透 – tō – to be transparent, leave gap, hold light 明 – mei – bright/ illumination観 – kan observation meditation; perceive transparent and moving, perceiving interpenetrating and making space, like …
Category archives: Art activities
Breathing spaces and balance – Japanese & Chinese seal engraving
It was great to have the time to work on 篆刻 tenkoku seal engraving for hansetsu sized calligraphy paper. These hakubun and shubun white and red letter 印 stamps have …
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Twisting branches, fading spaces – sumi-e ink painting
I worked outside in the North of Glasgow with my friend artist Margaret Kerr, painting in my large sketchbook a 水墨画 suibokuga ink painting (style is also called sumi-e) of …
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Carving seals and stamping onto calligraphy and artwork
Here is an example of stamped calligraphy (this is kokotsubun shell and bone style). You can stamp on your shodo calligraphy, artwork, poetry or sutra copying, or anything else you …
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Vista painting and punky rocks at Traprain Law
It was peaceful working with artist Margaret Kerr (please have a look at her beautiful and mesmerizing work: @megkerr245 on Instagram) in East Lothian – Margaret kindly invited me over …
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In reisho calligraphy – the movement and light of the seasons
I worked from Suenaga 末永 Sensei’s reisho 隷書 style of a peaceful and joyful poem by 6th C Chinese poet 陸瓊 (りく けい)Rikukei: 春風秋月恒好 spring wind autumn moon always pleasing …
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2020
Portrait of Tokyo Ren Master
Many visitors to the friendly Ren Bar in east Tokyo made calligraphy and artworks to express their wishes for the new year… here is my fast ink portrait of the …
moon cloud – secluded within snow
moon cloud softly emergingbreathing plumes of blue snow dustswirling aroundour scratched out rooftop
Discovered in my sketchbook poetry notes
fragile manoeuvring through pale ochre land gaping dark blue fissure within the sky a light hole self transparent roaming path hill spontaneously becoming deer hare blown by atlantic gusts everything …