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My favourite commission
and some thoughts on
bespoke work in general :)
a country distraction ~
creating a home for
Rennaldburn's
starlings
To our winged ancestors
from a timeless, summery
Somerset garden.
A few images
from the state of
mind called Bali
Another wintery
guest post by
Cathy van Hoppe
A Christmas dream painting
and a Sweet Chestnut Path
dream timelapse
the inauguration
of Altair air Abhainn ~
Alter by the water
Fu Hsi and Nu Gua
Ancient founders of the
I Ching in cast glass
focus on
the floor of
my studio
a mandala
to re-set our relationship
with time and our one
precious life
A creative relationship
with time
In celebration
of all things light,
bright and summery
The River Ribble
is the location for a video
of the Rodriguez song
Two video sketches
from our mistical valley
The snowy stanes
A little video shot on a
beautiful solstice morning
An Imbolc offering
to the beloved Celtic
Triple Goddess
High with me
A dream drawing
timelapse inaugurates
this blog reborn :)
An Eskdalemuir angel
timelapsed for
the feast of lights
The long read
An article on dreaming wisdom,
the I Ching and African Dream
Root, first published in Caduceus
The ancient origins
of the I Ching ~ a
little video, part of my
ongoing work with it.
ancestral wisdom
A timelapse of following
dream guidance with art
About the exhibition
Some multimedia musings on the
Shambhala at Shambellie experience.
A new Animus exhibition
A little about Shambala
and the making of a
cast glass piece.
If I have a guiding principle
in life, it's death. Music video for
Emma Gillespie's beautiful song.
A painting timelapse
of a six-foot long piece
for Rennaldburn's
tiniest room
Illuminating the Book of Love
A music video for the
song by Oisin HendriX
Cathy Van Hoppe
tells a Winter tale
first in a series
of dream-drawing timelapses
I'll be uploading now and then.
Illuminating the Book of Love
It’s been an age since I’ve blogged about any of my own artwork.
Though I’ve been quite prolific recently, one way or another, I always seem to be involved in what I’m realising just may be a lifetime process of figuring out just what kind of artist I am.
With work ranging from camera-less (and, just occasionally, camera-assisted) photography, writing, cast and fused glass and illuminated etching to tree mandalas, house-sized earth-pigment murals and a soupçon of mainly secret songwriting, I sometimes end up oscillating between the ‘time-to-focus-on-one-modality’ view, and the ‘embrace-all-the-seemingly-disparate-strands-as-they’re-beginning-to-form-a-coherent-world’ one.
I’m beginning to feel more at home with the second option, which requires a deeper faith, both in myself and in life itself...as well as continual experimentation with ways to hone in on points of focus within this expansive view so it doesn’t all disperse into the void, stay hovering on the surface or disappear down irrelevant tangents.
Whatever my medium, I like to think of myself as an illustrator in the original sense of the word as one who illuminates. In this light, here’s a moving illustration I’ve just uploaded...more commonly known as a music video. When I recorded contemporary troubadour Oisin playing this song ~ one of his epic ballads ~ at Rennaldburn last Summer, at a fireside Mabon celebration, I knew it was something I’d like to try to do justice to.
Let me know if I have!
