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Plaits, Poppies and The Summer Exhibition

I love being able to plait hair again! When LiveWire T’s Mum was little she used to insist on an odd number of plaits and each one had to have a different coloured ribbon – sometimes seven plaits and all the colours of the rainbow.

On the way to school this morning we spotted pansies in a front garden.Today’s feast of art was at The Royal Academy for The Summer Exhibition. Here are some of our favourites.

By Bob and Roberta Smith

Poupee Bleue by Abdoulaye Konate

Untitled Throne, decommissioned arms by Gonçalo Mabunda

Bob and Roberta Smith

Alter Ego – two silver plated objects, one flattened by a 250 ton press, hanging on threads. Cornelia ParkerDetail from Swell by Sara Dodd. So delicate and made of porcelain, looking like sheets of filo pastry.

This was our absolute favourite, bronze and aluminium, called Silent Journey by Ann Christopher.

I could keep posting for ever tonight!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 20, 2017 in art, Beauty, ceramics, flowers, Grandchildren, painting, Photography, postaday2017, sculpture, Uncategorized

Tags: Bob and Roberta Smith, Cornelia Parker, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sara Dodd

Tintagel, Steps and Sculpture

11 Jun

We had read about the sculpture on the cliffs at Tintagel so set off today. We had not bargained on the number of steps up but it was worth it to get the amazing views and the beautiful sculpture by Rubin Eynon. Join us on our steep and windy walk. Click on any photo in the gallery for a bigger view.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 11, 2017 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, Photography, sculpture

Tags: Rubin Eynon, Tintagel

Meeting Welly-Dog, In the Bath and Preview

26 May

We have had another fleeting and very lovely visit from Daughter No 3 and family en route back from the Scilly isles where they had a brilliant holiday. LiveWire no 4 loves our garden, can name lots of flowers including Three Cornered Leek and enjoyed chatting to Welly-Dog.

Later, after they had gone, I discovered some of the bath toys abandoned after her bath this morning.

This evening we went to the Preview of an Open Studio show by our lovely friend, Nicky. Beautiful work and lots of red spots already!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 26, 2017 in art, Beauty, ceramics, garden, Grandchildren, Happiness, Photography, sculpture

Tags: David Kemp, Tinners' Hound

St Ives, Tremenheere Gardens and St Euny

28 Apr

What a delightful day out this as been with our friend whom we have not seen for about 30 years! It is so lovely how the years just drop away as if they have not been! Please enjoy our gallery of our trip to St Ives and then our visit to Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens. Please click on any photo for detail and the caption.

Steps in St Ives

Knitted cakes

Open reach cables

St Michael’s Mount

Fiddlehead Fern

James Turrell’s Sky Space

Bluebells

Kinetic sculptures

More Kinetic sculptures

The Minotaur

Love

Tree sculpture

Slate sculpture

The Mount through a sculpture

St Euny

I came home to find that Anna Oliver of Fresca Marketing in Redruth had sent me the programme that she is designing for Until the Day Break and it is fabulous! I can’t show you yet but I will show you as the show starts on 18th May.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 28, 2017 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, knitting, nature, Photography, postaday2017, sculpture, St Ives

Tags: fresca marketing, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens

3DM, A Present and St Ives

22 Apr

A little packet arrived when I was out yesterday and, somehow, by the time I had finished my meeting last night, it was overlooked. Today, what delight! I opened it up and there is the new cd by Three Daft Monkeys and we love it already!

We love the short train ride from Lelant Saltings to St Ives and that was our trip today. We love the art galleries and today, in the Porthminster Gallery, fell in love with a very special piece by Margaret Lovell. We left the gallery and then, at the same moment, turned to each other to say, “We could buy it together for our Golden Wedding present!” And so we did! We have bought it through Own Art, a brilliant scheme where you pay off the cost over ten months with no interest. I’m not sure we can wait until August to unwrap it but as soon as we do I will show you our very beautiful piece of sculpture.

Enjoy our gallery of our afternoon in St Ives. Click on any photo for a better view.

From the train, going towards St Ives

St Ives as we were walking from the station

From Tate St Ives

View from inside a shop

From the train, coming home

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 22, 2017 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, Photography, postaday2017, sculpture, Sea, St Ives

Tags: Margaret Lovell, Porthminster gallery

Back Garden, Three Wise Monkeys and A Poem

26 Feb

This is our back garden in the rain when the hoolies have been blowing things around.

Our Theee Wise Monkeys planter/sculpture is blooming beautiful! Made just for me by local artist, Jeremy Beswick.

I found this poem in a front garden along the coastal path last week and loved it. The view from the house was spectacular.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 26, 2017 in Beauty, garden, nature, Photography, poetry, postaday2017, sculpture

Tags: Jeremy Beswick

Bunk Bedding, A Sculpture and A Poem

10 Feb

I love getting the beds ready for LiveWire visits! As I write they are on the train and will be here soon and the bunk beds are ready with their favourite bedding.

Our neighbours are sculptors and quite often build something in the garden before it goes off to its new home. Here are the legs of the next big thing! Check out their website http://www.peteandsuehill.co.uk/ to find out who these enormous legs are going to belong to!

Today’s poem is by Fleur Adcock and is in Poem for the Day Two for February 10th. I love the lines “your gentleness is moulded still by words/from me” What a responsibility we have to the world to teach our children to be kind and gentle.

For a Five-Year-Old

by Fleur Adcock

A snail is climbing up the window-sill
into your room, after a night of rain.
You call me in to see and I explain
that it would be unkind to leave it there:
it might crawl to the floor; we must take care
that no one squashes it. You understand,
and carry it outside, with careful hand,
to eat a daffodil.

I see, then, that a kind of faith prevails:
your gentleness is moulded still by words
from me, who have trapped mice and shot wild birds,
from me, who drowned your kittens, who betrayed
your closest relatives and who purveyed
the harshest kind of truth to many another,
But that is how things are: I am your mother,
And we are kind to snails.