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A welcoming gift
9 Jul
I’m reblogging this from Lois Elsdon’s blog because it’s about Welsh cakes – and who doesn’t want to know about Welsh cakes?
I was lucky enough recently to go away with a group of friends to a lovely place where we just wrote, and talked, and thought and imagined, and write, and wandered, and mulled and wrote, and drifted, and bought books, and wrote…
We stayed in a beautiful very old farm which was inspiring in itself, it exuded peace and calm which left minds open and receptive to ideas and with no distractions, apart from glorious views, which were a focus for pondering and thinking before settling back to what we were writing.
There were fresh flowers on the windowsills, some wild and freshly gathered from the sunny banks outside, and a plate of freshly made bakestones, otherwise known as Welsh cakes . They were so delicious they disappeared very rapidly… if I’d thought about it properly, I should have bought some flour and currants when we dropped down to the…
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Bitterns And Stripes
8 Jul
I think I’m falling for those crazy bitterns. I couldn’t take my eyes of them at a recent drawing day at Swansea Museum, they’re awesome…..
I used my Issabey brushes and my home-made walnut ink into a Khadi sketchbook, using the double spread. I focussed on the shape of the group, doing a sort of negative silhouette and using those thick stripes to enhance the composition.
Sheep to Yarn Experiment
7 JunA fascinating blog about one artist’s creative journey from watching sheep being sheared to making art from the wool that she created … and all the learning and processes on the way …
A few years ago (2016) I pondered and acted upon the question “how does one process wool and create yarn?” Thanks to several friends and lots of You Tube searches I set forth on the wool/yarn learning pathway. It’s taken several years and countless hours working with the Physical Therapist (not easy for my spine/back muscles) to reach the spinning stage. A month ago I took a local beginning spinning class which was essential since I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with a borrowed wheel. The process finally is creating yarn! Here are a few highlights from the journey thus far:
Waiting for shearing (Ewes, not the lambs)
Step 1: Have friends with sheep! Especially friends who grow sheep for meat and the wool can ends up composting or on Craigs List. The sheep require a yearly shearing in spring depending on when the lambs are born. This breed…
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A round of updates from FIRE Lab
29 MaySomething about the recent work I’ve been doing with Swansea University’s FIRE Laboratory …
We have been posting on the FIRE Lab blog for around 7 months now, and we recently held a lab meeting, since Sayali returned, and decided we would move to writing a blog post every two weeks instead of weekly. So you will be hearing less from us, but we hope that when do hear from us, we have a lot of exciting things to share!
We also have a few other updates to share as our group continues to grow and so do the interesting research and engagement opportunities.
Last week I walked the Tawe River, starting in Swansea with our collaborator Rose Davies. Rose and I took the opportunity to test out walk and draw as a method for engagement and creative expression as we strolled along the river. Rose has been sharing a few of the lovely sketches she made, and some reflections, from our walk over…
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Fast Woman
12 MayA thought provoking and beautifully drawn artblog from Patti McJones via Fast Woman
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Reflections from the first ‘What is Water?’ event
10 MayA fascinating SciArt project just getting underway in Swansea
We here at FIRE lab held our first ‘What is Water’ event on 26 April at Copper Bar in Swansea. We created this event in part to start conversations about water, and to engage with different relationships that people in Swansea and surrounding communities have with water. Engaging with diverse relationships related to water, particularly fresh water, is a major focus of our work in FIRE Lab. This first event was made possible by funding from Swansea University’s College of Science—International Visitor Scheme, which also supported Dr. Emily O’Gorman’s visit and presentations on water cultures.
Dr. Emily O’Gorman presenting her research reflections on water cultures in Australia (Credit: Geraint Rhys).
Our focus for this event was on poetry and stories, drawing on a strong legacy and history of poetry and spoken word in Swansea. Over the last few months, Tara and Steph attended local poetry open mic nights and…
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Celebrating the drawn line
27 AprA lovely blog from Michael Richards about the joys of drawing via Celebrating the drawn line
Here Be Dragons
Please click on this link, ‘Here Be Dragons’ to see a short film about my giant wood cut which was shown on a recent series on Sky Arts.
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Shameless! Another shameless plug for the Printopia exhibition of work by members of Swansea Print Workshop at The Seaside Gallery, Volcano, High Street, Swansea. It opens on Thursday 4th July, with cake and nibbles and a pay bar, and continues until 26th July. The Big ‘Un And my great big woodcut, “Here Be Dragons” has […]
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