The Hermitage
Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Oil paint for the ears, spring flowers for the sorrows

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T HERE ARE WHITE FLOWERS growing beautifully about this rusty old wheel at the front of our truck, but I haven't had a chance to go and...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Tree Studio

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T UCKED AWAY behind a crumble-down barn, with a logpile, a rusted wheeled farm machine and newly budding trees for neighbours we look out o...
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009

A house on your back

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T HIS MAN CARRIES his house on his back in a drawing just completed by me for a nice lady* who asked me to make her a drawing for her house...
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Saturday, 28 March 2009

Tiny corners of our home in sunlight after rain

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T HIS WAY There are crisscross shadows on the curtains The kettle is always on Green light shines through old wine bottles full of olive oil...
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Sunday, 22 March 2009

Tales of third eyes, injector pipes, duck eggs, childrens' drawings, and some other lovely things...

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T HIS IS A SNIPPET O F A JUST BEGUN PAINTING of a white-haired owl-riding lady pointing at a place on her forehead where some believe we ha...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009

The Avocado Tree Clock

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O NCE UPON O'CLOCK whilst tending to their flock two shepherd girls came upon a tree. Its fruits were blackish green with a crocodil...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Trees

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T REES . I love them. Especially when they are next to other trees. Standing in a forest feels like being stood over kindly by a huddle of g...
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009

View through the portholes

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L OOK ! Can you see through these porthole-goggles? It's the sea! Outside our round windows there are seagulls and seamist and seasongs ...
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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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