The Hermitage
Saturday, 26 April 2008

A box of beads on a foggy day

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Y ESTERDAY'S FOGGY misty moisty morning brought an interesting box all the way from Utah.. and inside I found this - a delightful box o...
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Thursday, 24 April 2008

Deadly Curios & Wardrobe Clearouts

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T ODAY I BRING you a motley collection of tales, the first few from a delightful book that I was reading last night in the bath. Timpson...
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Sunday, 20 April 2008

Telling the Bees

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A WEEK after the Sunday-of-Lost-Data I have a little honeyed tale for you. Yesterday the postman brought a thrilling package of CDs, all p...
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Friday, 18 April 2008

Thank yous and News

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W ELL HELLO , and here's news for you... it has been a week of to-ings and fro-ings and frustrations and phonings. After much deliberati...
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Sunday, 13 April 2008

Of nature and technology and of being caught between

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H ELLO all ... I write with a tale of woe, of epic disaster that summarizes perfectly the precarious tightrope that I walk, strung between ...
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Thursday, 10 April 2008

There's a Stair in Her Hair

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"There's a stair in her hair" he said. "Where?" she said. " There "
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Sunday, 6 April 2008

Bohemian Beelzebubbian Books

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I HAVE BEEN READING some devilish stories in a lovely little book recently. Folktales from Bohemia by Adolf Wenig, illustrated by Josef We...
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Thursday, 3 April 2008

Everything you can imagine is Real

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A GIFT for a friend who has just turned 18... Painted with oils on wood and a quote by Pablo Picasso.
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Sunday, 30 March 2008

Weeds & Wees

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M EDIEVAL HERBALS are things that delight me .. old compendiums of collected folk knowledge about plants and how they can help us, filled w...
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Friday, 28 March 2008

It is Spring

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S COTLAND-IN-SPRING ... this evening there are dripping birds singing evening songs in the dripping leaves as the sun blinks a few times be...
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Sunday, 23 March 2008

Eggs & Serpents

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♥ ♥ ♥ Happy Easter friends! ♥ ♥ ♥ Two egg tales for you today ... First a few pysanky ~ Ukrainian easter eggs, decorated beautifully usi...
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Leg Wheel & Jew Harp

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A BENT AND STRANGE GIRL with legs inspired by my words in the previous post... that perhaps one day my legs might curl up into a circle an...
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Thursday, 13 March 2008

Some turtles have nice shells

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W HEELED HOMES stir something in me, something that is perhaps a mixture of delight in memory, in the imagery of wheels and in all things n...
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Saturday, 8 March 2008

The Animation Attic

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P ARCEL TAPE and cobbled-together ideas of make-do animation studios have, in the past few days and weeks, been sensibly hurled into the R...
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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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