Today is Ascension Day - here are some arresting and stimulating images to help us into a deeper sense of the meaning of this Feast:
Always Changing
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tree
not even for a moment
do things stand still: look at
colour, in the trees
Seiju, his death poem (d. 1776, age 75)
The radical heart of Epstein
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I have written before about the innovative and attractively modern Art Gallery in Walsall built to house a collection of diverse and powerful range of
The power of Art
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Regular readers of my blog will know of my interest and enthusiasm for art! One of the tasks of the removals people will be to safe guard a number o
Sir Terry Frost
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On Monday I wrote about Terry Frost - and then came across this excellent Obit which is worth reading:
From The Times
September 3, 2003
Sir
Terry Frost
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Packing up home is always an interesting combination of hell and liberation - amongst my clutter are soem lovely Frost images - do you know his work?
The Art Gallery Walsall
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I blogged about the Black Country on Saturday 6th of March. One of the best developments there is the spectacular Art Gallery built in Walsall. Here i
O Greening Branch
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O greening branch!
You stand in your nobility
Like the rising dawn.
Rejoice now and exult
And deign to free the fools we are
From our long slav
David Jones
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After the war, Jones entered the Westminster School of Art, where he developed an interest in Post-Impressionism and studied under the English arti
Rothko
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Mark Rothko (1903 -70) is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. His paintings are famed for their visual inte
Angel of the North
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A short visit to see my parents in the North East gave me a welcome re connection with this amazing, varied place. The A1 north of the Durham servic
Everywhere Orchids
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everywhere, orchids
I think there's a trickster
who wanders the mountains,
with a belt made of ivy
and a cloak of wisteria,
lips always smiling
Henry Cliffe
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Here is another wonderful discovery!!
Henry Cliffe
1919-1983
Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1939-46 served army, met
William Scott in Ruabon,
Roger Hilton
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A visit to catch up with some friends and be present at a wedding anniversary party gave me an opportunity to see the Roger Hilton exhibition (
Kettles Yard
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Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge.
Kettle's Yard was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen. Moving to Cam
Engraving and Printing
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Jenny Uglow is a masterful biographer and historian. She has that ability to so describe a scene, a place, a situation that we are taken beyond the
Jason Hicklin
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My friend Pauline Smith has introduced me to an artist whose work is very evocative. Alas I have only had the chance to see them via his web page - bu
John Piper
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Here is a portrait of a very remarkable man with huge talent for shape, colour and representation. His art is quite profound:
John Egert
The Public
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Not a name for a new newspaper or charity or a headline but the name of a building at the heart of the regeneration of West Bromwich. It houses a publ