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Category Archives: Making changes
Loving Vincent
One more quick one before I go away…my friend and I saw the premier of Loving Vincent on Monday. It was played live from the National Gallery to selected cinemas around the country and it came to Exeter. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged animation, art, films, illustration, Loving Vincent, oils, painting, Vincent can Gogh
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Sailing and sowing
The summer holidays are drawing to a close. School re-starts on Tuesday. The fantastic weather over the bank holiday was a great way to end and was worth all the previous weeks of dreariness. We finally launched a little sailing … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged allotment patch, back to school, boat, front door, kindness, renovation, sailing, sea, summer holidays, water, waves, yellow
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Postscript
As a postscript to my last post, I was recently reading about the cities of the world with the most trees. There’s a very cool-looking website put together by MIT called Treepedia where they are charting the green canopy of … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged Access to Nature, green canopy, green spaces, MIT, Treepedia, Vancouver
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Rogationtide
A blog I love to read is called Dove Grey Reader Scribbles, written by a community nurse living in the Tamar valley. It’s mostly about books but she also sometimes writes about the countryside around her. A while ago she … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged animals, bear, beating the bounds, Brunel, carnivores, children, church, common seal, community nurse, devon, Dover Grey Reader Scribbles, education, evolution, fields, gardens, Hannah Foley, horse, horticulture, illustration, illustrator, kids, lion, natural history, odd-toed ungulates, orchards, plymouth, railway, rhino, rhinoceros, rogationtide, steve roud, Tamar valley, the english year, tithe maps, tithes, wolf
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Transforming Conflict
Here’s a piece of work I did back in February for the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) for their annual conference called Transforming Conflict. This illustration was massively inspired by a wonderful piece of film created by Felipe Bustos … Continue reading
Storage…again!
I have been making draw string bags for the kids to hang on their coat pegs in the hall and store their seasonal gear in. I’m so tired of bundles of scarves, hats and gloves being wedged on top of … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged antechamber, benches, bike, buggy, children, cleaning, clown, cubby holes, entrances, family, genkan, hoovering, house entrance, houses, illustration, Janome, japan, japanese, Keep the Heid, Lakeland, mud, parenting, pigeon holes, porch, radiators, repairs, SCCR, scooter, seasonal kit, sewing machine, storage, wellies
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Forest of the Imagination
Just a quick heads up about an arts event happening in Bath this weekend. If you happen to be in the area a dear friend of ours has been involved in organising the Forest of Imagination, a pop-up multi-disciplinary arts … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged arts event, bath, children, families, forest of imagination, South West
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Conflict and the Brain
In my last post I told you about illustrations I’d done for a web game for the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) and a second part of the commission was to produce a poster that explained the biology behind … Continue reading
Monkey vs Lizard
This is a screen shot from a commission I completed recently for the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR). It was part of a project that aimed to help people understand the impact of conflict on brain development. The SCCR … Continue reading
Skipping lessons
Did you ever play skipping games as a child? I did. I especially loved the long rope games where two children would turn the rope for the others. Even better was when we had two long ropes turned between each … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged arrival of spring, bees, birds, butterflies, childhood, devon, England, games, illustration, long ropes, memories, moving house, nature, nesting, out of step, scotland, skipping, sweetness
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