Author: RJ

Inspiring words from theorist, artist, poet and author Ruskin, who once said “…give me some mud off a city crossing,…ochre out of a gravel pit..a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust…” This is a journal about grass roots in inspiration, the act of making things and the heritage behind experience. It is about contibutions from the worlds of art, textiles, architecture, design, fashion, literature that surround us.

The author of this blog is an artist in the fields of textiles. Her background and work encompass drawing, painting, print-making, fashion, interiors and illustration.Blog on art, design, architecture, textiles, fashion.

02 Apr

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Butterfly Orchid: NY Botanical Gardens

Another gem from the Orchid Show, New York Botanical Gardens. This is a Butterfly Orchid; Psychopsis Kalihi, native to Trinidad, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. 

 
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29 Mar

Living Jade; the pea family visits the Orchid Show

Living Jade; the pea family visits the Orchid Show

It is certainly not everyday that one sees a flower with petals in such a hue. The stems are equally enchanting in a vibrant spectrum of purple, lilac, lavender and blue all melting into each other.

 
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25 Mar

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

compelled to make marks: a classical perspective

I’ve been thinking on the question of what compels me to draw. This has led to questioning what has moved other artists to pick up …

 
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21 Mar

Faces of the wild : Robert E Fuller

Faces of the wild : Robert E Fuller

There is something truly engaging in the visual rendering, or articulation, of living things by a human hand.

 
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20 Mar

Alisa Andrasek: Biothing; the curve and the built

Alisa Andrasek: Biothing; the curve and the built

Andrasek’s practice works under the studio title ‘Biothing’ in which embodied feelings are entwined with abstract relationships. The creation of ideas for Biothing are based on this relationship and harnessed by the use of digitally generated diagrams.

 
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18 Mar

Christian Fletcher: the Australian Landscape

Christian Fletcher: the Australian Landscape

Christian Fletcher’s photograph has been on my wall for some days now, exhibited in the 2009 Australian Professional Photography Awards and recipient of the gold …

 
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16 Mar

Scarpelli Mosaici

Scarpelli Mosaici

Boxes of stones lie awaiting placement, sometimes sitting for years on the workshop walls until such time as they will be called upon to provide the right shade of shadow on a lemon, or the right tone of pink on a cheek.

 
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12 Mar

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Jacob Hashimoto: Armory Show 2010

Constructed with techniques used for handcrafting kites, they are made from bamboo, natural-tone rice and silk papers. These are dipped in acrylic polymer and then strung together.

 
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08 Mar

Daniel Arsham: Animal Architecture, Armory Show 2010

Daniel Arsham: Animal Architecture, Armory Show 2010

In the world at present ‘a sense of truth and the real’ seems to be more the reality than reality itself. The real world is …

 
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24 Feb

Hotel de Ville égalité

Hotel de Ville égalité

The carousel was covered in shambly rope netting. There were sections of scaffolding piled around. There were children learning to ice-skate.

 
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