tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37501043450398503502024-03-14T09:58:42.966+00:00Louise NormanMy printmaking and illustration work, travels, art to see and things I'm into.Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.comBlogger513125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-68003089276961497952021-01-25T14:50:00.001+00:002021-01-25T14:50:15.491+00:00Travelling around the World through Music<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.putumayo.com/cuba-cuba" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyI845fD5qPhXB8p0k9ibNgfhsKQTMceupKc2K2hcztpBzOknOOkQrqPQJ1DFeFgjLv43wFGqPmOhuB34a3LEH9bgBY0zFOaKcrjUWtILq2GlbRvDGDyTHGxAESyDLxOlj4UifbUZ2fUk/s320/Screen+Shot+2021-01-25+at+14.45.00.png" /></a></div></div><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've been missing travelling and experiencing new places, culture, food, people, customs, languages et al. So have recently come across Putumayo's World Music Radio Hour which showcases music from their many albums around the world into themes around events, such as the recent episode on Martin Luther King Day or a playlist around food for Thanksgiving or geographical regions. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a few of my favourite episodes I've listened to so far:-</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.putumayo.com/radioshow/episode/c213eb09/mountain-music">Mountain Music</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.putumayo.com/radioshow/episode/c485e4bb/acoustic-arabia">Acoustic Arabia</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.putumayo.com/radioshow/episode/c28b4522/celtic-music-around-the-world">Celtic Music Around the World</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.putumayo.com/radioshow/episode/c31f0c72/reggae-around-the-world">Reggae Around the World</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">All the music is featured on their many CD compilations such as Cuba! Cuba!, Arabic Groove, French Cafe, Celtic Women... I remember seeing them in shops before because of their distinctive, beautiful & memorable illustration covers by <a href="http://www.nicolaheindl.com/">Nicola Heindl</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm finding them to be really relaxing & great to cook to! Find the Putumayo Music Radio Hour <a href="https://www.putumayo.com/radioshow">here</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">or different playlists on Spotify searching for '<a href="https://open.spotify.com/search/putumayo%20presents/albums">Putumayo Presents</a>'</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-75098703204133879392020-02-25T10:57:00.001+00:002020-02-25T10:57:02.319+00:00Volcano Patches - Popocatépetl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; text-align: left;">So I've decided to do a design project of volcano patches. Here's the first, one of my favourites- 'Popocatepetl' in Mexico, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #40354e;">located just south of Mexico City, Mexico at 5,426 m, its name means 'Smoking Mountain' in Aztec. It is one of the most active volcanoes in Mexico & is the second-highest in North America. In 1994 it became active again after nearly 50 years of being dormant, and is now regularly active with steam plumes and erratic eruptions.</span></span></div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-12113168445072791932019-12-06T11:30:00.005+00:002019-12-06T11:30:58.968+00:002019 Roundup: Art Exhibitions<div style="text-align: center;">
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When you're living life you don't quite realise all that you are doing or achieving as it's just rolling along as everyday life. So the end of the year is always a good time to reflect and look back on the last 12 months. Here's the first roundup of 2019, a look at all the exhibitions I saw in 2019:-</div>
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<a href="https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/february/harald-sohlberg-painting-norway/">Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway</a> at Dulwich Picture Gallery</div>
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/cc-land-exhibition-pierre-bonnard-colour-memory">Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory</a> at Tate Modern</div>
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Sheffield is my nearest City so I always pop into the Graves Gallery & Millennium Gallery, here's what I saw there this year: </div>
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<a href="https://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/graves-gallery/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/it-moves-forward">It Moves Forward: The Work of Richard Hamilton</a> at Graves Gallery</div>
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<a href="https://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/current/the-time-is-now">The Time is Now</a> at Milllenium Gallery</div>
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<a href="https://www.chatsworth.org/events/the-dog/">The Dog: A Celebration</a> at Chatsworth</div>
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I also go to Manchester quite a lot so here's what I saw at the Manchester Art Gallery this year (from top anticlockwise):</div>
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I also managed a trip to London in November & managed to see the Rembrandt's Light exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Luckily I saw it just a few days before they had an <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50421889">attempted robbery</a> and subsequent closure of the gallery for 2 weeks. I also always see one of my favourite Rembrandt portraits 'Jacob de Gheyn III' which they have in their permanent collection when I'm there, but I couldn't find it & found out it's currently on loan to Museum de Lakenhal in the Netherlands for their exhibition <a href="https://www.lakenhal.nl/en/story/exhibition-young-rembrandt">'Young Rembrandt: Rising Star'</a> (curiously this painting has been stolen 4 times making it one of the most stolen paintings in the world!)</div>
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I feel like I haven't seen as much as I'd like to this year, so hopefully next year I can make the effort and go to see more special exhibitions as well as some new places I've never been to. Thanks 2019, roll on 2020!</div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-72292402024165558332019-05-31T17:09:00.000+01:002019-05-31T17:16:37.445+01:00Rosetta Philae for C.A.N NeckTie<a href="https://creativeaction.network/products/outer-space-neck-tie"><img height="320" src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/4781/products/outer-space-neck-tie-3-5x56-inch-neck-tie-space-horizons-7517958439015_2048x.jpg?v=1559241270" width="320" /></a> <a href="https://creativeaction.network/products/rosetta-philae-by-louise-norman"><img height="320" src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0499/4781/products/rosetta-philae-by-louise-norman-12-by-12-print-unframed-print-space-horizons-26239973326_2048x.jpg?v=1549921132" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I designed this <a href="https://creativeaction.network/products/rosetta-philae-by-louise-norman">Rosetta-Philae Patch</a> for the Space Horizons <a href="https://creativeaction.network/">Creative Action Network</a> project a few years ago & they've just picked it to be on this really cool <a href="https://creativeaction.network/products/outer-space-neck-tie">Outer Space Necktie</a> now available in their shop! Proceeds support <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SpaceHorizons/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank">Space Horizons</a><span style="background-color: white;">, an innovative non profit that promotes interest in STEM education for minority and female students in underserved communities. </span></span><br />
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I've started a new weekly project for 2018 called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/literarylinocut/">#literarylinocut</a> where each week I'll make a small, quick linocut detailing anything literary from current reads to author portraits, made up book covers, book stacks and quotes. Here's the first 5 weeks worth featuring my current read 'The Black Cloud' by Fred Hoyle, the great, late Ursula le Guin, recent read 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins, a favourite author in Patricia Highsmith & a great read remembered in 'The River Ki' by Sawako Ariyoshi.</div>
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To keep up to date with the project, follow me over on my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/louisenormanstudio/">Instagram</a> where I'll upload a new linocut every Wednesday!</div>
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I am an avid reader and my TBR list is ever-long and ever-growing so while a book buying ban is necessary, I can't tear myself away from collecting those published by <a href="https://www.peirenepress.com/">Peirene Press</a> who publish beautifully designed short books in English translation from Europe. Last year my favourite read of the entire year was 'The Orange Grove' by Larry Tremblay which they published and I reviewed <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/review-orange-grove-by-larry-tremblay.html">here</a>.<br />
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This year the series of 3 short books to be published is called 'Home in Exile' and I was really excited to be sent 'Soviet Milk' by Nora Ikstena to review, the first Latvian author I've ever read and it is translated into English by Margita Gailitis.<br />
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The book alternates between a mother and daughter's point of view from growing up and living in Riga and the Latvian countryside under Soviet rule. Everything is shown to have two sides and each needs the other to exist; Life and Death, Mothers and Daughters, God and Science, Freedom and Imprisonment. There is even another side to the life-giving milk a mother should give to her baby, as she feels it has been poisoned by her (and Soviet rule) she deprives her daughter of it.<br />
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Latvia's imprisonment and silencing under the Soviet Union is paralleled in the banishment of the Mother to the countryside. She begins to withdraw from reality seeking solace in cigarettes, books and pills and the daughter is then also imprisoned by always being tied to her mother, at first having to grow up with her in the countryside and then when she is older having to return to visit her and trying to pull her back into reality.<br />
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Soviet Milk makes us examine how we are all living in multiple cages, from the emotional ones we create for ourselves to those imposed upon us through family, work, society, the government or country ruling over us. While these cages and boundaries may appear to help us to exist and survive as a society, individual freedom is still always hoped for and appears in-between the cracks; through a rebellious teacher, a midnight swim or a friends help, even a hamster seeks it and finally there is no escaping death which will release us all into an infinite freedom.<br />
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Despite the dark themes and unanswerable existential questions Soviet Milk throws up, I felt there was always an underlying sense of hope, while darkness will always be inevitable in life so will hope and light. Freedom will always be present on the horizon, in milk or in the earth.<br />
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I love Scotland, from the Highlands to the Cities, the Islands to the Irn Bru (okay maybe not so much) from Flora McDonald to Robert Burns. So I seem to have started a yearly tradition to complete a Robert Burns Illustration for every Burns Night! So here's this years; a linocut with a little portrait of the great man himself on a rose complete with the opening lines of 'O My Luve is Like a Red Red Rose' I wanted to do some green rose leaves & thorns as well, but I ran out of time so I will have to finish it another time. </div>
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Here's my Robert Burns Illustrations from <a href="https://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/happy-burns-night-linocut.html">2017</a>, <a href="https://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/happy-burns-night.html">2016</a> , <a href="https://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/friday-illustration-burns-night-2015.html">2015</a> and <a href="https://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/happy-burns-night.html">2014</a></div>
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<br />Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-34953380841415963472017-10-30T10:58:00.005+00:002018-02-03T21:14:19.206+00:00Chaiyya Chaiyya Linocut & Bollywood Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've recently got into watching some Bollywood films (due to finding a favourite 'Kal Ho Na Ho' I saw years ago on Netflix) so of course I've become a huge Shah Rukh Khan fan! Every new film throws up some amazing songs like the incredible 'Chaiyya Chaiyya' from the great film 'Dil Se' which was all filmed on top of the Ooty train going through the jungles and tunnels its so incredible, watch it here! So I had to create a multi-colour linocut print of it.</div>
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Here's some of my favourite SRK films so far:- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kal Ho Na Ho, Devdas, Kabhi Kushie Kabhie Gham, Dil Se, Veer Zaara and of course Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge! </div>
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and then some other favourite Bollywood songs on repeat:- Indiawaale, Janam Janam, Tujhe Dekha To, Ina Mina Dika, O Jaan-E-Man</div>
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<br />Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-38969310811567318922017-05-12T10:22:00.003+01:002017-05-12T10:22:47.109+01:00Review: The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ever since I first saw a few of these novellas by <a href="https://www.peirenepress.com/">Periene Press</a> in a bookshop I was drawn under their spell; their beautiful design from the minimalist connecting covers to the inside flaps, paper texture, and the publishers note on why they chose to publish it, everything is so well considered and that's before we get to the fiction contained inside. After loving the first two I read (The Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman & The Looking-Glass Sisters) I decided to collect them and now I've have been sent a copy of their newest <a href="http://www.peirenepress.com/books/east_and_west/peirene_no_23">'The Orange Grove'</a> to review. I love reading but have never attempted to write a review before, so here goes...</div>
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The story is set in an unknown country which could be nowhere and everywhere in a time that has experienced a war; it could even be all a dream, as you often hope reality is. But Aziz & Ahmed always come back to the Orange Grove; the gathering of fruit in the harvest, the flowers, the canopy's shade, the dirt and rocks the oranges grow out of. These sights and smells of the Orange Grove ground you to a simple domestic oasis of home, nature, the earth, where you came from, your country, your father and mother.</div>
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Aziz & Ahmed are twin brothers who live by the Orange Grove next to where their grandparents were recently killed by a bomb which came from the other side of the mountain. The local militants decide that revenge & honour must be sought by their father who has to choose one of his sons to sacrifice.</div>
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The bones of the story is given up in the blurb, when you know that one of the brothers has to be sacrificed by wearing a suicide belt and the implications this has on the brother that survives. As you await the inevitable fate of one of the brothers the story unfolds through a quiet, beautiful, poetic tale of truth, lies, duty, brainwashing, honour/dishonour and a mother's undying love for her sons. </div>
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The Orange Grove forces you to view war from this small family perspective, they could easily be you, having to live your life, raise your children through bombs, suicide vests, militants and having to keep your family's honour intact so the future is still bearable. This family living through the horrors of war teaches you about tolerance, compassion, love and circumstances. </div>
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The Orange Grove left me at a stalement, as life and war often does, with no peace in sight, only questions. How does the future recover from the scars of war, how is one person's life worth more than another, why are innocent children always involved? War has always been a part of history and sadly I feel it always will be, but those losses and lives buried under miles of earth sometimes can grow into oranges. </div>
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A heartbreakingly beautiful read that will be with me a long time, teaching me more about tolerance, compassion and love, I highly recommend it.</div>
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Thanks to <a href="https://www.peirenepress.com/">Periene Press</a> and go check out all their books!</div>
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I listened to the <a href="https://stownpodcast.org/">S-town podcast</a> in the first couple of days after it was released & loved it, it's not really a crime story, it's really just an exploration of a fascinatingly unique man, John B McLemore.</div>
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In homage to him & the podcast I created a little linocut of a sundial with a sad motto, 'Omnes Vulnerant, Ultima Necat' or for all those non-latin speakers out there 'All Hours Wound; the last one kills' (That motto just kills me!)</div>
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I've just recently been drawn into the world of musicals & who best to introduce me to them than Judy Garland, here classic Meet Me In St Louis, with the most amazing Trolley Song (shot on the first take), The Wizard of Oz & Easter Parade, I look forward to watching others too.</div>
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So to celebrate her in all her fabulousness I created a linocut print which features a beautiful quote of hers: 'Always be a first rate version of yourself, instead of a second rate version of somebody else' It's now for sale in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/516050471/judy-garland-linocut-print-over-the?ref=shop_home_active_1">etsy shop</a> </div>
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Here's the print framed in gold on an old illustrated copy of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by Frank L. Baum.</div>
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& for all the Judy Lovers out there here's a little spotify playlist of all my favourite Judy at the moment:<br />
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Happy Burns Night! Hope you're having fun reciting the 'Tam O'Shanter' & piping in the Haggis! To celebrate I created a linocut print in honour of Robert Burns detailing some of his famous works. I love my little tartan book of his poems & songs which is just right to dip into when I want to conjure the wild, free Highlands of Scotland & a Scottish accent! The A4 print is available to buy in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/507485457/robert-burns-linocut-print">shop</a>.</div>
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The print details aspects of his well known works including; roses for 'My Love is like a Red Red Rose', A haggis, mouse & a louse for his Addresses' to each of them, the Scottish Highlands for his 'My Heart's in the Highland's' & 'Wild Mountainside' also put in the NYE classic 'Auld Lang Syne' & the beautiful 'Ae Fond Kiss'.</div>
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Here's the linocut block, I can now write in joined up writing backwards! </div>
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It's also available on <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/louweasely/works/25001945-robert-burns-linocut?asc=u">Redbubble</a> on T-shirts, cards, homewares etc, I love the <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/louweasely/works/25001945-robert-burns-linocut?asc=u&p=tote-bag&rel=carousel">tote bag</a>!</div>
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Also why not have a look at my Burns Night Illustrations from <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/happy-burns-night.html">2016</a>, <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/friday-illustration-burns-night-2015.html">2015</a> & <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/happy-burns-night.html">2014</a>!</div>
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May-August is definitely the height of the tennis season with Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Davis Cup & this year the Olympics. So this month's print highlights my favourite tournament, Wimbledon! I can't go & queue up this year so I'll just have to watch loads on TV with Pimm's & strawberries on hand!<br />
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I'm still only listening to Prince, with his huge back catalogue there's so much variety of greatness, he truly is a once in the whole lifetime of this planet, truly unique artist and creative force. My favourite tracks change on a daily basis, here's a few of my lesser known favourites in this moment: She Gave Her Angels, The Truth, Race, Mountains, Head, Dolphin, Crucial, The Ladder, God, Bambi, The Holy River, Black Sweat and the Cream -acoustic live on VH1 unplugged shows off his abundance of sweet playful charm perfectly.</div>
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I'm a bit late with this months calendar print but here's some funky Maypole dancing for May.</div>
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{Also see <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/new-year-new-project.html">January</a>, <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/year-of-printmaking-february-chinese.html">February</a>, <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/year-of-printmaking-march-daffodils.html">March</a> and <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/year-of-printmaking-april-rabbits.html">April</a>}</div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-72875527587654329292016-05-17T08:30:00.000+01:002016-05-17T08:30:20.609+01:00Women Artists to See in the UK<div style="text-align: center;">
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There's always lots of art to see, but lately I've added lots of women artists to my wishlist to see! So I thought I'd highlight these women; some well known and thought about for years, others unknown and waiting to be discovered.</div>
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--Free, abstract, colourful, automatic, spirit watercolours by this Spiritualist Medium painting in the mid-late 19th Century.</div>
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I've been working on some sketches & paintings of windows lately looking at the division between outside/inside, secure/insecure, private/exposed. . . So for this weeks print here is a linocut sketch of my window/curtain to the outside world in that moment. </div>
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I'm still feeling purple after last weeks news of the death of Prince & I've been in a purple fog of his music, tributes, videos & films. I've been listening to this great list of tributes, radio shows & videos done by the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03rv4s5">BBC</a> & <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/prince">Rolling Stone</a> has some other great ones.<br />
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So this week I only had time for a quick purple rain linocut print. Stay Purple & Yourself.<br />
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Wearing purple & listening to prince on repeat while printing this mini portrait of Prince today. Thanks for all the funky music, fashion, soul, individuality, creativity, sexiness, weirdness & you being you. </div>
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I love how linocuts can be so quick to do and look really effective, like this little lemon for this weeks print. What's the perfect accompaniment to a lemon? Gin & Tonic! </div>
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Lots of stuffed animals & birds, while a fascinating collection there's a beautiful melancholy sadness to them as you can see their beauty but now they're long dead and will forever be in a cage being stared at....</div>
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The day after I went to the Natural History Museum, (obligatory photo of Dippy the Diplodocus and you can see the white statue of Charles Darwin in the background) we were there to see 'The Wildlife Photographer of the Year.</div>
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Then we headed to the National Portrait Gallery mainly to see the mini '<a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2016/celebrating-charlotte-bronte-1816-1855.php">Celebrating Charlotte Bronte: 1816-1855'</a> exhibition where they had her really small boots, mini books for Branwells toy soldiers, watercolours & some of her letters on display. Also I saw this great portrait of Christabel Pankhurst, the daughter of Emmeline. Then we walked down towards the Houses of Parliament passing this Women of World War II memorial near the Cenotaph & downing street. I love how it shows the 'workwear' of women and how women's roles during the War were extremely diverse- from being land girls, police, nurses and welders, to making ammunition, it was the start of Women's Liberation from home into the World of Work & Independence.</div>
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Passed by Richard I, the lionheart who reigned from 1189-99!...</div>
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and found Emmeline Pankhurst to Thank her & everyone else who stood & still stand up for Women's rights today, Votes for Women!</div>
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Thanks London I always love visiting you to see amazing & wonderful history, sights & sounds, I'll be back soon...</div>
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Louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07168517260578118182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3750104345039850350.post-17518932930741581962016-04-08T17:48:00.001+01:002016-05-08T17:45:04.270+01:00Year of Printmaking: Abstract window monoprint<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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When I don't have much time a monoprint is so fun and quick! Here's an abstract window for this weeks print in my <a href="http://louisenorman.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/printmaking">year of printmaking</a> project.</div>
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