#270: Seal
‘The circus had been unlike anything I could ever imagine and I could not walk away. I wanted to be a part of the magic, create it and wield it with such skill that it looked effortless.’ – Laura Lam, Pantomime
Tag: Portrait
#266: Painting
‘Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.’ – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
#261: Carb loading
‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.’ – Benjamin Franklin Marathon week…time to start eating. A lot!
#249: Harebell
‘Did the harebell loose her girdle To the lover bee?’ – Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems
#243: Cranes
‘Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.’ – Israelmore Ayivor
#242: Old Curiosity Shop
‘Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living’ – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
#241: Birds of Paradise
‘Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.’ – Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
#233: The Warren Cup
‘…like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.’ – Homer, The Iliad One of my favourite exhibits in the British Museum, a first century AD silver cup called The Warren Cup…
#232: British Museum
‘And let thy feet millenniums hence be set in the midst of knowledge’ – Tennyson
#231: Forest
‘And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul’ – John Muir