I spent a lovely few hours with my friend Alison in her studio last week, building up the layers to make Christmas images like the one above. I’d missed the last class in our Watercolours…
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Another passage from Karl Olve Knausgaard’s A Man in Love (the 2nd volume of his My Struggle series) illustrates some of that gradual fading we observe of the intensity of a time away from home, the remembered…
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Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…
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I’ve almost finished the Paris exhibition post I committed to a week or so ago, revealing the name of the artist whose work I teased you with, and sharing our approach to art expo visits…
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If you came here via Lisa’s for a peek in my autumn garden, I’ll open the gate for you to walk right through. Mind the thorns on that rose; I really must trim that back! …
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