Summer’s Lease Hath All Too Short A Day

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Autumn, decay, end of summer, every fair from fair sometime declines, momento mori, nasturtium, poignant beauty, Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, still life

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Parp! Parp!

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Highnam Court Gardens, Kenneth Grahame, Mr Toad, parp parp!, Rolls Royce, Toad, Toad Hall, Wind in the Willows, wooden sculpture

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Coronet

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Frankfurt-am-Main, gentleman, Goethe, silhouette, upcycling

Artwork by Candia Dixon-Stuart

I did this silhouette drawing based on a postcard that I bought

at the Goethe House in Frankfurt in 1970. I decided to upcycle it

with a bit of photo manipulation and the addition of a wonky

crown.

Bookshop Floor

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bookshop, carp, flooring, interior design, lily pond, water lilies

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Little Match Girl

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child labour, fairy tale, grandmother, Hans Christian Andersen, Little Match Girl, salvation

Acylic Painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Rapunzel

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acrylic painting, Fairy Tale series, Grimms Fairy Tales, long hair, Rapunzel, witch

Hannah More (1745-1833)

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anti-slavery, bas bleu, Belmont, Blagdon, Clapham set, Cowslip Green, Fishponds, Hannah More, Mendip Hills, nervous breakdown, philanthropist, religious tracts, Tyntesfield, Walpole

Hannah More by Pickersgill

A quennet for a woman who made a fortune with her pen:

 

fourth daughter   Gloucestershire born   Mendip Hills

poetic landscape

religious tracts   pastoral plays   Sunday education

nervous collapse

‘strange affair’    Bleeding Rock   jilted female

small annuity

bas bleu

Blagdon cottage

Clapham Sect

petticoat bishop

Cowslip Green

anti-slavery

bold philanthropist

strange plays   female education    pastoral landscape

religious rock.

 

 

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!

Pointless Things

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concrete operational, fascinators, list poem, pet hates, Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon, trout pout

I think I wrote this poem based on an entry in The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon,

which was a list of ugly things. I tried to bring it up to date with pet hates of the

20th and 21st century.

Juxtaposing hair

which is unkempt with fine clothes;

a fascinator

on a helmet-like mullet;

hand-made paper spoiled

by spidery handwriting;

low-cut brides kneeling

in front of praying vicars;

presenting logic to the

concrete operational,

who try to pretend

that they understand;

a trout-pout selfie taken

by a narcissist – tramp-stamped,

and no Spring chicken either.

 

 

 

Psalm 95 v 7

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Cotswold churches, pasture, Psalm 95, sheep, stained glass

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart