Evie Wolffe

"La collation", del pintor francés Louis Émile Villa (1836-1900).

Scott Fraser - Crab Cake, 2019

The word for “snow” in Old English was snāw, pronounced as ‘snaa-w’ (/ɑ:/ as in father, not as with “awe”, which is /ɔ:/).

The sound we make when we say the word “snow” usually corresponds with a long ā in Old English, like with “know” (cnāwan), “stone” (stān), and “woe” (wā).

Lucy Crick
Still Life

French/Japanese

‘No One Knows’ by Osamu Dazai (Review) It’s two years ago now that I undertook my January in Japan project on Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human, reading and reviewing three translations into English and pitting them against each…

It's Osamu Dazai time today for #JanuaryInJapan, with a slightly more feminine side than usual - take a look at my review of 'No One Knows' (translated by Ralph McCarthy, published by New Directions), a collection of fourteen stories told by women :)
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With a penchant for painting on old book covers, artist and storyteller Andrew Cranston produces quiet work that contrasts with the hubbub outside his Glasgow studio.
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'All the Fun of...' Wanstead Flats (2023) by Doreen Fletcher

The Science of Savoring When it comes to savoring and enjoying your food, studies increasingly show that the ‘how’ might be as important as the ‘what.’

Savoring your food, ultimately, helps you savor the rest of your life.
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I've found the perfect candle to harmonise the kitchen after cooking. Unintrusive, subtle and appetising.
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Objects

Seeing some moves over there but mainly those who see it as the last straw. Otherwise business as usual. A lot of free speech banner waving.

Parker Jotter

I'm guessing that's a 1970 Parker Jotter fountain pen. A beauty.
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I have a love/hate relationship with oil pastel. It can vary from subtle to garish and it's difficult to work over an oily surface. The background to this was lightly indicated with watercolour and then oil pastel used when dry and not overworked. The medlars are from the garden.

Medlars on a patterned cloth, oil pastel over watercolour
#stilllife #art #medlars #oilpastel

I've got some really terrible photos taken with a plastic camera of the beach from 1975!

So thrilled to see The Borrowed Hills among this great longlist of first novels! 🐑🐑🐑

That's what they love. What a mystic scene. I do similar where the sheep punch holes in the hedges. Blackthorn and apple deadwood that is too tough to cut. Roughly latticed but dense. Close enough to watch the activity.

Read "The Borrowed Hills" by Scott Preston in November. This could be my follow up.

Make A Currey The India Way

'Request Stop, Hampstead.' (c1950) Stephen Bone
thanks to @ahistoryinart.bsky.social

'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.

(Ontario not Cambridgeshire)

If you are in charge of even the smallest piece of land, it’s important to remember that it’s the rough, untidy edges and corners that get wildlife through freezing weather; long grasses, fat hedges, wood piles. Ruthless tidiness makes life so much harder for wild creatures.

“Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.”

( dish by camdenclay.co.uk )

The Ozark episode cards were genius and an illustrative style that should be used more for book covers, poetry collections, short stories, recipe books. An illustrated teaser.

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps.
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Broccoli Magazine Issue One
Founded by the former creative director of Kinfolk and was launched in November 2017.