Category Archives: Art

Stones of the Night III… Stuart France

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …After a longer than expected climb up the steeper than anticipated side of the plateaux, you are finally within appraisal distance of the pointed stone. Its presence, which now looms towards you, defining the false horizon, seems to demand … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night II… Stuart France

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the ferns thin you spy a wooden stile up ahead and descend the grassy-knoll rather too quickly for the conditions underfoot, trotting to the stile side, precariously, and resting awhile to catch your breath. A road runs to … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night… Stuart France

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading →

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Baecca’s Well… Stuart France

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* From Baecca’s Well Via All Saint’s Spire * * To a rocky height That holds initiatory fire… * Source: Stuart France

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Adoration of the One? III… Stuart France

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “As an aid to poesis the Chain of Being works in numerous ways.” * * “It lends life to the notion of an interconnected cosmos without superfluity and raises the dignity of creation by recognising its symbiotic heights and … Continue reading →

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Adoration of the One? II… Stuart France

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Another curiosity, found in the Chain of Being, held that each class possessed a ‘primate’.” * * “The eagle among birds, the lion among beasts, the king or emperor among men.” * * “Other primacies were the sun among … Continue reading →

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On the trail yet again…

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

We opened the door of St Mary’s and walked in. It felt rather odd as the altar was at the ‘wrong’ end for the door. Usually, you enter from the south and turn right to the altar, here, the main … Continue reading →

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Circle of Heaven… Stuart France

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* To find a Black-Bird’s Stone Laid-by the Snake of Steel City, Before the Lowly-Ladies House, Beyond a Blood-Baked Bridge. O’er stile and up, a rise Which leads out-the-wood High, upon a ridge… Continue reading at Stuart France

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Derbyshire’s Green Man… Stuart France

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Beyond the forest’s leafy shade, The hooded one, with giant’s pace From pinnacle to pinnacle Leap’t silently, in moonlit grace… * In eremitic solitude In caverns deep to meditate… Within, the riddle of the night, A key that will … Continue reading →

Guest artist and author: Andrea Torrey Balsara – Hello, Anxiety, My Old Friend…

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

This morning I feel anxious. The old feeling, one which had woken me up in the past, with shaking hands, a feeling of cold terror, and the urge to hide, accompanied every morning I had through junior high and high … Continue reading →