Tag Archives: art

COASTAL CURRENTS ARTS FESTIVAL

On the beach at Hastings there are a series of very tall black huts that are/were used to dry fishing nets. The base of them measures 8 feet by 8 feet. A group calling themselves Eight Foot Square are doing a whole series of events during the Coastal Currents Arts Festival that are only restricted [...]

FIDDLING WITH AN OLD TUNA CAN

The latest offering from the Daddy Papersurfer Sculpture Studio.

I love it when the plinth takes longer to make than the deep and meaningful piece of art that is displayed upon it.
This work makes wide sweeping comments about convenience food, modern packaging, the meaning and importance of intimate and loving relationships, the place of re-cycling in [...]

HANGING OFF THE WALLS

I wandered round the very expansive Cliff Top Residence yesterday to review what we have hanging on the walls in the form of artwork. Surprisingly the vast majority is original artwork. Some of mine, bits and pieces we’ve picked up from auctions, and several contemporary pictures done by friends and family. There is only one [...]

WITCH HAZEL

Witch Hazel was really not nice
Always quite free with advice
With warts oh so hairy
I found her quite scary
Unpleasant to be quite precise.
Her demeanour was very abrupt
Her temper was primed to erupt
I admit to my shame
And I know it sounds lame
That I avoided her and her ‘disrupt’.
She died with nobody there
Her cupboards were cobwebbed and bare
But [...]

THE FOUR GINGERNUTS OF THE APOCALYPSE

It was very tricky to find a reddish one, a blackish one, a pale-ish one and a whitish one but, as you can clearly see, I managed in the end. (It leaps off the page, Peabrain. Lo,TG Ed)
My dedication to art is unlimited ……….
[I am, as we speak, peeling the glue off the gingernuts, so [...]

GOOD CHEER ….. [and cheers]

Whether a birthday present  from a French sophisticate arrives to greet you when you get back from holiday…..

……. or if presents arrive very late from a teen of the 70’s ……

…… it cheers you up no end – whatever the weather is like [wet and windy ever since we returned ………. tsk].
Thanks, Blogworld goddesses ………. [...]

I WAS WONDERING ………

……… if other people write snippets like this …….
He was pleased he lived in 2078 and could take advantage of the advances in medical science.
The arm that had been grafted onto his nose held the bow, while his left arm fired arrows at the art thieves. He carried on painting as usual.
He hadn’t been [...]