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the ceramicist Madelaine Murphy

gave me this ....

a beautiful ceramic shrine

barely eight centrimetres high:

what do you put in a shrine?

I started to think about what I love:

things I hold dear:

and started to photograph them:

then I printed them really really small:

 printed some ribbon with qualities that aspire:

 and sent a photo of it, back to Madelaine:

now it's mine to keep:

the goddess of small things:

■▹◎ multi faceted

my town is full of interesting and creative people:

it's fascinating to see how they work:

I first met Brian Parker when he was 

dancing as part of an interactive exhibition:

he told me about his passion 

for painting and his search for the

'perfect line':

the way I see it

his latest exhibition at Studio Eleven :

 

the four seasons:

tetraptych of pattern and shade:

local scenes made graphic:

quirky screen prints:

tactile shaped ceramics:

photogramancy

layered abstract acrylics:

does this man ever stand still?

eclectic and considered:

one to watch:

one to go see:

{} dem bones

quite some years ago 

I had a back problem:

it meant I couldn't wear backless shoes

or sit cross legged for years:

a herniated disc:

it's painful and boring:

and has returned:

just when I have lots of brilliant

things to be part of:

yoga is helping:

but restless sleep is zzzz

⚃⚃ roll the dice

do you ever get times

when you're just not feeling it?

it's bubbling under there

somewhere

but you're just not ready

yet:

you know when it does come

you will be 

on it

and your feet won't touch the ground

you'll pile on extra

with cherries on the top:

{until then I'll watch clouds in silence}

☝ by Madelaine Murphy

photographed by me:

『[‖/ brush up on my field work

new exhibition at the Tap gallery until 4th June:

Fields

curated by Lee Sullivan

explores the possibilities of the visual field:

{scale is not apparent in these images

so I'll start with the smaller pieces}

orion

by Lee Sullivan:

brutal edifices made simple

with determined strokes:

how I learnt to stop worrying and make a print

by Lee Sullivan:

fragile prints remembering ruins,

real and imagined afterworlds:

building sites in green and blue:

salt lake, carbon class

by Claire Barnett:

crystal folded forms transform the 

two dimensional to three:

crystallised:

echo park:

a new landscape constructed:

{details}

reconstructed from found images:

keira

by David Watkins:

now these are big:

{David always does big}

free and flowing:

like satellite images of unseen routes:

kev

vast trails over hidden paths:

 maps in the desert

or under the sea:

layer on linear layer:

otherworldly:

go see for yourself:

☛☚ read all about it

the postman brought me a parcel:

and it raised a squeal:

I knew it was coming:

but I've had to wait:

 newspaper edition:

this is it as I unwrapped it

from it's polythene bag:

 trademark Donwood stamps:

miniature:

 underneath ~ the cd:

 underneath that ~ the records:

two of them:

in clear vinyl: {retro}

 the b sides:

the newspaper:

details:

oh yes I do:

best {belated} birthday present:

∞ mr & mrs

I didn't watch the royal wedding:

I was busy making punkcakes:

it got me remembering my 

own nuptials:

a small gathering:

 you never forget that day:

away from the media circus:

I hope the royal couple allow for growth:

make space for the new:

keep their individuality

and work as a couple:

hopefully their marriage will

last longer than mine:

but I am happy to turn the

page with a smile:

ᐳᐳ acrobatics

swifts returned to my sky today:

I've been told it's the same date

as last year:

watch them dive in the changing sky:

⧦ birthday bloom

when you're a child

you can't wait for your birthday:

as you get older

it doesn't seem so important

to mark another year:

better it float past

like blossoms on a breeze: