Wasp Nest!

This beauty was in my garden last summer.
It was a real work of art, and looked like a delicate chinese lantern.
My plan was to wait until the wasps had vacated it and cut it down, clean it out and keep it.
Just before I had the chance to do this there was a terrific down pour of rain and it totaly ruined the nest.

Well it was beautiful while it lasted!

Art Dolls

Wedding Cake

This is one of my efforts at ceramics a few years ago.
The lower layer is a dungeon kitted out with a rack, chains and other items of torture/pleasure.

Oh dear.......what does that say about me???

Bryan Talbot

Wet Sundays, we have so many and they make spring feel more like winter.

During the Easter bankholiday we went to Abbotsbury, West Dorset.
It has a lovely shingle beach and on a hill high above the village is St. Catherines Chapel.
It was built, like many other Christian churches, on top of the original Pagan Temple.
The early Christian missionaries would naturally try to choose a patron saint that continued, as closely as possible, the pagan dedication of the temple.
The closest Goddess to St. Catherine would have been 'goddess of the silver wheel', Arianrhod.

There is nothing inside, no pews, alter etc. just a dirt floor but it has a very distinct atmosphere.
They still hold services there but I guess the people just stand on the dirt floor.
Here are a few pics I took with my cell phone, so not brilliant.
Several people had left little offerings, flowers, poems and lit candles in the niches in the wall.
Below someone had left a little Icon of St. Catherine.

Snakeshead Fritillery
(hope i've spelt that right!)
These are the ones that Charles Rennie Mackintosh like to paint but they are usually checkered light and dark mauve, can you get a white variety?
Anyway they are in my garden and they look great.

I wrote this poem a few years ago when I had a troubled mind.

I thought of the messages that people put in bottles and cast into the sea, I wanted to offer up my troubles to the deep and see if they would wash up on some other shore, transformed by the power of the waves, perhaps into things more positive?

I wonder how many "troubles" lay on the sea bed, slumbering?

I love the sea.

See more here: ICON

The Sentiments Series

This are the new aceo's I have on offer on ebay, they are very richly embriodered and beaded and fantastic to touch!
They are too thick to fit into a standard trading card sleeve though, not that you'd want to put them in plastic.
Bid here:

Fabric ACEO's

This is how the backs look.
Quotations printed on linen.