Gather in some home grown produce — Read on http://www.bonnemaman.co.uk/be-inspired/preserving-your-harvest Honestly I think I have a guardian angle. I chose my children’s favoured brand of Jam to form my Triptych of Elevated Artefacts– Bonne Maman. I chose the flavour my eldest auntie made every year in autumn. Guess what they refer to Keats in their…

Lucie Rie: A Secret Life of Buttons • V&A Blog — Read on http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/news/lucie-rie-a-secret-life-of-buttons I wrote about a button for our memory piece in the writing workshop. Remembered object Button. It had an anchor on it. It had lines, scribed horizontally across the french brass surface, blackened for effect. The button was attached to black…

Two painters that Isabel mentioned in my final tutorial. I am familiar and fond of them. I made copies, with permission of course while studying for my Diploma in Portraiture. These paintings are important to me as they both show daily life, which is what I wanted to paint, although possibly only moments. All these…

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn Wonder what Keats would have said to a Korean Moon Jar? By JOHN KEATS Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In…