tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29874869412081040232024-03-05T20:40:42.734+00:00Jennifer Tetlow - Stone Sculpture JournalInside the World and Workshop of a Stone SculptorJennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-79634538336034127572014-01-24T16:08:00.000+00:002014-01-24T16:08:24.271+00:00New Blog Address<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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I've just finished updating my website. This re-design includes an integrated blog
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It was such a beautiful evening, I took myself for a stroll and found the pathways vibrant green, lush and gloriously sunlit.</div>
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A profusion of Pink Perslane, banks of spoon-shaped leaves, fleshy stems and pretty pink flowers. </div>
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It is a plant that is not a native, but was introduced in the 18th century from Siberia and North America. The leaves are edible and the beety flavour is good in salads (another name for it is <i>miner's lettuce</i>), or they can be cooked. Must try them. For now there was sufficient enjoyment in seeing them growing wild, carpeting my walk, their fresh pinky faces smiling a good evening.</div>
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Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-47736040316679778612013-05-19T14:41:00.000+01:002013-05-19T14:42:52.538+01:00Long-tailed Tits<div style="text-align: justify;">
I've just had a wonderful encounter coming out of my store-shed - a Long-tailed Tit flew in making lots of noise, and landed on the door jamb. I stood motionless, watching it - absolutely amazed I should be only inches away. Then, it flitted from the door frame onto my arm - just above the elbow (I can feel the sensation of it landing and its claws gripping my shirt as I write this - like a little kiss!).</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Long-tailed Tit painting by <a href="http://finchartsandcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/">Finch Arts</a></span></div>
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A bird has never landed on me like that before - I wonder if it is nesting in the shed and was trying to see me off!</div>
Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-51711023695529015122013-05-17T07:49:00.000+01:002013-05-17T07:51:27.003+01:00Special Bootscraper<div style="text-align: justify;">
Recently I was asked to make a Bootscraper as gift for a Chairman who was stepping down after 17 years, to be presented at the company's Annual General Meeting.</div>
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It turned out to be a rather special privilege as the company was QMJ Publishing Ltd - <span class="st"><i>QMJ Publishing</i> is a privately owned
publishing and exhibition business that serves the quarrying, recycling
and natural stone industries</span> (they are responsible for publishing the <a href="http://www.naturalstonespecialist.com/">Natural Stone Specialist</a> magazine, and also for running the <a href="http://www.stoneshow.co.uk/">Natural Stone Show</a> each year!) </div>
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So I feel very proud to share the publicity with you</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Changing of the guard at QMJ</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">PICTURED above is John Hopkins (left of photo) stepping down as chairman of QMJ Publishing Ltd at the company’s AGM on Thursday 9 May 2013 with his successor, Terry Last. As a memento of his 19 years on the board, 17 of which were as chairman, John was presented with a handsome boot scraper specially commissioned from North Yorkshire based sculptor, Jennifer Tetlow. The base of the boot scraper was hand carved in the shape of the QMJ logo from a block of Woodkirk Yorkstone, the sculptor’s favorite material, which was sourced from Woodkirk Stone’s Brittania Quarries at Morley, near Leeds.</span></div>
<br />Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-14336668521298338242013-05-16T10:42:00.000+01:002013-05-16T10:44:03.652+01:00Pig on the run<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not something you see every day - a Pig in the village, running towards you in the road. This one was trotting happily in Lastingham, making pig noises. A neighbour corralled it into a nearby front garden. It immediately used its rubbery nose to lift the latch and tried to push its way out - luckily seen in time and string was procured to keep it contained.</div>
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It was very tame and friendly, happily taking apples, carrots - and actually anything it was offered - and enjoyed scratches and tickles from us all.</div>
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The Village grape-vine is super effective, and soon the owner came to rescue her piggy.</div>
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What characters pigs are - and how communicative - reminds me of watching wild boar when I was trying to get a likeness for carving a <a href="http://www.jennifertetlow.co.uk/AnimalSculpturewildboar.html">pair of boar in stone. </a></div>
<br />Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-56174505321397680702013-05-15T12:35:00.001+01:002013-05-15T12:35:30.024+01:00Spring Blossom<div style="text-align: justify;">
When the spring weather turns from sun to showers and the wind drives you indoors - it is lovely to continue to enjoy some seasonal beauty, and one of my favourites is Blackthorn Blossom. It looks much the best out on the branches - but so pretty close up too. The contrast of dark brown stems, and the froths of white flowers are enchanting in a vase.</div>
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The beautiful white blossom tends to appear early in the year before the
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There is a thought that bringing the Blossom into the house is unlucky - this thorny native plant (also known as Snag) has much folklore surrounding it, but is wonderful for wildlife. The blossoms, 'heralds of spring', attract a range of early insects to pollinate them.
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When the leaves appear they provide food for the larvae of Black and Brown Hairstreak
butterflies. The tree is also the food plant for the caterpillars of the
following moths - March, Common Emerald, Little Emerald, Mottle Pug,
Feathered Thorn, Orange, Scalloped Hazel, Scalloped Oak, Swallowtailed,
Brimstone, August Thorn, Early Thorn, Pale Brindled Beauty, Blue
Bordered Carpet, Broken Barred Carpet, November, Pale November, Winter,
Sloe Pug, Green Pug, Sharp Angled Peacock and The Magpie.</div>
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Really enough of a claim to fame already, and we haven't begun to talk of the wood, or that it is related to the plum and produces bitter fruit, that we know as sloes (eaten since Neolithic times!) and you can dry the leaves and use as a substitute for tea, and ... Perhaps it should be known as 'Wonder-Snag'! </div>
Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-2796073976338741632013-04-23T18:24:00.001+01:002013-04-23T18:25:11.967+01:00St George's DayHappy day - here he is, St George, a little faded from years of doing battle with the dragon!<br />
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Carvings at the entrance of Kirkham Priory, North YorkshireJennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-10567362966197021762013-04-21T12:42:00.000+01:002013-04-21T12:45:17.856+01:00Ladybirds<div style="text-align: justify;">
Along with the <a href="http://jennifertetlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/beetles-and-bees.html">butterflies, bees and other insects</a>, I certainly want to attract Ladybirds to my garden<span style="font-size: xx-small;">, <span style="font-size: small;">and not only because they feed on insect pests, especially aphids, but because they are so colourful and it always makes me feel happy when I see them.</span></span></div>
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specific types of plants. The most popular ones have umbrella
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I was amazed to see the date so fast approaching for the <a href="http://www.flowershow.org.uk/">Harrogate Spring Flower Show</a> on my wall planner - one of my very favourite flower shows. I know everyone is planning and pulling everything together for the opening on 25th April and it will be interesting to see what miracles the growers have performed after the poor start to Spring and then the destructive winds.</div>
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Do you like her idea of the focal point, of a sculptural pot? I thought it looked just like my pot with the determined cherry in it. So I feel rather inspired by this and look forward to seeing the garden completed in all its glory on the show days. Hopefully I will be able to transfer some of these ideas to my little area at the sheds. And I can make a lovely stone bench too, to sit quietly and admire the pretty pinky white blossoms.</div>
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I don't know anyone who does this better than Milly - her drawing is sensitive, intelligent and beautifully styled and intensely conveys the natural world through her superb draughtsmanship and instinctive use of colour. Actually, Milly is a nickname and the lady who is, happiest when drawing, is Eileen Postlethwaite - owner of the wonderful blog <a href="http://drawingsfromnature-milly.blogspot.co.uk/">Drawings from Nature</a>. I adore her posts about local walks, collecting items to bring home and draw - whatever medium she uses, and she uses many, she masters with delightful results.</div>
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Recently Eileen had a give-away on her blog, and miraculously I was pulled out of the entries as a winner (thankyou Mr P). Today I received a parcel from her - it is best if I show you what a pleasure it was to open.</div>
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From its brown outer wrapping came these two packages with beautiful tags, tags with a hand printed Hare and illustrations of a feather.</div>
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But first, the reason why I entered the giveaway in the first place - because I could not resist the possibility of owning one of Eileen's beautiful Hare pin-cushions.</div>
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Then to the second package - it contained this beautiful folder. The back of which was just as exquisitely illustrated.</div>
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But inside! It contained a host of large cards of Eileen's drawings - leaves, shells, acorns, feathers and more. I'm examining each and every one in minute detail and marvelling!</div>
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the drawings. Please do not use or copy without asking my permission,
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Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-55609346867005336492013-04-16T19:09:00.000+01:002013-04-16T19:11:01.386+01:00Delamore Arts<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://www.delamore-art.co.uk/index.php">Delamore Arts and Sculpture Park</a> is based at Cornwood in South Devon.
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The imposing house was built in 1859 and the gardens, which are rarely open to the public,
were laid out at a similar time with plantings of newly imported
rhododendrons and magnificent trees. Seen at their best during May, they
are an ideal backdrop for sculpture large and small, from Henry Moore
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Wonderfully, last year over 8,000 visitors came to see the art, sculpture park and gardens. They are open <b>every day in May</b> to view over 120 paintings in the ballroom and over 100 sculptures around the park and garden and down towards the lake.</div>
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This year I am showing a few pieces and today they set off on their voyage to Devon. I always find this a rather anxious time - as the sculptures are loaded onto the carrier's transport and disappear on their journey. Until I know they have arrived safely I will have a niggling worry. </div>
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You are, of course, all invited to the exhibition, and to the preview, which is on Sunday the 28th April between 2 and 6 pm - if you would like to visit on this day please let me know and I will send you one of these beautiful cards.</div>
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Can't wait to see my stone pieces in estate's beautiful garden setting - it will be a wonderful treat to view my sculpture (well, all the sculpture) outdoors in the landscape, amongst established planting, greenery and flowers. </div>
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For those who have read my blog for a while, you'll know that I love these little birds. Each year a pair of Pied Wagtails have nested at my workshop and raised successful broods. Their first job seems to be a thorough clean-up of old nests and possible nest sites, and then bring in fresh material. They are quite messy with this, and drop bits of hay, feathers, moss and dried grass, so I know just where they have been. They seem to know I am watching them though, and try to keep their chosen spot a secret and don't generally go to it until I look away, or carry on with what I am doing.</div>
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Last week a pair returned, flitting and chirping and home making, which made me very glad.</div>
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Over the last few weeks of freezing cold, with intermittent sun, I've found the very best place to be is the greenhouse. As soon as I step inside, the bitter, heat sapping wind is absent and the sun sufficient to make for a really cosy temperature. So, I've taken to having lunch there each day. Somehow my food tastes especially good!</div>
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It has been a great opportunity to do some tidying, pottering and planting and have a really good check on all my plants.</div>
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<a href="http://jennifertetlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/easter-visitors.html">The pair return</a>, or perhaps new Greylag Geese coming in to feed and check out the local nesting site potential. The fields have been busy with geese, ducks and Curlew, all calling and talking over each other - a hauntingly beautiful sound-track and my 'background' music whilst working!</div>
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On this day in 1722 the first recorded European visitor arrived at Easter Island - the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen. Actually he was looking for somewhere else and found it by mistake! In that year Easter Sunday was the 5th April - so he called the Island 'Easter Island'.</div>
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We now know the statues so well now - but I am trying to think what it must have been like to come across them for the first time. They are incredible. It must have been rather daunting, and maybe a bit frightening. I think it is still a bit of a mystery as to how those great lumps of carved stone were moved. There is a lovely story about a woman who lived at the top of the mountain, and she ordered them to walk wherever she wanted!.</div>
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Most of the heads are carved in a stone which is compressed volcanic ash (the island is a volcano) and though now weathered and eroded by time, when newly made, the surface would have been burnished and smoothed. The carvers finished the heads by rubbing them with pumice. Many stone tools have been found on the Island, and we know that the statues were carved with different
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It is ages since I set off for a walk - I've thought about it, but then it hasn't happened - too cold, too much snow, too much to do, after I've ... and so on! A few rays of sunshine did the trick.</div>
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What a lovely time - the beginning was marked out for me by many previous feet - I love the twisty tree roots exposed by the wear and step over them carefully.</div>
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There's further evidence of others having come this way too. Though it was sunny, there was a biting wind and it flurried and swept at the captured wool, teasing the tufts.</div>
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I can tell which flock grazed here and to which farmer they belong by the red wool caught.</div>
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I move to the field edge, to the shelter of the hedgerow. My eyes and nose are streaming from the stinging, icy wind and my cheeks and ears burn.</div>
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A skin like this is good protection. It offers me respite.</div>
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How beautiful wood is, alive or decaying. Twists and knots, whirls and marks of growth, wounds and wonders of shape.</div>
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The hedge petered out and I was left with an old fence.</div>
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It got very boggy and I was brought to my senses by the upflight, from only a foot away, of a curlew - which must have been feeding in the soft, wet ground - proddling with its beak in the easy going soil. Then moments later another, its mate? How I wished I could be less threatening in the landscape and to have spotted them before I caused alarm. Along the way I scattered a number of rabbits too, and pheasants.</div>
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The sight of an old hen-house signals I'm close to the overgrown path back home.</div>
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The soundtrack to my recent walk was rich in curlew calls, occasional lapwing, distant sheep and the drumming woodpecker (oh, and the wind!).</div>
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The wind I heard in the trees too, creaking, twisting and bending of wood fibre and the whip and clash of branches together. Some of the wood was silent, perhaps torn down by previous winds and I spent some time looking over the beautifully textured knobbles and fissures in the fallen limbs.</div>
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Where the bark had fallen away, the wood was making more skin like surfaces.</div>
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I'm not sure what caused these pimples.</div>
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But burrowing insects made these little drill holes.</div>
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I came across a tree, dead, but still standing, which was the home of the woodpecker and full of the results of all that drumming.</div>
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This tree was riddled with the workings and markings of the woodpeckers, with many holes, new and old.</div>
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I heard woodpecker, drumming and calling, but didn't see any until, after having walked some distance from the dead tree, I heard the distinctive, loud, almost laughing, ringing woodpecker sound, and turned to see the undulating flight and a Green Woodpecker returning to the tree.</div>
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No wonder they've made home here, they feed on the grubs of wood-boring beetles and moths which they remove from the bark of trees with their long sticky tongues. They also love to eat ants which they will take from the ground as well as from the trees. This would appear to be perfect habitat. This one is possibly marking territory or making a new nest hole - egg laying time is in April or May, when between 5 and 7 are laid and only take fourteen days to incubate. It is a long way off, but this is a female - the males have a red stripe, rather than black, under their eye. Happy nesting Mrs Woodpecker.</div>
<br />Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-10276392431842293262013-04-03T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-03T08:00:16.004+01:00Easter Visitors<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some distant relatives dropped in over Easter - they grazed a while and then took off, calling loudly. My girls didn't take much notice - but I watched until the specs disappeared in the cold sky, and wondered where they were headed.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">A pair of Greylag Geese - they were very nervous and constantly on-guard - watching me as intently as I was watching them!</span></div>
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These past few days of sunshine have envigorated a gardening spirit and I've been pottering, tidying and planning. I'm extending an area which is to be left natural. Last year it was very successful, in terms of wildlife, food for birds and insects. In fact I'm planning altogether to encourage more insects, and help pollinators. Bees and butterflies hibernate in winter, so don't forage when it's truly
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">To celebrate the new planned 'insect friendly' garden, I've made some insect mini <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pots</span> in stone</span></div>
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I need early crocus and some winter aconites to cover the beginning of the year, and then for March and April - violets and cowslips, followed by borage and strawberry. The hedgerow helps, and my apple tree does really well blossom wise - but perhaps a pear would be good as this blossom comes a little earlier. I would love to train a pear along a fence, which would help with shelter and for birds too. My wildflower area last summer was a total loss, so I will re-visit this with hopefully more success. The little pots of lavender, which I grew from seed last year, will be a great help and my gooseberry bushes too are well loved by insects.</div>
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My herb bed is always teeming with bees and butterflies, so I will make bigger areas for dill, fennel and parsley and allow the sage and thyme their spread. The mint always romps away, but I might try a different variety as well. Enough to be going on with! </div>
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So, they'll have shelter, with my odd pile of stone around, food and water. </div>
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I just discovered that one of my little stone pots, which I've been planting up with crocus, is a perfect size to make a goose egg cup!<br />
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Had a lovely Wednesday morning at Stef Mitchell's workshop held at <a href="http://www.duckettandjeffreys.com/">Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery</a> - an introduction to woodcut. It is a very satisfying process, holding little cutting tools (a bit like lino print) and slicing away strips and shavings - the wood makes a light tearing sound as I plough through it with inexperienced hands!</div>
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This little 'taster' has given me an appetite - I am sure having another attempt, in light of my learning, will bring about a print more sympathetic to the material, utilizing some of its natural characteristics more artfully.</div>
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The little print that did emerge from my labour, was a bird, egg laying - and I wanted to give the impression of it in its nest within a hollow tree, at what should really have been a private time.</div>
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Stef is running more printmaking courses over Easter - contact the <a href="http://www.duckettandjeffreys.com/">gallery</a> for details.</div>
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Hens and Chicks are the names often given to Sempervivums - I love these evergreen perennials with their mats of fleshy-leaved rosettes.
The "hen" is the main plant, and the "chicks" are the offspring, which
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My little plants have looked rather sad lately - I think they were expecting better weather by now - so I thought I would bring them indoors and re-pot them.</div>
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I've made lots of little - really mini - pots for them all. These are hewn from my usual sandstone and are a perfect size to get the little 'chicks' going when they leave their mother.</div>
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Some I thought I would put a design on - in this case a hen - obviously! Recently I was involved with a project where the lettering was designed to be leaded (as was often found on gravestones and taken to exalted heights by the Victorians). This process is seldom seen now, it is highly labour-intensive - but I think looks stunning. The letters end up being filled with lead, level with the surface of the stone, and polished - very elegant and striking.</div>
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I wanted to get this look, but with a carved image on the front of my little planters, and have been trying to achieve this with my sandstone mini-pots. One of the difficulties was that once the image was carved, the lead needs tamping down into the crisp cut shape, and this hammering (even with the softest rubber or leather hammer) causes the delicate sandstone edges round the image to break up and crumble slightly - thereby distorting the carefully carved image. Very frustrating!</div>
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<br />Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-32419404898693011072013-01-28T09:10:00.000+00:002013-01-28T09:10:48.303+00:00Big Garden Birdwatch<div style="text-align: justify;">
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A very enjoyable time, apart from the sleet and wind. It is interesting to see the results of everyone's bird counts that are collected by the <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/">RSPB </a>and the difference in data over years. Some bird species seem to be declining, while others are growing in number and they are keen to find out the reasons why.</div>
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It is anyway a wonderful excuse to be quiet and watch wildlife in the garden (in my case at my worksheds) and learn more about each bird's habits and character. I was thrilled to see the Bullfinch - a pair flew in and landed on the dock stems and pecked at the seed sprigs - but the bird which I enjoyed watching most was the Dunnock. Rather secretive and well camouflaged, it bobbed and flitted about feeding and hiding in the branches or hopping on the ground, skittish on its thin pinky/orange legs.</div>
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Thankyou all you birds for visiting my garden and being so lovely to watch!Jennifer Tetlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216669559770468403noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987486941208104023.post-47745641014364209792013-01-26T07:45:00.000+00:002013-01-26T07:45:48.604+00:00Green ShootsAs the latest thick blanket of snow lands from leaden grey skies, I'm indoors marvelling at a delicate green shoot on my pussy willow stems. <br />
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My feeders have been busy all day with birds - Blue-tits, Great-tits, Dunnocks, Chaffinch, Robins, Cole-tits, Blackbirds, Woodpecker and a gang of Long-Tailed-tits came by, and noisily took over for half an hour or so. Alarm call shrieks made me stick my head out of the workshop, to see a Sparrow Hawk swoop past in determined flight. All was quiet for a while.</div>
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The workshop wren came onto my workbench and I stood very still, it flew down and walked across my boots! The Robins too are coming very close.</div>
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