection of fantastic prints on delicious heavyweight (320gsm) cream-straw recycled card. </div>
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There are prints large and small, and a slightly smaller selection of works than before. As part of the spring clean of my online work I have decided to stop selling my much older illustrations, which I feel I have artistically outgrown.<br />
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You will, however, notice a few new ones which you'll not have seen before!</div>
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So perhaps I'll tell you their tales...<br />
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This one I painted last month to take to the Weird & Wonderful Wood Fayre. A green-and-anchor-clad woman crouches in her small boat, setting sail towards I-know-not-what, propelled by paddle & sail, and led by a strange figurehead. </div>
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The image is painted on an old wooden paddle that I found in a junk shop some years back, but I am not entirely sure what it was - a butter pat? a tiny oar? Any thoughts welcome! This original painting is for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/191082797/by-paddle-sail-original-oil-painting-on?ref=shop_home_feat_1"><span style="color: #990000;">here</span></a> if you love it. Or you can <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehermitage/search?search_query=by+paddle&order=date_desc&view_type=gallery&ref=shop_search"><span style="color: #990000;">buy a print</span></a>!</div>
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From venturing to homing, the other new painting you'll find in my shop is in fact not very newly painted. It was made in 2011 for my brother Jan and his wife Maria's 2nd anniversary at Jan's request - a humourous pondering of what Maria (a frequenter of jumble and car boot sales and a collector of many beautiful old items) might be like one far-off day when she's living alone without Jan to maintain the house (as he does brilliantly) and only her hoarded and squirreled artifacts to hold up the crumbling dwelling! </div>
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I had great fun detailing many little items and stuffing them into the cottagey corners of this chunky piece of Yew, which had a convenient branch-sprout for the range's chimney.</div>
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As always, I drew the image in first, particularly important with something as finnickety and detailed as this one.</div>
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This old woman ended up with a Turkish kilim-carpet and boots and shawl-decoration inspired by the <i><a href="http://riowang.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/tales-of-amur.html"><span style="color: #990000;">Tales of the Amur</span></a></i> - Gennady Pavlishin's beautifully illustrated depiction of the stories and beliefs of the Nanais people of far Eastern Siberia on the great Amur river.</div>
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There are old bottles, tilley lamps, top hats, broken perambulators, parasols, books, cameras, clocks, trunks, typewriters, wheels, wool (even holding the window together - knitting needles between the panes, and knitted curtains too); there are tin baths, rolling pins, jars, spoons, fiddles, cups, clogs, spools, tongs, teapots, pepper mills, chamber pots, bellows, baskets... all holding together this home, in which the old woman sits serenely drinking tea.</div>
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And there we have it - a little view into the nest of a happy crone, whose journeys (perhaps by paddle or sail or foot or wheel or wind-horse) have brought her to this place, cocooned by all these mementos of those adventures, and the age-old wisdom there is to be found in a pot of tea.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">AY!</span> She has skipped in barefoot, trailing her beautiful skirts through our days. It has taken me a surprisingly long time to land after our Australasian travels: my seasonal clock has been all disrupted, and I found myself bemused to see the hedgerows in the relative cold announcing spring after my body had been through a tropical and otherworldly summer. The spring uprush has taken my senses by surprise, and I am awkward and unfamiliar with the flowers, like with friends I've not seen for a long time, feeling slightly bad for having missed their birthdays. I have struggled to re-find my rhythms and to re-track my own seasonal footprints. Writing about our journey for you here has proved harder than I thought, though it will come, I am sure. This strange seasonal-soul-lag has made me reflect a lot upon travel and how it changes you on your return, and on the different kinds of weight you can have, depending on how much you travel, and on how much you sink your roots into the loam on your homecoming. </div>
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Dartmoor's colours have called my still-floating spirit back to this beloved place, and surrounded me with wild and mossy, blackbird-singing <i>here-ness</i>, allowing me to once again catch up with my own tail disappearing round the next corner, as it always does at this urging time of the year.</div>
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The Mayday holiday was spent celebrating the rites of spring in old ways. On May 1st I went with friends to Padstow in Cornwall where they hold the well-known <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Obby_'Oss_festival"><span style="color: #0b5394;">'Obby 'Oss</span></a> festival - a strange and delightful folk ritual drama held every year to celebrate the coming of summer.</div>
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We stand, clutching song sheets, squashed among the red-and-white clad rabble waiting outside the Golden Lion pub for the emergence of the famous 'Obby 'Oss and its retinue. </div>
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Driven on with the beating of drums and all playing the same tune for the entire day they wander the town heralding that strangest of creatures - the 'Obby 'Oss...</div>
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The early origins of this festival and its 'Oss are unknown, though in its current form it can be dated back to 1803. Speculations have been made about its roots in pre-Christian spring celebrations, and the 'Oss is certainly a cousin of the Welsh <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mari Lwyd</span></a> and other European <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_horse"><span style="color: #0b5394;">hobby horse traditions</span></a>. </div>
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It is a strange and unnerving thing made of black sailcloth draped over a 6-foot wide hoop worn by a member of the Padstow community, and topped with a gruesome mask with a power and design seeming more akin to the folk ritual of Africa than the coves of Cornwall. At the front and back of the hoop are a kind of horse head and tail, and as the 'Oss dances through the crowds to the music, the skirt sways up and down, attempting to catch young maidens under it. If you are one of these luckies, it is said that you'll become pregnant within the year! All the while a "teazer" dance-jousts with the 'Oss and leads it through the throng. People take turns at this role, and all the while the master of ceremonies calls: <i>"'Oss! 'Oss!"</i>, and the crowd responds: <i>"Wee 'Oss!"</i></div>
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There are two 'Obby 'Osses parading through the town. The one with the red-and-white retinue is the Old 'Oss, the original. The one with the blue-and-white retinue is the Peace 'Oss, introduced in the early 20th century at first to discourage over-consumption of alcohol, and then after the First World War, for peace. The two 'Osses eventually meet and dance together under the maypole in the evening. (And alcohol consumption is still a central feature of the festivities!)</div>
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I was quite taken by the experience of being in a fired-up crowd of ordinary people (i.e. not belonging to some special interest group or society), not partaking in dry pomp-and-circumstance or Christianized calendar observance, but celebrating a frolicsome pagan holiday. The tune that was played round and round all day (with death and rebirth refrains) I found eerily compelling, and even more so when I later watched this early film footage of the festival in 1932 when they evidently danced to the exact same tune:</div>
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The red and white piratey get-up emerged apparently after folklorist Alan Lomax visited Padstow in the 1950s and prompted the people to dress up for the filming. The outfit has stuck as firmly as the tune.</div>
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I love what it says in that clip about the people of Padstow <i>needing </i>the 'Oss to come back every year, about them not feeling right all year if the 'Oss didn't come and visit them on May morning. I love that the tune is always the same, and that the 'Oss is so odd and compelling in its presence. I love that only people born in Padstow can take part in the mumming, And I love that these things still go on in the town squares and village greens of England.</div>
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Not content with one May rite, a few days later we all went to a nearby Dartmoor village - Lustleigh - to enjoy its somehow more quaint, yet utterly delightful May celebrations.</div>
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And then after all of that, once the raffles and picnics and Morrising were over, my little trio <span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/krasa.html"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Krasa</span></a> </i></span>played some Klezmer in the pub garden. Lisa (on fiddle), being a Lustleigh girl, was May Queen one year too, and has her name on the stone.</div>
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To round off the weekend of Spring celebrations, we gathered in a neighbour's field and jumped a fire to leave all the old unwanted things in the flames, to make space for the new... And I felt a deep sense of really having celebrated the season, welcomed the May, of really having embodied the coming of the summer, which was exactly what my out-of-kilter body clock needed.<br />
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And now, it's time for me to show you some new work! This piece was painted at the end of last year, many months in the making, but I could not show it to you until its intended recipient had seen it. Now, as the fires and blossoms and dances of spring fill the margins of my vision, I shall show you this painting of nature goddesses, of the earth's fertility, of Maiden, Mother & Crone.</div>
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She was born from a rounded-pregnant oak burr, which took weeks to sand smooth, and which was so awkward in shape I had to work on it on the floor.</div>
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She gradually took shape, the triple goddess against the full moon. Maiden, Mother and Crone joining hands in the circle of life-death-life, Maiden and Crone holding a garland of Hawthorn, Rose & Elder over the head of the Mother. In the belly of the Mother are housed all four elements - earth, air, fire, water - and from this holy crucible spring vines which reach out through the painting and entwine the godesses all three. At their feet in the leaf mould grow mushrooms of all incarnations - life from death. The whole scene is nestled within a red womblike window, as if the oak is revealing to us a secret of the true nature of things.</div>
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This was made for very dear friends Emma and Graeme. Graeme commissioned me to paint it for Emma's birthday, and suggested a triple goddess, but beyond that left the imagery to me. Inspired by the wonderful piece of wood we'd found, and somehow a little daunted at making a painting for a friend, I set off determined to make this Maiden-Mother-Crone much earthier and more real than any other triple goddess imagery I'd seen before (all too purple, airbrushed and costumed for my taste). The characters of each aspect of the goddess emerged of their own accord.</div>
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There will be prints of this painting available soon, along with other new works and completely revamped prints, which I can confidently say are the best yet, and quite covetable, so stand by for the spring reopening of my shop in just over a week!</div>
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As I walk down the lanes of frothing hedgerows into my thirty-fifth summer, gathering wayside treasures, I see honesty,</div>
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I see paths deep in the woods,</div>
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I am back in my studio, which has warmth at long last (something we have not been short of these past months in Pacific Summer but, thus spoilt, are now craving even more!) Projects varied and exciting are bubbling away in that kettle. I am returned remade by travel in distant lands, with renewed energy for creating.</div>
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<b>April 18th - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/612215285537610/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Spring Artisan Fayre</span></a> - Chagford, Devon</b> - 10am - 4.30pm </div>
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I will have a stall of wares here alongside my fellow wonderful artisans <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Danielle Barlow</span></a>, <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Lunar Hine</span></a>, <a href="http://www.virginialee.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Virginia Lee</span></a>, <a href="http://silverandmoor.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-gallery.html"><span style="color: #38761d;">Miriam Boy-Hackney</span></a>, <a href="http://sustainablestyling.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Angharad Barlow</span></a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakleafjewellery/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Damien Hackney</span></a>,</span> Diana Dench, <a href="http://www.healinghedgerow.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sonny Parsons</span></a> and <span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.sharifadams.co.uk/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Sharif Adams</span></a> </span>- there'll be woodcraft, herbcraft, stitchcraft, paintcraft, metalcraft and, of course, tea.</div>
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This arts weekend boasts many creative delights not to be missed, including a <a href="http://www.ocmundtunearts.com/#!story-telling/c23g6"><span style="color: #38761d;">Storytelling of Gypsy Traveller Tales from Eastern Europe</span></a> by <a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #38761d;">Tom</span></a> and me on the Saturday, and an all-weekend <a href="http://www.ocmundtunearts.com/#!exhibition-/cnu8"><span style="color: #38761d;">Art Exhibition</span></a> where some of my pieces will be on display alongside other (quite incredible) painters from the South West.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">HE LITTLE GIRL</span> in this picture is my maternal grandmother <i>Lois Florymel Thorn Hunter (née Shutes)</i>, with her parents Elsie and Arthur (and a bear). It was taken a century ago in 1913 in Cornwall where my great grandfather was mining tin. Lois was born in New Zealand, as was my mother. And now I write from just outside a <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stannary"><span style="color: #45818e;">Stannary</span></a></i> <i>Town </i>in the West Country where the mined tin would have been brought to be weighed and valued, preparing to make a journey of my own to the other side of the world where it is summer now, to the land of my mothers - New Zealand!</div>
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This is how I remember my grandmother Lois; she died ten years ago aged 93, and her ashes were scattered off the headland of the subtropical idyllic Northland coast she lived on and loved so well, and where I remember blissful days swimming as a girl when our family visited her there.</div>
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This will be our first holiday together, a celebration of Tom's graduation - his long studies in acupuncture having taken him every week of our relationship away to Reading, and at the end of it now we carry a huge backlog of deep tiredness. Our usual trips away involve lugging heavy damp canvas, driving the A-roads, storytelling, stallholding, a vanful of muddy belongings, and returning home tireder than when we left. Perhaps I've reached some mysterious age when you suddenly yearn to swim in turquoise seas and warm your cold moor-drenched bones with tropical sun. But also, this is a journey for me to see half of my family - antipodean cousins I last saw when we were children, and aunts and uncles and all the long-reaching southern circle of my family's web. It is to be an adventure and a rest and a re-weaving. I sit by the fire in this cottage on the edge of Dartmoor as the winter rains and winds lash these hills incredulous and nervous and excited about our long leap to other greener summer hills in less than a fortnight. We also travel from Middle Earth around the earth to Middle Earth, as these beloved Dartmoor rivers, tors, forests and mossy undulations were direct inspiration for our artist neighbour <a href="http://www.endicott-studio.com/gal/galalan.html"><span style="color: #45818e;">Alan Lee</span></a>'s conjuring of Tolkien's world. And for the last decade almost he's been in New Zealand re-conjuring Middle Earth for cinema, from which have grown new generations who now think of New Zealand as land of Hobbits and Elves. So we'll find both a familiarity and a strangeness in the land where my mother grew up on a remote and wild farm under the watchful volcanic presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taranaki"><span style="color: #45818e;">Mount Taranaki</span></a>, <i>her</i> mountain.</div>
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We have my great aunt Una and uncle Ed to thank for the wonderful gift of this unimaginable adventure, as they paid for our flights, hoping to see me again whilst they're still on this earth! Una is Lois's younger sister, and a valued reader of this blog! We cannot thank them enough for this gift of a journey.</div>
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My name has roots in this far off land - <i>Rima</i> is Maori for <i>five</i> or <i>a hand:</i><br />
<i><br /></i><b>1 Tahi</b><br />
<b>2 Rua</b><br />
<b>3 Toru</b><br />
<b>4 Whā</b><br />
<b>5 Rima</b><br />
<b>6 Ono</b><br />
<b>7 Whitu</b><br />
<b>8 Waru</b><br />
<b>9 Iwa</b><br />
<b>10 Tekau</b><br />
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We will be away for two whole months, stopping in Fiji on our way back to visit my mother's sister and her family who live there. I imagine I'll not be online much, though an occasional blog post may sneak through depending on internet and inclination. My etsy shop will be closed until I return (in the spring!) when I plan to reopen it stocked with new wares. I'll take my camera and sketchbooks with me into the land of Pohutukawa tree and Bellbird, of white sand and blue water, of volcanic mountain and hot spring, of ancestor and adventure...</div>
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We'd be very grateful for any recommendations of interesting artful and wild places to visit, eco-communities, artists, storytellings, activists, multi-bed acupuncture clinics, festivals and the suchlike... I also have an accordion-dilemma: I don't think I can take my accordion with me as it won't fit in my hand luggage and I don't want to risk putting it in the hold, but I'll be bereft for two months without it. This is an extreme longshot, but do any of you know where/if in NZ I could borrow or hire a <b>B-System chromatic button accordion</b> such as I (and the Russians and Yugoslavians) play?! </div>
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This beautiful carving is a Maori door lintel or <i>pare</i>, carved in c. 1850 for the door of a meeting house. It shows a typical lintel-image of the Earth Mother <i>Papatuanuka</i> giving birth to all the gods of the land and sky on which she stands.</div>
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We go now through this mother-doorway from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion"><span style="color: #45818e;">Albion</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa"><span style="color: #45818e;">Aotearoa</span></a> - land of the white cliffs to <i><b>Land of the Long White Cloud... </b></i></div>
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Yet again, Christmas eve has come round before I've had a chance to catch my breath. The mad rush of the winter season seems an antithesis to what our bodies yearn for - hearth and home and hibernation, and yet we are caught in it, tripping over our damp bootlaces and dropping scarves and bags as we hurry to the December 25th finish line. </div>
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Winter has been blessed with gatherings, too. The weekend before last marked a most wonderful melee of Breton and French music and dancing in our village hall. Folks came from counties and countries far and wide to attend this stirring magic of a happening. Our hearts and feet were held captive for hours by the arts of <a href="http://andy-letcher.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/raising-dragon.html"><span style="color: #990000;">Wod</span></a> and <a href="http://andy-letcher.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/raising-dragon.html"><span style="color: #990000;">Red Dog Green Dog</span></a> who played an array of bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, concertina, accordion and fiddle. What a night!</div>
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And because one night of that sort of magic is not enough, we did it all over again in the pub the next day - a session of staggering quality, where French and Breton tunes were joined by Manouche Swing, English Folk, Klezmer and Balkan musics on many beautiful instruments, and even knitting-needle percussion! I had so much fun I was almost late for my own band's gig in <i>another </i>pub down the road!</div>
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All through this autumn-into-winter four of us have been meeting every week in a cabin at the edge of the woods to learn the art of puppetry - the realizing of a long-held dream of mine. We've been taught and directed by <a href="http://endicottstudio.typepad.com/howardgayton/"><span style="color: #990000;">Howard Gayton</span></a>, a dramatist and mask and puppet performer of many years' and miles' experience. He has shown us the subtle magic of sending your awareness into an inanimate object to bring it to life, beginning with a humble piece of cloth. Over the weeks, this work developed into a little show with puppetry by <a href="http://airandparchment.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #990000;">Nomi McLeod</span></a> and Howard and I, a story devised by all four of us, props and puppet (really just a bit of cloth augmented with found objects) made by me, and music by <a href="http://andy-letcher.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #990000;">Andy Letcher</span></a>. Last Friday we had our first five showings to friends - to let them see what we'd been working on these past months - and it was truly magic! (And interestingly I wasn't crippled by nerves.) Thanks to <a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/"><span style="color: #990000;">Terri Windling</span></a> for the photos of us performing.</div>
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I must say that I am quite astounded by how happily I've taken to this artform, though I am just a beginner. There is something <i>just right </i>about the particular combination of figure-craft and music and the sending-out-of-spirit, and I skip towards the next developments of this wonderful new bowstring with glee!</div>
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My paints have been kept occupied these hibernating months, too, and the latest of my paintings I can show you here. </div>
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It began with a piece of Yew wood, whose shape you might recognise as neighbour to <a href="http://intothehermitage.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/atching-tan.html"><span style="color: #990000;">this one</span></a>.</div>
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This is <i><b>The Wing Giver</b></i>, a painting commissioned by Julian, who is my first client to give me no brief whatsoever! He just asked me to make him a painting! At first I was wary - what if he didn't like what I created? But he convinced me in the end that he really did want what came straight from me. So, after asking to hear a few things about Julian and his family to set me on the right inspiration-path, I painted what came, and feel truly grateful for the wings this gave me. I am very happy with the painting that I made given this freedom, and hope Julian and his family will be too - it will wing its way to him after Christmas, as the paint is only just dry.</div>
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Our home is warm and greened with boughs. The electricity is intermittent due to the winds and so we sit sometimes by candle and firelight with our busied souls racing to catch us up and join us by the woodburner.</div>
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The beautiful-looking book you can see above was a gift from <a href="http://coyopa.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #990000;">Tom</span></a> to me - <i><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/09/20/the-night-life-of-trees-tara-books/"><span style="color: #990000;">The Night Life of Trees</span></a> - </i>published by the wonderful <a href="http://www.tarabooks.com/"><span style="color: #990000;">Tara Books</span></a> in India. The stunning illustrations are hand screen printed onto black, and are based on the mythology of the Gond tribe which tells of the magical spirited world of the trees that comes to life once we've gone to sleep.</div>
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There is magic happening in the kitchen now as food is prepared, and in the nooks and corners of our home where green men spew ivy and mistletoe, logs reveal their warm and long-kept secrets, and we hunker down under the thatch for our long winter's nap.</div>
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I leave you with some chinks of light to guide you across the stormy dark seas out there. First, <i>Lantern </i>by the band <i><a href="http://clogs.bandcamp.com/album/lantern"><span style="color: #990000;">Clogs</span></a> </i>(film by Vincent Moon) <i>- </i>a mesmeric and gentle music:</div>
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I wish you all a joyous and wonder-filled Yuletide, chattering with happy hearth-heart-stories, the giving of wings, and much light, shining out. </div>
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Rima Staineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6810156851531185584.post-27044528155326315152013-12-19T12:00:00.001+00:002013-12-19T12:00:44.866+00:00Signwriting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have always enjoyed lettering - something I grew up watching my sculptor parents do (though their many lettering jobs were carved in wood and stone rather than painted). I learnt to strive for a pleasing serif, and found much delight in making artistic yet balanced, properly weighted letter forms. Beautiful alphabetry is harder to find these days with generic plastic shop signs and computer-fonts muscling in everywhere you look. I do not, however, consider myself by any means a <i>signwriter</i>! My lettering has an artistic wonkiness to it, and liberties taken with spacing that you'd never find under the brush of a professional signwriter. The sign painting I do is the result of an<i> artist</i> making lettering, and cannot compare, for example, to the stunningly exquisite signwriting by my friends Ash and Sarah Bishop at <a href="http://brilliantsigns.co.uk/"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The Brilliant Sign Company</span></a>, or to the beautiful letterwork of Andrew Grundon at <a href="http://www.signaturesignsuk.com/"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Signature Signs</span></a>. But I continue to love lettering nevertheless!</div>
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These signs were made for another local friend - Davide Brady-Picone's acupuncture clinic. He wanted something traditional and Victorian-flavoured, with a recurring fern motif.</div>
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All the lettering takes me a ridiculously long time. And these ones were particularly fiddly, as I was using oil-based eggshell paints which had to be warmed on top of a heater before they were liquid enough to work with.</div>
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I made four signs for Davide - a large one for over the door, two smaller ones to lead people up the stairs and an A-board for the pavement outside.</div>
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These following photos below show off the signs best of all - they were taken by another local Dartmoor talent - <a href="http://www.juliettemills.com/"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Juliette Mills</span></a> - a very fine photographer indeed - and show the signs on display between florist and wine shop!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">NE ICY MORNING</span> as the light crept over the edge of my day, I stepped out into the frosted world and found there on the cold ground a lost wing of summer, its flutter of gold now flightless and fallen, as the crisp stilling of silver winter rose up. </div>
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Everywhere a quiet alchemy was taking place. The cold gate latch ice-clanged. Frost and rust: strange playmates.</div>
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Here I stood, on this late November day, as the Earth's Wild Jeweller threaded her silver through the rich golds of autumn.</div>
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Birch trees edged with peeling paperbark were amber-lit by the first light against blue moonstone-cold fields; autumn's late-clinging leaves shone golden in the silver morning.</div>
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Old bracken and new ivy, brown and green, were adorned by the twin lustre of those two precious metals of fable and proverb, found in <i>Long John, </i>in <i>apple, </i>in <i>moonlight, </i>in <i>heart, </i>in pirate's swag and tax collector's booty. The Earth's Wild Jeweller had cast a metallurgist's spell to enchant any lost or jaded treasure-hunter.</div>
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I stalked the paths of this 24 carat world, the treasure chest of my heart full up with iridescent awe, and ringing in a momentary gladness.</div>
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As the light found its way over ice-stilled leaves and grass blades caught in the electrolysis of winter...</div>
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Fallen acorns and upturned mushrooms and leaf skeletons grew tiny, quiet crystals of the rarest value...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">HE HERMITAGE 2014 CALENDAR</span> has proved popular beyond my imaginings! The first and second print runs whooshed off the shelf like the hottest of winter cakes, and still many people missed out! So this time round I'm <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/168573222/preorder-the-hermitage-2014-calendar"><span style="color: #38761d;">taking preorders</span></a> before making my order with the printers. Go ahead and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/168573222/preorder-the-hermitage-2014-calendar"><span style="color: #38761d;">order the calendar</span></a> now, bearing in mind there'll be a delay before I can send it out to you, which is especially important to remember if you live overseas and need it for a certain date. I'll leave this listing up this week, and then make my <i>last</i> order with the printers. Now's your last chance folks. Thank you hugely for loving this so much, and for supporting my work. It makes such a difference.</div>
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