April 2011
1 post
Photography by Angeles Pena
anpena
February 2011
3 posts
Anatomy of a Linocut by Bill Fick from Jim Haverkamp on Vimeo.
Soloman Islands People
Online Archive of California
Irish Travelling Family
Photos by Willem van de Poll
January 2011
2 posts
Succulents 01
Started getting into buying old pots off of ebay and filling them with interesting succulents.
FENESTRARIA AURANTIACA
ECHEVERIA CLAVATA
CONOPHYTUM PEERSII
ALOINOPSIS RUBROLINEATA
Angie Lewin - Plants and Places
Open publication - Free publishing - More screenprint
October 2010
4 posts
Pierres Graphiques by Yoran Morvant
Purchase
Photography by Will Govus
Govus
fforest
Lurking in the midst of ancient 200-acre woodland on the banks of the River Teifi, is the Fforest campsite. Run by Cold At Night, the campsite offers an upmarket camping experience in a stunning part of Wales.
It’s still camping, but only the best bits. The birdsong alarm call, the bluebell walk to the bathroom, freshly brewed coffee in the morning, kids running through the fields with new...
Tarkovsky's Polaroids
Andrei Tarkovsky is considered by many to be the most influential Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era. As Ingmar Bergman once said, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” In films such as Solaris, The Mirror, Nostalghia, and The Sacrifice, his poetic, wide-angle shots...
May 2010
1 post
March 2010
21 posts
Edward Thomas - The Combe
The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark. Its mouth is stopped with bramble, thorn and briar, And no-one scrambles over the sliding chalk By beech and yew and perishing juniper Down the half precipices of its sides, with roots And rabbit holes for steps. The sun of winter The moon of summer, and all the singing birds Except the missel-thrush that loves the juniper Are quite shut out. But...
Andrew Young: Wiltshire Downs
The cuckoo’s double note Loosened like bubbles from a drowning throat Floats through the air In mockery of pipit, lark and stare. The stable boys thud by Their horses slinging divots at the sky And with bright hooves Printing the sodden turf with lucky grooves. As still as a windhover A shepherd in his napping coat leans over His tall sheep-crook And shearlings, tegs and yoes cons like a...
Siegfried Sassoon: On Scratchbury Camp
Along the grave green downs, this idle afternoon, Shadows of loitering silver clouds, becalmed in blue, Bring, like unfoldment of a flower, the best of June. Shadows outspread in spacious movement, always you Have dappled the downs and valleys at this time of year, While larks, ascending shrill, praised freedom as they flew. Now, through that song, a fighter squadron’s drone I hear ...
Edward Thomas: Man and Dog
“‘TWILL take some getting.” “Sir, I think ‘twill so.” The old man stared up at the mistletoe That hung too high in the poplar’s crest for plunder Of any climber, though not for kissing under: Then he went on against the north-east wind— Straight but lame, leaning on a staff new-skinned, Carrying a brolly, flag-basket, and old coat,— Towards Alton,...
Rudyard Kipling: The Run of the Downs
The Weald is good, the Downs are best—- I’ll give you the run of ‘em, East to West. Beachy Head and Winddoor Hill, They were once and they are still. Firle Mount Caburn and Mount Harry Go back as far as sums ‘1l carry. Ditchling Beacon and Chanctonbury Ring They have looked on many a thing, And what those two have missed between ‘em I reckon Truleigh Hill has seen...
Flora Thompson: Home Thoughts from the Desert
In Hampshire now, the woods are brown, The heath-sands tawny-gold with rain; The mist lies blue on Bratley Down, The firelight flecks the window pane- In Hampshire now!
The wind comes screaming from the sea, The wild sea-horses champ and roar, And every oak on Dudman’s Lea Echoes the tumult of the shore- In Hampshire now!
The ‘Wight lies wrapt in cloud and mist, Scarce once a...
The South Country
Inspired by the recent republication of Edward Thomas’s essay collection The South Country, the weekly sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrates the landscape of southern England, in particular three counties in which the poet loved to walk: Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
Tamsin Greig and Neil Pearson read prose by fellow observer-wanderers Gilbert White, William...
Justin Partyka
Justin Partyka’s work is finally beginning to garner the attention it deserves. A superbly sensitive photographer of landscapes and people, Partyka takes pictures that are mysterious and tinged with melancholy. His studies of East Anglian farmers are extraordinarily natural and dignified, while he is also adept at capturing the eloquent sky of this part of England, by...
Ian Phillips
“I walk with my sketchbook looking for colourful patterns and strong simple shapes that capture my attention. These I record as a black and white line drawing with notes on colour and atmosphere. Using this drawing as the basis for my lino prints I attempt to distill the beauty of a place to its essence whilst retaining some topographical and seasonal accuracy.”
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February 2010
12 posts
She is so cool
Skoonberg
DESPITE three retrospective exhibitions, one at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne in 1952, a year after her death, followed by another at the Arts Council in St James’s Square, London and a third more comprehensive show at the Towner Art Gallery in 1987, the name of Tirzah Garwood is still little known beyond the circle of her family, surviving friends and a few passionate admirers. Her...
Paul Nash - The Elements @ Dulwich Picture Gallery
Paul Nash (1889 – 1946) painted beautiful landscapes of the Downs, strange flooded rooms, and classic images of two World Wars. The exhibition includes paintings, watercolours and photographs from the whole of his career, showing how he selected elementary objects, to put them in relationships of conflict or harmony, and found pathways, nests...
Edward Bawden’s House
“In December 1989, Olive Smith asked me if I would photograph the interior of Edward Bawden’s house in Saffron Walden, Essex, following his death on November 21st, aged 87. I had never met Edward, but admired his style, his imagination and the skilled craftsmanship he brought to his artwork in a variety of visual media. I agreed instantly.
From the...
The Wild Places of Essex
Multi-award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane sets out on a journey to explore the unexpected landscapes and natural history of Essex, revealing that there is far more to the county than the stereotypes of white stilettos and boy racers.
Macfarlane spends a year travelling the county’s strange and elemental landscapes of heavy industry, desolate beaches and wild...
Faber’s 80th anniversary poetry covers
Faber invited a selection of prominent illustrators and printmakers to create the covers for the series; the results include a striking series of woodcut and linocut designs.
Robert Tavener
Born in London, after war service he attended Hornsey College of Art (1946-1950). He was head of Printmaking at Eastbourne College of Art and Design from 1953, later becoming vice principal until he retired in 1980. He also taught at St. Martins School of Art.
Tavener was well known for his illustration work and commissions for organisations such as Shell, the BBC, and London...
On The Grid
On the Grid, a project by Adam Ryder and Brian Rosa, explores the landscape immediately surrounding high-tension electric transmission lines in Rhode Island. Starting near the Ocean State Power facility in Burnllville, Ryder and Rosa spent several days walking along various sites of this arterial infrastructure. Sites were chosen though surveying publicly available aerial...
The LA Times’ Tree of the Week feature is pretty interesting
“Holm is an old English word for holly. Leaves, especially young ones, of this evergreen tree may have spiny pointed lobes and resemble holly leaves. At first glance this tree looks like our coast live oak, but it is denser, more grayish green, and it lacks the open grace of our native tree. Holly oak is one of more than...
Photos of Brick Lane Market by Sarah Ainslie.
This is exactly how I remember the market when I used to go there in the early 90’s.
January 2010
29 posts
Country Bizarre presented by excellent blog Caught by the River
Shingle Street on BBC Radio 4
Dungeness is place to listen and to watch. It is a place to watch new land being made by the sea’s shovelling of shingle; a place to watch the manufacture of power, a place to watch the migrating birds and moths find a transitory refuge. But watching is about far more than just looking, as writer and naturalist Paul Evans reveals in this powerful and haunting...
The BBC’s trailer for the Winter Olympics in pretty darn good
Made by Studio AKA and Jon Klassen
Emile Hyperion Dubuisson
And I thought I was cold….
I really like the RSPB’s new Bird Identifier
Helped me identify this pigeon
(only kidding…)