open studio starts tomorrow
I’m waiting for the evening to set up my signs – I have a mallet, but the ground is a bit hard, I just tried one ..
this morning’s early walk brought one of the most magical things that’s ever happened to me – two hares on the lane above Bullfer Grove ran towards me instead of away.
I think they were intrigued by the beep of the video button on my iphone, and my leaf contact print dress blended in in the dappled shade of the hedge – their sight is not thought to be very good. so here is my Hare poem (in the Rialto) come to life!
they hovered and looked and sniffed and dithered for about five minutes,
in the end deciding to bound away back to the field.
earlier this week I walked down Cakes lane – got soaking wet feet and trouser legs, the rain has made the grass, cow parsley, docks, hogweed and the odd nettle, shoot up.
everything in full leaf, even the ash trees have decided it’s worth the risk.
Bullfer Grove is a better bet for dry feet on an early walk
I recorded a thrush singing in Cakes yesterday morning
it sounds quite nightingale-like at times
the hedgerows are as pretty as gardens.
I’m filling mine up with pots for Open Studios.
which has liberated the shed, I even cleaned out all the spiders and dead flies –
the shelves are still full
it’s so sad that some pots have been hanging about in there for ten years
so I am open to offers
and I think they look much better out in the garden than crowded on the floor of the shed.
two for tea
and tea for two
some wood-fired
some last year’s experiments
some just old friends.
some that have very definitely been overlooked, up on a high shelf. they need to be on their own.
the office has been de-officed and cleaned up, and will be my painting studio after this.
these are all from the last seven or eight months
the abstracts!
the evolution of the landscapes
from winter
and autumn to spring.
I do hope I see a few people! then tomorrow afternoon Bimba is arriving. she will deserve a whole blog to herself
for the time being, this was taken in Spain. a slight lens distortion making her nose even longer than it really is.
It’s just been pointed out to me that I haven’t given the address of this event (which is on for 3 consecutive weekends by the way including this bank holiday Monday). I’m in the Norwich and Norfolk Open Studios catalogue, number 103. I am at The Granary, Sharrington Road, Bale, Norfolk, NR21 0QY
for hare afficionados, here is Cowper’s account of his tame hares – link