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Category Archives: About artists.
Uncivil.
If you have just watched Civilisations rise and fall because I mentioned it, I am very sorry for wasting an hour of your life that you’ll not get back. Quite how you are able to make the sack of Rome, … Continue reading
Art and Tuscany.
Apologies for the radio silence. I am healing from my ‘orrible injury and was, as usual, trying to do everything. I sent a card to someone also having health problems and, having advised them to rest, realised I was not … Continue reading
Tuscan sketchbook.
Although bits of the holiday were not that good, especially the journeys and injury, nothing could detract from the incredible scenery. I had paid for everyone to go to the Uffizi, which would have been better not on the first … Continue reading
Fall over oween.
I went on holiday. So far so good. I haven’t had a holiday since 2008, when I went to Australia to meet my new rellies, when my cousin married an Australian. Good so far. I came back from Italy, spiritual … Continue reading
Soft shoe shuffle.
Do you remember this? It is a vegetable crate pram which I made for a collector. Many collectors like their dolls to be neat clean, pretty and living well in miniature but Anne had other ideas. ‘I have always been … Continue reading
Cornel’s Creations.
Years ago in the noughties, when I was reporting Miniatura for magazines and exhibiting with an assistant, I was able to see the whole show, talk to exhibitors and meet my collectors. Now, exhibiting alone, with three hours set up … Continue reading
Hordle Castle.
As you walked into the recent Autumn Miniatura at Stoneleigh this is what you would have seen: Isn’t this absolutely fantastic? This is Hordle Castle, a work in progress, possibly for a lifetime, by Jon Trenchard. Autumn Miniatura was the … Continue reading
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Tagged dolls house, Hordle Castle, Jon Trenchard, Miniatura, stately home
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Moulds, cards and dolls.
You may have noticed a slight silence from me. I have been mould making for the new dolls for Miniatura, which is just a few weeks away. I’m probably a bit late starting. After the last show I had a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Griffin, card making, craft on TV, Dolls, Miniatura
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The last place (part 2, the second bit, B)
Me and Cleopatra, just like that. Me and Mark Anthony, even closer. The other way of finding things you have lost, for the creatives among us, is to spend sixteen years (seventeen in September) writing a blog. As you do. … Continue reading
The last place.
‘You will find me in the last place.’ Cleopatra is supposed to have remarked to Mark Anthony just before he found her in her pyramid, thoroughly asped. She was not alone and not very original either, although she did have … Continue reading