come fly with me, again
November 30, 2010
She’s flying again, in coats of many colours…………… felt a creative need to try out different image layers.
come fly with me, its easy
November 20, 2010
Created a clay sculpture form, she is hanging trapeze like under my arching floorlamp. I adore the naked form, and she fills me with feelings of freedom. I took a photo, layered with image of the conntryside at the long man of wilmington and hey presto………………………..
Levi van Veluw
February 5, 2010
There is no need for words………….. click in images to read more.
KATE MACDOWELL
February 2, 2010
In the words of C S Lewis “We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words–to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it”.
In Kate’s own words. “Simpact on the environment. These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops. They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other cultural touchstones. In some pieces aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current relationship with the natural world. In others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats. In each case the union between man and nature is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practices”.
Masculine form
January 14, 2010
Playing with clay, it so wonderful to hold the red earth in your hand, hold a vision in your heart, and slowly let your fngers sculpt a shape that holds great power………. Creative expression is such a release………………..
kathy dalwood studio blog
November 21, 2009
I came across Kathy’s inspiring blog this morning, sipping my coffee, reading emails, checking through updates etc, as one does, croissant dunking with one hand and tapping with the other. Wonderful creative image this, an idyllic french mademoiselle is being revealed in the cast concrete…….. an extreme hard edge material. Her soft smooth flesh, her alluring smile, the swirling swag of her skirt, the delicate flowers……. all so perfect. There are many like this fully completed and more, I recommend you visit her site, there is much here to inspire
Persephone
November 8, 2009
`playing with a ball of clay this afternoon, cant believe she appeared, a sense of real strength sprung from my fingers, she feels so free, so free its scary, there is a part of me thats down with Persephone ………….
Addendum: I just realised that I went to see Julia Cameron speak (artists way book) the previous day, it was quite challenging and bought up a lot of childhood images, I see now my “form” is my unconscious self that is bursting to get out. There is nothing to be afraid of.
Prayer to Persephone
Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, “My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, “My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
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adoration
February 24, 2009
This is a sketch I have done, it forms part of a larger sketch of a mass of entwined bodies. The idea came to me as I was doodling around on a piece of paper whilst chatting on the phone. I saw this mass as a kind of huge conical shape rising from a wide based pedestal, sculpted from fine porcelain and glazed white. Just like a huge cake !! I hope to get around to doing that one day…………………. I love to paper cut but not sure this would transfer to that medium, perhaps I should try.
