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Season’s Greetings ❄☃
Hope you are keeping cosy and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday Here is my Season’s Greetings card, an an abstracted view (actually a few viewpoints brought together in one piece) made in the Dundee University Botanical Gardens using pens, ink and pencil on calligraphy board. This artwork, as well
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Renga: place and time entwined
Exhibition organised by Margaret Kerr 5th – 25th November 2023Green Gallery, Dundee University Botanical Gardens About this exhibition This exhibition features work by eight artists who spent an August weekend making art in the Botanics this year. Our work was inspired by the Japanese concept of Renga. Renga is a form of poetry composed by
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Season’s Greetings ❄️
Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ 最近の2021年のアートワークは絵と写真と書道といろいろ。 I’ve been fortunate to practice different styles of Shodo calligraphy, jazzy abstract pieces and mysterious photography in 2021. I’ve been especially busy with community creative groups in Glasgow and online on Zoom. よいお年を、ご自愛下さい。 With palms together
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Season’s Greetings 2017
Have a super duper 2017 and all the very best wishes for a peaceful holiday. Creatively 2016 has been really varied, and has seen work on various visual projects, particularly photography and drawings, both getting more abstract and playful. Recently I have been running free community art classes in Ruchill and Maryhill in Glasgow for
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Body of the Ground – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen No. 91 “Those who fall to the ground get up relying on the ground” Interdependent origination is difficult for us because we have an unexamined idea of time: it is like an arrow, going from past to future, yet past, present and future don’t have equal weight. The past is like an accumulating
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Momentary State – Kusen Collaboration with John Fraser
John’s Kusen Zazen is often called the mountain still state, the balanced state. What we need to understand is that the state is momentary. It is a quality of this moment. Not the person, the moment. This moment rolls in and out of balance. When out of balance, self, world and linear time all arise,
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