Samuel Beckett- in colour

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acrylics, Irish dramatists, portraiture, Samuel Beckett

Acrylics and charcoal by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Spark Plug Sheep

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Cotswolds, James Corbett, John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Sculpture, sheep

…another James Corbett Sculpture from the John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswolds

James Corbett Sculpture

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automobile sculpture, Cotswolds, David Corbett, Gloucestershire, Jhn Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh

                             Made in Australia but exhibited @The John Davies Gallery,

                              Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.

                              Photos by Candia

Buscot House, Cotswolds

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Buscot House, Buscot Park, Cotswolds, Lord Faringdon, Oxfordshire

Painting and Prisma Variations by Candia Dixon-Stuart

The Man Who Threaded Words

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boteh, braes, Burns, Caledonia, cloths of Heaven, dragon's teeth, Ferguslie, Mount Olympus, Paisley, peesweeps, Robert Tannahill, Scottish poets, Skylarks, weaver poet, Woodside

 

The man who threaded words together, like

silk yarns in a Paisley shawl, showed respect

for his woven jacket and removed it,

carefully, with his silver watch, before

quietly lying down in a culvert,

no longer walking iambically.

 

A lass singing his lyrics ambled by;

muffled clacks from cottage shuttles faded.

The lava tide which slumbered in his soul

erupted and he saw Mount Olympus

and heard himself ask the gods for a bard

in Caledonia.  They said, Not one,

but two are granted: Burns and your good self.

In fact, your verses, like sharp dragon’s teeth,

when sown in the ploughed minds of your peers,

will multiply the poets of your land.

Where the peesweeps and the shy skylarks soar

your resting place will be; no unmarked grave

will contain you: this tunnel’s mouth no stop

for such as your unlimping lines.  And now

Paisley Buddy, you are transformed into

the waft of wild mountain thyme on the braes;

the arabesque of a bent cedar tree;

the elongated curve of a boteh,

such as you might have patterned on your loom,

or incorporated into a phrase

now echoing in the winds of Woodside,

or whispering through fogs in Ferguslie.

 

Tannahill, you wove the cloths of heaven

into Scotland’s literary fabric.

 

Photo by stephencdickson – Wikipedia

 

 

Floral Cheer

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acrylics, Prisma, Sotis Filippides vase, tulips

Photo, painting and Prisma Variations by Candia

Fauve Sunset

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acrylics, Fauve, mountains, painting, photo-editing, wilderness

This gallery contains 5 photos.

Original painting and Variations by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Festive Still Life

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pastel drawing, Prisma, still life

From a pastel drawing by Candia Dixon-Stuart. All rights reserved.

Giclee prints available

Antalaya Marina with Scooter

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Antalaya, Ataturk, Prisma, scooter, Turkey

Photo and Prisma Images by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Goldengrove Unleaving

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acrylics, Autumn, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Goldengrove

 

Painting by Candia based on car park photo taken and published last Sunday.

Apologies to Gerard Manley Hopkins!