On Sunday, I visited an exhibition by the Oxford Ikebana Study Group (I don't belong to this but do like flowers!) and thought that people might be interested to see some examples of the varied displays on offer.  There was a haiku theme - each display had a card with a printed haiku which had been used to suggest the shape, colour and texture of ( Read more... )

For the talented and hard-working ditch_gospel on her birthday, 20th May - hope you enjoy a great day!


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Greetings to everyone celebrating Easter!  I wish you a happy holiday.  I took this photo in Italy (the museum of Santa Croce in Florence last year) - please click on the image to see the full size of the painting though (you may need to click on the image again once the new window opens because the original photo is big):


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For Christians, today (Good Friday) is a solemn day and a time for reflection and for embracing our own humbleness when set against the scale of grand designs.

These Good Friday feelings have been expressed in art for many centuries, on both a personal and a public level.  Here is a picture of a piece of Good Friday art, which I took earlier this ( Read more... )