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Artist-in-Residence

A 2nd life

January 4, 2010

Jerry Michalski has been coming to Windgrove off and on for a month doing sketches, preparatory small paintings and now, today, a larger, final oil painting of Roaring Beach. Generally, his routine is to awake at 6AM, observe the light on the beach, take notes and then meet me for morning coffee and toast around [...]

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Getting ready for market

June 9, 2006

Each day a little closer. The process to survey the blocks of land I intend to sell for the further development of the Windgrove Artist-in-resident program was begun this week. An interesting process, indeed, as we walked and drove any number of kilometres just to do the preliminary work of establishing the north and east [...]

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Three mandala paintings

March 2, 2006

Today’s blog has been written by Sally Horne, Windgrove artist-in-residence from December till the end of February. My quiet activism: Chinese Medicine and mandalas as a means of creating harmony. We learn to speak a language. And then within that language many of us, perhaps on a spiritual journey or a journey of seeking meaning [...]

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Circling yet again

December 21, 2005

Song (4) Within the circles of our lives we dance the circles of the years, the circles of the seasons within the circles of the years, the cycles of the moon within the circles of the seasons, the circles of our reasons within the cycles of the moon. Again, again we come and go, changed, [...]

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A better place?

December 9, 2005

Nine years ago while still living in the bus, I built a simple storage room and office plus spare bedroom. Then, when I moved into the main house it sort of reverted to a small studio space for visiting artists. The problem, however, was that the space was relatively dark and every artist that tried [...]

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Departures

November 12, 2005

Upon returning from Hobart yesterday (about the time the sun was just beginning its descent over the edge of the world), I walked out to the Sunset Bench with its new deck. It had been built by Pino and myself just two days earlier and I had quickly come to like, even as one sat [...]

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Healthy living

November 4, 2005

Weighing in at 1000 pounds and over ten feet/3 meters in length, the top half of the Gull Stone Bench has finally been hoisted into position within the circled native grass sanctuary overlooking Roaring Beach. After ten years in the making, walkers of the Peace Path now have one more place to rest and enjoy [...]

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Old friends

October 27, 2005

I first met the iron worker/ sculptor, Bill Brown, when he was a hell raising 19 year old chasing, in equal measure, women and the demons within himself. This year, turning 50, he reckoned that a good way to celebrate both his birthday and his 25 years of being totally committed to Alcoholics Anonymous would [...]

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Tree dash

September 1, 2005

Look carefully at this photo — especially the shadow area beneath the feet — and it appears that Melanie Mowinski is flying, paper in hand, going from tree to tree, drawing, drawing, drawing. Charcoal brought from America was soon used up. Charcoal from the Peace Fire, charcoal from elsewhere. Everywhere, broken, worn bits of charcoal [...]

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Postscript

August 12, 2005

A quick postscript to the last blog entry. I awoke yesterday morning to snow in the hills in the Roaring Beach water catchment area. Across Storm Bay, the distant hills to the west looked like a wintry Colorado scene. Walking to the beach for my surf, there were white pockets of hail scattered throughout the [...]

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