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Sally Horne

An artist’s life – 2

January 23, 2008

We were never told it would be easy. What we were told was that it would be worth it. After all the trials and tribulations that go into both the painting of the paintings and the hanging of the paintings, Sally’s exhibition opening was nothing less than a stunning success. The joyful party atmosphere throughout [...]

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An artist’s life

January 15, 2008

All too often people think that being an artist is a care free, no stress, easy going way to make a living that just touches on being a serious, worthy occupation. Our office (our studios) can be visited, it seems, at any time of the week because we’re not really doing anything that requires a [...]

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Moonstone mandala

September 13, 2007

Every sound has a home from which it has come to us and a door through which it is going again out into the world to make another home. David Whyte—from “The Winter of Listening” At the ancient pond a frog plunges into the sound of water Masuo Basho Slowly, slowly over a period of [...]

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An artist’s reality

September 5, 2007

As the Philosopher says, He who contemplates a statue Shares the thought of the artist; The statue itself does not. As the soul contemplates nature, The spirit the light, and the mind The stars, every eye sees into The matrix from which it was born. Kenneth Rexroth Wild Roaring Beach faces south towards the great [...]

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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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