The third J is for Jenny . . .

This Jenny refers to Jenny Kee  and her autobiography A Big Life. I was going to start my review of this book by saying that here is a woman who is not going to die wondering what she could have done, she has gone ahead and done it.  She appears to have had an extremely…

Have you done marbling?

When our children were little we did marbling with them as I had done marbling with children in my classes when I was a teacher.  It is a lovely activity to do as it requires very little skill. 🙂 It produces some beautiful results.  In the olden days marbing papers used to be used as…

The Art of Australia

For those of you in Australia this post is for you as I don’t think overseas readers will be able to access the program. Last Tuesday on ABC television there was a program called The Art of Australia.  I had programmed the calendar on my phone to alert me when it was on but my…

Treasure the simple things

Yesterday morning my husband brought me a present. He found this little feather in the garden and it is a beautiful blue.  You can’t see it in the photo but in the direct sunlight it is almost iridescent. Over the years I have accumulated a collection of bits and pieces from the garden and elsewhere….

Tuesday Travels – Pont-Aven

A visit to another beautiful village in Brittany.  This lovely little village is well known in Brittany for the proliferation of artists who live or used to live in the vicinity and have used picturesque Pont-Aven as their source of inspiration.  The most famous of the artists is Paul Gauguin.  At the various sites which…

Harley Davidson design.

Something a little different today. Cannes Lion winning print campaign for Harley Davidson Parts and Accessories. They dismantled each bike down to the core and arranged the pieces organically to create portraits of the individuals who own the bikes. ↬ lucky clover