Pretty in Pink

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alpaca, in the pink, pretty in pink, Spring emergence

Alpaca in the pink by Candia Dixon-Stuart

The Lamb

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Easter, halo, lamb, Paschal, radiance, sheep

The Lamb by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Dogwood and Moorhen

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chalk pit lake, Cotswolds, dogwood, moorhen, Nature Reserve

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Angouleme Dreaming

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Angouleme, Charente, city art, trompe d'oeil

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

#TheGreatArtExhibition2021

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#The Great Art Exhibition2021, acrylic painting, animal themes, photographs, SirAnthony Gormley

Sir Anthony Gormley’s art display. The theme for this week is ‘Animals.’

All artwork by Marion Bond

To cheer all of those who miss going to galleries.

@firstsite

The Grasshopper Speaks

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Alpilles, grasshopper, immortality, Impressionism, memento more, Olive trees, plein air painting, Provence, Van Gogh

Van Gogh’s Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background, MOMA. Wikimedia

One leap!  I achieved immortality.

Those flickering olives absorbed his eye.

I chose my sticky end mortality.

He was focussed on that Provencale sky.

The Dutch would use my forebears as a trope:

insect as memento mori (foreground)

but into his painting I interlope,

en plein air, in one bold cicadic bound.

Over-looked for more than a hundred years

by many an art critic, with eye glass,

in the same way as Vincent’s own ideas

were unacknowledged by that dealer class,

now we have received our recognition.

In his painting, I made my impression.

Brief Encounter

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brief encounter, Cass Sculpture Park, Sculpture, social distancing, Sussex

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Alpacas by Moonlight

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alpacas, from my window, l'heure bleue, moonlight

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Missing France

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Cafe life, French bistro, Normandy, postponed travel

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Potholes

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart