I am a child of the North born and schooled in County Durham with my roots firmly embedded in the Mining Industry. My Father worke
The invitation to be surprised? Art that touches the pulse.
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I first came across the work of Barbara Hepworth in 1980 during a visit to Aldeburgh. I had gone on a weekend party to a friend’s house on C
Space, Colour and Form in Kettles Yard : Reading Ways of Life by Laura Freeman
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This book was a present from a friend who had seen that I had visited Kettles Yard some few months ago. I have been hanging onto to it so th
Lingering Ghosts and the challenges of Public Art
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For those of you who know Sarum College you will be aware that we have a long tradition of exhibiting Art. At the moment we are showing
The Windows
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The Windows
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dos
Miro on Ageing
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PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN
When artist Joan Miro was 24 years old, he predicted that he would do his best work in old age.
The exhibitio
Auckland Castle
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I have very vivid memories of visiting Auckland Castle as a sixth form student beginning to wonder about my vocation to the ordained ministry in the C
The genious of Gormley
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I was determined to make a significant detour during August to see some public sculpture on Crosby beach and this short piece gives me
Vacation Surprises : (1) Craigie Aitchison in Glass
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I travelled up to London during my summer holiday to attend a wonderful celebration of marriage of Robin and Sezgi Amos at St Mary the Bolton's in
intricate
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intricate
Intricate and untraceable
weaving and interweaving,
dark strand with light:
designed, beyond
all spiderly contrivance,
to link
roses in sunlight
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roses in sunlight
Our sense of these things changes and they change,
Not as in metaphor, but in our sense
Of them. So sense exceeds all m
Peter Lanyon
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imaginat
Peter Lanyon
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I love surprising discoveries. As a very enjoyable lunch last week in a London restaurant in Notting Hill this particular picture captured my imaginat
thy fearful symmetry
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angel tiger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?
In w
Let us return?
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ultimate blue
Let us return to imperfection's school.
No longer wandering after Plato's ghost,
Seeking the garden where all fruit i
Image of the week : Black on Maroon by Rothko
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This painting comes from one of three series of canvases painted by Rothko in 1958-9 in response to a commission for murals for the small dining roo
Image of the week: A Busy Life by Dubuffett
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Painted in August 1953.
It is one of the series of paintings known as 'Beaten Pastes' (Pâtes battues) executed between March and December
sunflowers and our search for the divine?
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attain God...
he said, then realised
it had been done
with nothing
but sunflowers
from Nicolette Stasko, Conseil de Gauguin (ad
Ways into death and its narratives
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Quietus: The vessel, death and the human body
An exhibition by Julian Stair Winchester Cathedral Autumn 2013
FB friends will have seen som