The Hermitage
Monday, 25 February 2008

The Book Thief

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I T'S JUST a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-f...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Kneeling Goats and Mossy Kettles

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T HESE BRIGHT DAYS have called us outdoors into the hills ... We have walked lots of miles carrying just a camera and a bag of raisins, and ...
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Sunday, 17 February 2008

Kakuarshuk

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K AKUARSHUK'S TALE speaks of a time long ago when women got their children by digging in the earth. The would pry children loose from t...
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Stones & Bones

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R ABBIT SKULLS with long curled hollow grass-chomping teeth and little delicate snap-whispers of leg bones can be found lying all over the ...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Sun on the chimbleys

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T HE SMELL OF SPRING is here and has brought a wonderful uplifting sunshine with it. We have walked around the hills scarf-and-gloveless an...
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Friday, 8 February 2008

Honey and Klezmer

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A SWARM of bees for you .. a little detail from the album cover I have beeeen busy with. Following the doldrums with the first attempt, I ...
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Saturday, 2 February 2008

A Button House for a Button Mouse

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A Button House for a Button Mouse. A quick pencil drawing made today to bring me out of the doldrums of painting anguish ... I think the But...
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Thursday, 31 January 2008

Bees in a Blizzard & Dripping Pianos

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T ODAY I SIT at my desk looking out at a blizzard of wild sideways-swirling-snows and paint bees and gnarled trees for an album cover commi...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

The Smudge Fly

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A NEW DRAWING of mine ... merged skilfully by Tui into an old cracked photograph ... The Smudge Fly ... for sale here ...
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Saturday, 26 January 2008

Moving still pictures

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W HILST EMBROILED in storyboarding the animation, I came across a review in the sunday paper about a book just published by Scholastic - Th...
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Some brown parcel tape & the beginnings of a tale ...

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T HE orla wren animation is begun! The story is gently beginning to tell itself with pencil drawings that will be moved very small distance...
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Friday, 18 January 2008

Naomi & The Devil of Darkling Green

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T ODAY'S TALE takes us into the mind of a young girl who is not like the others, into forests and derelict mental asylums, into a villa...
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Thursday, 17 January 2008

A nOrsebox!

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F RIENDS , take a look at our new home ... a true house on wheels! A 1976 Bedford TK Horsebox, bought purely with earnings from picture sale...
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008

A house, a tree and two birds

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H ERE IS my latest painting .. a gift for my brother and his girlfriend who have just bought their first house together. It is painted with...
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Friday, 11 January 2008

A Busy Nest

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T HE HERMITAGE nest is very busy at the moment ... there are sketchings and paintings and musical arrangings and animation-plannings and d...
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Monday, 7 January 2008

House on Wheels

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W HEELS ON HOUSES are one of the Best Things. Here's one I made. Inside is a tale about a king who journeys to find What Really Matters...
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Friday, 4 January 2008

Friday, the day for...

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Thursday, 3 January 2008

Snow in the Village

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Snegurochka

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S NEGUROCHKA , the Russian Snow Maiden is the daughter of Father Frost and Mother Spring. The legend tells that she became more beautiful wi...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2008

Father Frost

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F ATHER FROST or Dedt Moroz is a Siberian ice spirit who hides in fir trees deep in the forest and as he snaps his fingers, he splits and s...
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Rima Staines
Dartmoor, United Kingdom
Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, clock-making, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge that grows along the boundary between this world & that. Her gate-building has been a lifelong pursuit, & she hopes to have perhaps propped aside even one spiked loop of bramble (leaving a chink just big enough for a mud-kneeling, trusting eye to glimpse the beauty there beyond), before she goes through herself.

Always stubborn about living the things that make her heart sing, Rima has lived on wheels a few times in her life. She's currently rooted in mossy South Devon, halfway between moor and sea.

Rima’s inspirations include the world & language of folktale; faces of people who pass her on the street; folk music & art of Old Europe & beyond; peasant & nomadic living; magics of every feather; wilderness & plant-lore; the margins of thought, experience, community & spirituality; & the beauty in otherness.

Crumbs fall from Rima’s threadbare coat pockets as she travels, & can be found collected here, where you may join the caravan.
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