Pandemic Pastimes

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absorption, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, Old Masters, pandemic pastimes, re-interpretation, reading

Photo I captured of a paper napkin my friend issued me yesterday. It apparently came from the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, so full marks to the artist and some free publicity!

Organ Pipes

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Buckland St Mary church, church organ, organ pipes

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Avebury Reflections

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after Monet, Avebury Manor, l'heure bleue, pond reflections, water lilies

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Spinebills, NSW

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acrylic painting, Australian birds, Banksia, flora and fauna, NSW, spinebills

Spinebills, NSW. Paintings by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Land Girl

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allotments, Cotswolds, Filkins, Land Girl, NGS, Oxfordshire, scarecrow

In Filkins Allotments, Oxfordshire

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Asthall Manor

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Alconleigh, Asthall Manor, BBC drama, childhod home, Mitford sisters, Oxfordshire, Pursuit of Love

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Komorebi

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Impressionism, komorebi, nystagmus, parasols, pixels, Pointillist

Wikimedia- Madame Monet and her son

Another leftover poem from my series a couple of years ago.

Komorebi is

a word for dappled light seen

under, or through trees.

The Impressionists caught it

in flickering strokes,

or in Pointillist pixels.

Women’s parasols

shielded them from nystagmus.

Wide-brimmed hats stilled the dancing

tones’ fluctuations.

Yet the bare-headed shimmer

and they scintillate

with the mirage of brief youth

and half-realisation.

Unicorn

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christmas ornament, close observation, discovery, happenstance, magic, Sculpture, serendipity, simple pleasure, unicorn, value, worth

Went to a sculpture exhibition this week where some exhibits were tens of

thousands of pounds.

At the end, I wandered into the field where we had parked and saw a table

with plants, which I mistakenly thought might be for sale.

In the bushes beside the table was this little magical object- plastic- attached to

a fir branch which might have been part of an old discarded Xmas tree.

I actually had as much pleasure in serendipitously discovering and

photographing this small talisman, worth about 5p!

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Pheasants

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acrylic painting, changing one's mind, game birds, pheasants, self-criticism

When you paint over a previous painting as you no longer rate it! Then you wish that you hadn’t?

Acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

wraptious.com/competition

One of my designs

You have to leave a like on the site, not on here! Thanks!

Hi, dear followers!

This week I won an art competition and so, fired up with success, I have entered

5 of my designs on the above site.

The prize is to be taken on as a designer on their site- they produce cushions,

prints, etc etc

For every sale they plant 3 trees.

Now, I am not expecting anyone to buy anything, but the prize is awarded

according to ‘likes’ on your mocked- up product, not on any sales. In fact, I

believe that they produce the competitors’ products for the duration of the

competition, but only the 3 prize-winners are taken on permanently.

I entered 5 of my designs to see how they would do. I do not have a very

big Facebook following- deliberately, but I wondered if some of my wordpress

readers would take a look and give me some likes.

I do not really like these systems and would rather just be judged by a panel,

but it seems it is the way things are handled.

If you can’t be bothered, that’s fine!

Wraptious only register the likes on their Facebook site at facebook.com/wraptious/posts/4204537399608686

The number code is for my designs, under the name Marion Bond

Thanks, guys!