Summer Solstice;
Full of light and life,
The long, long day!
Happy Summer Solstice, everyone!
Ashley
Summer Solstice 2025
Month: June 2025
Lee Krasner: Kick-About #134
The Kick-About prompts from Phil Gomm’s blog at Red’s Kingdom, are an amazing way for me to explore my own visual creativity. For too long I have ignored the artistic side of who I am, and so the K-A is helping me recover my art……..literally! On and off throughout my adult life I have tried something to launch into the visual arts but nothing has worked until now, and the K-A is helping me! The work below is something I did over 20 years ago on a weekend printing course in Wells-next the Sea!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells-next-the-Sea
The latest K-A prompt was Lee Krasner, a female American artist involved in a movement known as Abstract Expressionism. The quote below comes from internet searches and I think it also perfectly fits my own point of view:
Abstract Expressionists value the organism over the static whole, becoming over being, expression over perfection, vitality over finish, fluctuation over repose, feeling over formulation, the unknown over the known, the veiled over the clear, the individual over society and the inner over the outer.
That was written by William C. Seitz, an American artist and Art historian (1914-1974).
Head on over to Phil’s blog to see this submission and the work of the other amazing artists, such wonderful ingenuity and creativity. Here is the link:
Ashley
A short break in Dundrum, County Down
Two heads,
Surface near the quay;
Harbour seals.
We had a short break in Dundrum, County Down, staying in a fabulous apartment that overlooked the bay. We were a little unlucky not to have the warm sunny weather of the previous three weeks, however, we thoroughly enjoyed our time there. There is a small supermarket and petrol station, a pub and a couple of restaurants and eateries! I shall add a couple of links at the bottom of the page.
Here are a few of the photos from our visit:
There’s a ruined castle to explore and some really wonderful walks around the area, Murlough National Nature Reserve being exceptional. There is also a Coastal Rowing Club; one of my photos shows a couple of boats being launched. Just a few miles south of the village is Newcastle with plenty of shops and places to eat.
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/6345709?source_impression_id=p3_1749475035_P3OXqYmaL4EnlnNC
James Turrell: Kick-About #133
It’s been a really busy time, and we’ve also been on holiday (more later) so I’m pleased to say that I was still able to take part in the latest Kick-About. This time the prompt from Phil was the artist James Turrell. Please follow the link to see my work there along with what others have submitted.
The Kick-About #133 ‘James Turrell’
Here is a preview of my submission:
When I was opening the vertical blinds in our sunny bedroom, the effect of the bright sunshine streaming through the blinds triggered something in my memory of one of Turrell’s artworks. That was my starting point, although something else I’d read about his work also slipped subconsciously into my own artwork. For decades, Turrell has been constructing a “naked-eye” observatory………..in an extinct cinder cone volcano!
Turrell has been called the “master of light” and I cannot ignore what was going on musically in the 1970’s with one of my favourite rock bands, Electric Light Orchestra. The song Mr. Blue Sky was originally released in 1977 but here is a brilliant and colourfully illustrated video from 2019.
Ashley
A Different View 