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IRAQ AND IRAN Our Gallery displays paintings and photos suggested from our Story contributors:- IRAQ - Ban Hikmat, Retired Community Dentist IRAN - Ziba Zarei, Post Mistress, local community shop IRAQ - Zainab Khan, Events Coordinator, RISC Development Education Centre, Reading Together with a selection of images of wonderful Iranian and Iraqi architecture and art. Other interesting links :- Jiddoo Mohammad Salih Zaki - Zainab Hikmat, Exhibition in Melbourne, Australia November 2018 - HERE British Museum Blog 'Sparking the imagination: the rediscovery of Assyria's great lost city' - HERE Modern and Contemporary Iraqi and Iranian Artists - more information on artists displayed in the Gallery - HERE May 2019
OUR GALLERY PRESENTS INSPIRING WORDS AND IMAGES CALL TO THE WILD: Images that inspire Kesty Paintings and photos which inspire Kesty and shown in the GALLERY come from - - Snowdonia - where the Vision Quest took place - Young foxes in meadow at Sladebank Woods, the day after Kesty's return from the mountain - Quantock Hills - painting by David Macfarlane 1990, Kesty's father - Wolf & Moon lino cut by Kesty, Sacred Arts Camp May 2018 - Artwork by local artist, Jaine Rose - Rosa Davis, sculptor - ' This sculpture was gifted to me by Rosa Davis. I love her, she sings of stone & moss & deep wild nature. Rosa is an inspiring local artist in Stroud who has made figures from a young child'. - 'I have been inspired by Carolyn Hillyer's writing and songs for many years. Her book 'Sacred House' is a great treasure to me.' - Sladebank Woods - photos from the beautiful woods - Sleepout Event poster for the Gloucestershire…
OUR GALLERY PRESENTS INSPIRING WORDS AND IMAGES HOMES HOUSES The Gallery shows different aspects of HOME HOUSES - inspiring in their unique way - Handbuilt tree houses in forests - HERE - Tiny Houses - HERE - Whiskey barrel houses, Eco village in Findhorn, Scotland - HERE - Experience a community-driven response to the global migration crisis - Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera: 10,148,451 – Exhibition at Tate Modern - HERE - Homes in Medellín, Colombia: reinventing the world's most dangerous city - HERE and HERE Mayor of Medellin - HERE - 'Right To Buy' your council house - HERE - Squatters - HERE - Living in a Beirut refugee camp, Lebanon - HERE - Homes flooded in Kerala - HERE - Houses devastated in Indonesian Tsunami - HERE - See the current Vincent Van Gogh @ Tate - while he was homed in Britain HERE Anne Yarwood February 2019
WE CAN WRAP OUR DAILY LIVES, IN BEAUTY A picture celebration of family and friends' imaginings: skilful play, with all forms of Creativity WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING ? THE QUESTION WAS : - in your daily life “WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING?” David : retired Civil Engineer - Self discipline, jobs to do, commitment to basic values and common sense...don’t like skivers. Anne : Website editor - Listening. Questioning. Laughing. Being irreverent. Smiling into others’ eyes. Ziba : Post Mistress - Keeping space from civilisation. Graham : Storyboard Artist film industry - I like personal and professional opportunities ...within which my private life has opportunity to recover, appreciate the arts, have space in our life. Local pharmacist - I have scores of prescriptions to make-up.My work keeps me going. Marie Lou : Hospital domestic staff - I keep going with my job whilst I’m fit ...my girls and keeping myself fit. Tracey : Carer - My son aged 21 graduated from Uni…
AWE AND WONDER AWE and WONDER are words used frequently on this website. I look at cosmology images first thing every morning. Vast canvasses; self, set within enormity: significant consciousness.... insignificant in time & space. A service of ASD at NASA/GSFC & Michigan Tech.University LOOK AT THE STARS HERE Visit the London Greenwich Planetarium to take a tour of the Universe and experience the wonders of the night sky with expert commentary from real astronomers. Fly to the heart of the Sun, go to distant galaxies, see the birth of a star or land on Mars - READ MORE HERE Vertigo Sea is an exhibition featuring two remarkable installations by acclaimed artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah - expressing the feeling of what it is like to be at the mercy of something vast and presenting an opportunity to meditate upon our place within the world, against the immense spaces and epic timescales evoked by the films; they remind us of our interconnectedness and the diverse, ghostly community that…
ASCENT FESTIVAL - PAINTING FROM MEDITATION ASCENT aimed to introduce a wide range of approaches to environmental education in this Festival including playing, meditating, messing about, being deeply inward... Sarah Cox, Multi-faith Minister, inspired the day with reflection and encouragement. We painted all day in silence then shared, LOVING the amazing paintings. John O’Donohue: 'Awake to the mystery of being here, and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.'
WE CAN WRAP OUR DAILY LIVES, IN BEAUTY A picture celebration of family and friends' imaginings: skilful play, with all forms of Creativity ADAM TREWARTHA'S GALLERY Based in Windsor, Berkshire with an LRPS distinction from the Royal Photographic Society. Offical photographer for the Windsor Fringe Festival since 2004 and Chairman of Windsor Photographic Society from 2008-2010. With a diverse range of photographic expertise to meet the varied needs of his clients, he relishes the challnge that every new job brings. Anne feels honoured to know the Trewartha family, as friends : Creative individuals. We got to know Adam some five years ago when we commissioned him to photograph one of our grandchildren, at sixteen. The hours of attention Adam gave to this task of encouragement.. showed us his skill and his sensitivity."
The pictures are of people involved in the ASCENT Network activities 2014 -2016 and also of Anne's house and garden in Ascot.
The pictures are of people involved in the ASCENT Network activities 2014 -2016 and also of Anne's house and garden in Ascot.
Iraq and Iran
CALL TO THE WILD: Images that inspire Kesty
Homes Houses Gallery
Resources and Reflections Gallery
What keeps you going? Gallery
SPIRITUALITY – acting through non-acting Gallery
Enter an Animal’s Consciousness Gallery
PERMACULTURE Gallery
SELF EMPLOYED: CHOICE…. NECESSITY Gallery
MAKE YOUR MARK: SOUND YOUR VOICE – Across Time and Places Gallery
Shoulder to Shoulder: Peace Direct Gallery
Awe and Wonder Gallery
THIRSTING FOR WATER – WELLS FOR INDIA Gallery
MAGICAL CONNECTIONS with FRIENDS AND FAMILY through our PAINTINGS Gallery
Handmade Things Gallery
Ascent Gallery – Painting from Mediatation
Value and Visions Gallery
International Art Class, Malaysia
The Quiet Garden Gallery
How come we didn’t know? Gallery
Seats and Chairs Gallery
Tina Hanna’s Gallery
Steve Searle’s Gallery
Environmental Photographer Gallery
Adam Trewartha’s Gallery
Sue Yarwood’s Gallery
Ascot and Ascent Gallery
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