Hats and Holidays

After a busy week so far, there are now more things on the website. Please feel free to have a gander! My new camera has been a godsend for sharp photos - shame the light isn't quite so good now that summer has definitely left us. But on the good side, all the beaches in Cornwall are now relately empty which means I can wander about with my camera snapping away, testing all the buttons.

This is Crantock beach, near Newquay - the tide is way out and has left lots of rippling sand patterns to photograph.

I did try out the new macro lens on my camera and got some good close-ups of the madly coloured seaweed/moss washed onto the beach.

I thought these offered interesting colour combinations, possibly for dip dyeing yarns or fabric for new projects. The colours are subtle but still manage to retain a bright pink element - I like that. Nature is very clever in her colour choices - can't beat it!

Of course, we couldn't go to the beach without some drawing on the best free canvas!

A photo heavy post today - back soon hopefully with more progress and some images from the Angie Lewin exhibition I visited today.

Caio for now,
elaine

Dreamscapes

Celtic dreamscapes, ruins, past merging with the present, not quite reality. If you walked through the arch, what would you discover and where or 'when' would you be? Would you walk into a distant, mysterious past full of unknown places and cultures? Would you be as real as the people around you or are you a ghost, unable to interact and only observe? Would this be a logical world or be more transient and fragmented, illogical - like dreams......
What kind of characters would you meet and what kind of conversations would you have? Is this a place of magic and power, where impossible dreams are possible?

If your subconscious chose to portray you as your true self, who are you? 10 years younger? Are you wearing your favourite clothes? But maybe you are now a different you, that you feel you are inside - in dreams - the person that doesn't function or fit quite so well in the harsh reality of the 'real' world.

What is real? the 9-5 job or the true inner self?

'every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it' - Henry Miller

The beginnings of a series of layered images evoking thoughts, feelings, past, places to escape- dreamscapes. More to come - dream on..............