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Home
This is a long one. You’d better grab a cuppa. Recently someone I know wrote an online article about home, and it got me thinking. The topic of ‘home’ is one I have gnawed and gnawed at over the years. … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged beating the bounds, belonging, blackberries, community, connections, country lanes, devon, ecology, gardening, gardens, geography, going home, growing home, hiraeth, home, landscape, local history, natural history, norfolk, Oliver Balch, paddling, people, place, primroses, putting down roots, rejection, rituals, rope swimgs, routines, sea, seasonal living, simplicity, sky, towpaths, Under the Tump, walking diary
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An eventful weekend
Did you survive the snow? Apart from the odd mound left from road clearing, ours has all gone. After living in Scotland I find snow so evocative, especially being in a rural community. As many of you will know, country … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged agapanthus, albrighton rambler, biology, bird feeder, blue tit, campanula, children, chives, drawing, ecology, education, family, garden, goldfinch, Hannah Foley, hebe, illustration, illustrator, kids, natural history, nature, primroses, robin, sketching, sparrow, wildlife, wren
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‘What-if’ stuff
I went to sleep last night surrounded by precariously balanced piles of our belongings. I seemed to get the camping equipment and home brew kit on my side, while Big Dreamer contended with tins of paint and Christmas decorations. We … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged biology, blood vessels, centre of the cell, children, education, Hannah Foley, heart, illustration, illustrator, non-fiction
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Happy New Year!
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged 2018, Hannah Foley, happy new year, illustration, illustrator
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Loving Vincent
One more quick one before I go away…my friend and I saw the premier of Loving Vincent on Monday. It was played live from the National Gallery to selected cinemas around the country and it came to Exeter. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged animation, art, films, illustration, Loving Vincent, oils, painting, Vincent can Gogh
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Sailing and sowing
The summer holidays are drawing to a close. School re-starts on Tuesday. The fantastic weather over the bank holiday was a great way to end and was worth all the previous weeks of dreariness. We finally launched a little sailing … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged allotment patch, back to school, boat, front door, kindness, renovation, sailing, sea, summer holidays, water, waves, yellow
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Postscript
As a postscript to my last post, I was recently reading about the cities of the world with the most trees. There’s a very cool-looking website put together by MIT called Treepedia where they are charting the green canopy of … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged Access to Nature, green canopy, green spaces, MIT, Treepedia, Vancouver
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Rogationtide
A blog I love to read is called Dove Grey Reader Scribbles, written by a community nurse living in the Tamar valley. It’s mostly about books but she also sometimes writes about the countryside around her. A while ago she … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged animals, bear, beating the bounds, Brunel, carnivores, children, church, common seal, community nurse, devon, Dover Grey Reader Scribbles, education, evolution, fields, gardens, Hannah Foley, horse, horticulture, illustration, illustrator, kids, lion, natural history, odd-toed ungulates, orchards, plymouth, railway, rhino, rhinoceros, rogationtide, steve roud, Tamar valley, the english year, tithe maps, tithes, wolf
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Transforming Conflict
Here’s a piece of work I did back in February for the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) for their annual conference called Transforming Conflict. This illustration was massively inspired by a wonderful piece of film created by Felipe Bustos … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged allotment, children, Debasers Filums, digging, families, Felipe Bustos Sierra, gardening, grasses, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, nurturing, parents, spade, teenagers, wellies
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Storage…again!
I have been making draw string bags for the kids to hang on their coat pegs in the hall and store their seasonal gear in. I’m so tired of bundles of scarves, hats and gloves being wedged on top of … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged antechamber, benches, bike, buggy, children, cleaning, clown, cubby holes, entrances, family, genkan, hoovering, house entrance, houses, illustration, Janome, japan, japanese, Keep the Heid, Lakeland, mud, parenting, pigeon holes, porch, radiators, repairs, SCCR, scooter, seasonal kit, sewing machine, storage, wellies
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