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Winter Light

In winter, though the quantity of the light is small, I try to appreciate the quality of the light. Watery, oh so soft, diffused, horizontal. The pink blush of a frosty morning. Unless I wake at 4 or 5am, I don’t get to see this rare, ephemeral light in Summer. So, in Winter, I try …

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White and Light

I had a day of white and light. Near enough to Imbolc, the light starting to seep in at the edges of each day. The beginning of the beginning of Spring. The time of a little hope. The day had been predicted- a full array of heart gladdening yellow suns at every hour on the …

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Inaugural ‘Paper-Ink-Print’ Festival at the Landmark Arts Centre, South West London, 17th-19th March

Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington, South West London has already amassed a formidable reputation for quality art fairs and festivals via it’s annual Spring and Autumn art fairs, and now it’s created the first ‘Paper-Ink-Print Festival’ to celebrate, and give a platform to, all things that involve paper and ink- prints, paper making, art on …

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Reframing the Landscape: ‘Digging Deep’ at the RWA and ‘Spirit of Place’ by Susan Owens

As a landscape artist I was interested to visit the Royal West of England Academy exhibition ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’ (now finished). By chance, as is so often the way, I was also part way through ‘Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape’ by Susan Owens. The two combined set …

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