tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85196381914083608452024-03-13T16:31:29.632+13:00THE LAST VISIBLE DOGWhy Times How Equals WhatKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.comBlogger1373125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-68601261845478859602023-08-09T11:14:00.000+12:002023-08-09T11:14:03.211+12:00That Hat<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Vwr4oU9MHbP9IBxFwzmo9szYGCrlj6jcBiF1hqwu11Bk9106U3IaM331rxutdWJ5gExBw5ul7FRazx3fDbRPKeTWGYfVPPNUEb6W3zus7yIW1OpH033-VM5YO0Hun4-UNTqKOLEV42djvLhqnSkAW3fYWDPpaeF-SpYBTTpho3iW0rmJDEkPumr0bE34/s640/cathat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Vwr4oU9MHbP9IBxFwzmo9szYGCrlj6jcBiF1hqwu11Bk9106U3IaM331rxutdWJ5gExBw5ul7FRazx3fDbRPKeTWGYfVPPNUEb6W3zus7yIW1OpH033-VM5YO0Hun4-UNTqKOLEV42djvLhqnSkAW3fYWDPpaeF-SpYBTTpho3iW0rmJDEkPumr0bE34/w506-h338/cathat.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-55758255997802412602023-05-09T07:12:00.002+12:002023-05-09T07:12:14.234+12:00Good Morning from the Town<p>It's such a pleasure to see the sky wearing its morning sunrise garb, even if the foreground is urban - my neighbour's roof. 6.59am. We have heavy rain forecast tonight so I might check the gutters today. Although I cleaned them only recently, the trees are shedding their leaves at a great rate. We have a a very rainy summer in New Zealand, including several significant flood events. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplo_ew8Pf6Uc6MW67aqAXCOWydBYwqmn6HtTzl0nacXkZoQfK5LzV6fm2Fhy6PpwkIUztGSghOF9GLKWKFTATSlya4cDHoI9Ih-nohFRdM86hNpmBx5R3PPfxtu62hp-YVuld8KOjXIzgJQ7fVQGac1Zz4wvQ0lC7FWZukoxUO1qJZIHC2ymnP3vHng/s3264/IMG_1304.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplo_ew8Pf6Uc6MW67aqAXCOWydBYwqmn6HtTzl0nacXkZoQfK5LzV6fm2Fhy6PpwkIUztGSghOF9GLKWKFTATSlya4cDHoI9Ih-nohFRdM86hNpmBx5R3PPfxtu62hp-YVuld8KOjXIzgJQ7fVQGac1Zz4wvQ0lC7FWZukoxUO1qJZIHC2ymnP3vHng/w390-h293/IMG_1304.JPG" width="390" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-25023695626164287542021-02-06T14:40:00.006+13:002021-02-07T09:43:03.813+13:00Deepest Darkest New Zealand<p> Exactly a year ago I was a place in New Zealand I have never been, despite this being a relatively smallish three(-ish) islands, and me living here for 60 (-ish) years. </p><p>I will call it Deepest Darkest New Zealand, even 'tho' wet and wild Fiordland at the Southwestern part of NZ is probably a little deeper and darker. (Here was re-discovered the amazing <a href="https://ebird.org/species/takahe3">Takahe</a>, the very rare, thought-to-be-extinct, stumpy-legged, flightless, fat, evolved version of the common blue <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_swamphen">swamphen</a> which is seen throughout Asia.)</p><p>Anyway, Arthur's Pass is one of the four main passes through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Alps_/_K%C4%81_Tiritiri_o_te_Moana">backbone of mountains</a> that run up the South Island. There's not much at Arthur's except a cafe or two and a cluster of small houses, a conservation information centre, and a petrol station. Roy and I were lucky enough to be offered the use of a house belonging to my sister-in-law, and that's where we were, exactly a year ago, fossicking in the dripping beech forest and, a little further up the road, in the pristine alpine gardens, while almost all the populated part of New Zealand sweltered in summer droughts and, sadly, haze from the Australian bushfires... </p><p>Imagine moss everywhere, slugs, spiders, harvestmen, centipedes, beetles, moths, lichens, fungi ... A cornucopia of things of great interest to my travelling companion Swedish photographer friend <a href="http://www.amazonasphoto.com/">Roy</a>, and I.</p><p>We had only about a week to go before he had to fly out (just beating Covid border closures) back to Sweden, the two of us having had from mid November - 3 months straight - travelling and bug-hunting. all over New Zealand from top to almost the bottom. Marvellous! Pull up a chair to this blog, as over the next while I'll retrace our steps...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxqmsr7TrE14mu-C_sJ1FY0zRsj6cIc1q6M2w9vXXIdubsEeFL-tbGaaj6Gq8FM80P76o-hdxmTb7bRp82w_WFHozvg8FjAsuG-ZAmocjU0D1-nB_kbxMqDpw1O8vTkTXkB2EPAT4VrZp/s2048/Art.Bus.promo.kate.Arthursmoss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhxqmsr7TrE14mu-C_sJ1FY0zRsj6cIc1q6M2w9vXXIdubsEeFL-tbGaaj6Gq8FM80P76o-hdxmTb7bRp82w_WFHozvg8FjAsuG-ZAmocjU0D1-nB_kbxMqDpw1O8vTkTXkB2EPAT4VrZp/w640-h426/Art.Bus.promo.kate.Arthursmoss.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSucJeCXuWacj8K0rHBlGaLe6plfQMGLC_ZIMKsVHD_eZdQ4vP6AY3sUKFYOFj3bVmruHJC1mvMSWGCnOeRYX8uLXoP914cmtZZJZsbd0dC8kGwM2_LrEgEZ8jrOv_VNdE16qZJYvVbq9S/s2048/IMG_1308.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSucJeCXuWacj8K0rHBlGaLe6plfQMGLC_ZIMKsVHD_eZdQ4vP6AY3sUKFYOFj3bVmruHJC1mvMSWGCnOeRYX8uLXoP914cmtZZJZsbd0dC8kGwM2_LrEgEZ8jrOv_VNdE16qZJYvVbq9S/w300-h400/IMG_1308.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-72919938290517303792021-01-05T08:59:00.001+13:002021-01-05T08:59:24.141+13:00Spider-Mad<p> Today I found four new (to me) species of spider in my garden. Given that I have been here for 27 (twenty-seven!) years this coming March, and, especially in the las ten, have been actively looking for critters at least every week, it's rather amazing. I post them on iNaturalist and eventually, if it's possible, some kind entomologist will identify them, if I can't. Since I last blogged, I have had lots of (mainly critter-oriented) adventures, this can serve as an introduction. </p><p><a href="https://inaturalist.nz/observations/67561425">Here</a> is the first of this species I have ever seen - a Bird-dropping spider. I walked past it twice at first before I realised that bird-poo is rarely symmetrical. </p>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-84772897810848745112019-11-15T19:23:00.001+13:002019-11-15T19:23:37.757+13:00Yellow ThingsI am sometimes - rarely - overwhelmed by a desire to order and categorise things... even in messy places like my garden. Anyone else enjoy organising sometimes <i>just a little bit too much ? </i><br />
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<i><br /></i>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-49090706251342309432019-11-11T10:32:00.003+13:002019-11-11T10:35:57.435+13:00Do not ... <blockquote class="tr_bq">
<br /><br />Here's a choice. But very much N O T my own!<br />Having said that, it makes for a harder 'live'.<br /><br /><br />I'm reading 'Room With a View' and Lucy sings:<br />
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<br />"Look not thou on beauty’s charming,<br />Sit thou still when kings are arming,<br />Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,<br />Speak not when the people listens,<br />Stop thine ear against the singer,<br />From the red gold keep thy finger;<br />Vacant heart and hand and eye,<br />Easy live and quiet die."<br /><br />- Sir Walter Scott<br />from The Bride of Lammermoor.</blockquote>
It reminds me of Dylan Thomas : Do not Go Gentle ...<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
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Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-38952037240696257602019-11-07T18:13:00.002+13:002019-11-07T18:19:25.222+13:00Questions people asked me a long time ago. <div class="tr_bq">
I hardly want to admit how long ago it was that I invited bloggers to pose me questions about my art and artist life. I stumbled on them a few weeks ago ... </div>
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Recently I have gone through a 'I'm not a real artist' thing (quite common, I'll get over it) and at the moment call myself an illustrator. However, I might graduate onto 'Painter' and live there for a while. Art is such a weird stuff. Even artists can't agree what it is. But the questions of how I travel on this road were interesting to me to answer, so I thought maybe they would be to you too.<br />
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So without further ado, here are the questions, with my replies.<br />
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<a href="https://beefgravy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Yorkshire Pudding</a>: Some artists are partly motivated by the notion that by leaving something of worth behind they will achieve a measure of immortality. To what extent do you fall into this category?<br />
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Kate: My motivations (to make art) are thus: 5% gaining immortality through leaving something worthwhile behind. 15% the desire for fame and fortune in my own lifetime. 30% to help the natural (not man-made) part of the Earth by helping people explore what there is to treasure and care for. 30% to give myself pleasure by the learning and capturing process of subjects I am fascinated by, and 20% to give other people pleasure.<br />
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Yorkshire Pudding: Your art often seems driven by a passion for the natural world. What unvisited aspects of the natural world would you most like to capture?<br />
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Kate: All of them. Plus I would like to present the visited/ familiar aspects in an unfamiliar way, to counter any weariness or contempt that that familiarity my have caused. (Yes, to do all this I need a few more life-times!)<br />
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Yorkshire Pudding: Your portfolio appears people-less when some other artists might specialise in human faces and the human form. Why are there no people in your work?<br />
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Kate: Although much of my early work had few people (with the notable exception of my <a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/530ce4dde4b025032c0204b0/1422175917361-BNKV00TYFALSCW0C9QGL/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kD7BGcw-cRkOJlB2yn3q-EUUqsxRUqqbr1mOJYKfIPR7LoDQ9mXPOjoJoqy81S2I8N_N4V1vUb5AoIIIbLZhVYwL8IeDg6_3B-BRuF4nNrNcQkVuAT7tdErd0wQFEGFSnIz07n2s0zWCFxPmWy7SJBcPdu7fteyiZ9eyLJoM1q_fVFZgkeJxQz7wLUiFRPYE5g/Saemangeum-Tryptich.jpg?format=2500w" target="_blank">‘Saemangeum’ triptych</a>), it was mostly that my focus was and is on an Earth that is in danger of being irreparably damaged by people. To that end I felt that by eliminating people from my work, I was symbolically eliminating their affect on the natural world. Of course, humans were implied in the works, very strongly. They just didn't appear as images. I especially refer to the <a href="https://www.katherinesteeds.com/#/godwits/" target="_blank">Godwit Series.</a><br />
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However more recently with my <a href="https://delphine-angua.blogspot.com/search?q=bee+appreciation" target="_blank">International Bee Appreciation Society series</a>, I have intentionally installed people as the focal point, with the hope that viewers will associate themselves with the people in the paintings, and in this way, align themselves with the affection that the portraitees clearly have for the bees that are with them. (PS I have another International Bee Appreciation Society Meeting (show) planned, and am looking for people who would like to take part. Taking part means answering some questions about your interest in bees and having your <a href="https://www.nzbees.net/forums/topic/10374-the-bee-appreciation-society-agm/" target="_blank">portrait painted</a> (from a photograph) and shown in the gallery. Taking part also means you automatically become a member of the IBAS (International Bee Appreciation Society), and purchase of your portrait qualifies you for a beautiful illustrated Membership Certificate.)<br />
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Karl Von Frisch (below) is long gone, so couldn't get his certificate, sadly.<br />
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<a href="https://helsieshappenings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Helsie</a>: When did you start to paint?<br />
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Kate: Too early to recall Helsie. The first time I remember I was especially proud of something I painted was when I was about 11. I had been given a dip-pen that, for some strange reason I chose to use upside down, as it then gave the most marvellous spidery, even line. I remember deciding to draw something very tiny. I found a narcissus flower, a cherry blossom, and a broccoli gone to seed. I drew them very small on the front of three envelopes and then coloured them. I liked them so much I never sent the envelopes with letters. In fact I still have the drawings. They are about 2 - 3 cm tall each.<br />
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Helsie: What training have you received ?<br />
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Kate: When my children were small I did three years of weekly watercolour classes. Then a few years later when they were at high school, I went back to high school myself and really loved a (‘17-year-old’) year of painting and art history classes. I surprised myself and came top of my class. Then the next two years I went to the local polytechnic and studied full-time. I came top of the class both those years too.<br />
The next year I was encouraged to enrol in the university as a Post-grad student (- a massive jump, even though I had a Bachelors degree in science from years before) and I gained my PG Dip at the end of the year - the hardest year of my life.<br />
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Helsie: What made you take up this ( the painting of fish , birds etc ) type of work?<br />
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Kate: I was raised in a small house with a large garden, a horse paddock opposite, and a river behind, and always loved either being outdoors or drawing indoors. I spent a lot of time watching creatures or pulling plants to bits. I suppose I still find living things the most fascinating. Someone seeing me may have thought I was a lonely child but I was so happy and completely absorbed in my own world of ants or moths or grasses or stones.<br />
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Helsie: Is it the fine detail that captures your interest most?<br />
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Kate: I love working small. I like little creatures. I feel like it was a world that others hadn't noticed or weren’t interested in, so I could ‘own’ it and discover it for myself. I am a patient illustrator so enjoy making the small, precise marks of small subjects. If I was to paint a landscape my default setting would be to paint every blade of grass on every hill. <br />
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Yorkshire Pudding: I have thought of another intellectual question:-<br />
What’s your favourite colour?<br />
Kate: Green. Of course. <br />
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<a href="https://rhymeswithplague.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rhymes With Plague</a>: Who is (are) your favorite artist(s) and why?<br />
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Kate: I love and relate strongly to the approach of Leonardo da Vinci. I think I am an artistic scientist, rather than a scientific artist. For the same reason I really admire Dürer’s work. I dream of being able to capture a bird’s plumage the way he does in his painting of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_of_a_European_Roller#/media/File:Duerer_wing_of_a_blue_roller.jpg" target="_blank">blue roller wing</a>. But I admire many, many artists, too many to list, many that create work much more loose and free than mine, and on almost every subject, especially if there is an element of dry humour, of irony, in the work.<br />
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Rhymes With Plague: Do you prefer working indoors or outdoors? Why?<br />
Kate: Indoors because my paints (watercolours, usually) dry up too much outside and my paper flaps in the wind. I love my studio. It's a 10 sq metre lined 'shed' in my back garden, in amongst the trees. I love it out there as I can work undisturbed, which is very important to me. Time just flies out there.<br />
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Rhymes With Plague: Do you prefer morning or afternoon light? Why?<br />
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Kate: To work in, I prefer neither. For preference a south (non sunlit) set of windows for an even, unchanging light all day. This of course would be north-facing windows if I lived in the other part of the world. I designed my studio with all windows except one, facing south. The doors open to the sunshine, but I cover them when I am working. But to take photos I absolutely love the 'golden' hours just after dawn and just before dusk. The light then is wonderful and the shadows throw things into relief.<br />
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Rhymes With Plague: How early did you know you wanted to be a professional artist?<br />
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Kate: I actually wanted to be a scientist or a geographer. But I only wanted to do the drawings (plants, dissections, graphs, geometry, maps, diagrams, plants, fish, microscope views etc etc.) in each of these subjects! I was about 30 when I found I <i>had</i> to start expressing myself more freely in a visual way or part of me was going to die, and I really felt I wanted to make my <i>living</i> this way about three years ago when I signed up with Pikitia Postcards and now have four of my NZ birds available in Pikitia Postcard stands all over New Zealand. What a thrill.<br />
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Kate: Watercolour and coloured pencils. I like the control they give me if I need it. Next favourite is oils because that media is so permanent and versatile.<br />
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RWP: Which medium is your least favorite to work in? Why?<br />
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Kate: Pastels. Because it is so hard (and therefore expensive) to frame up a pastel work. Part of the creative me is very pragmatic you see!<br />
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<a href="https://galenote.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">GB</a>: Do you concentrate solely on the type of art in your last exhibition?<br />
I say this because I know - and love - some of your other works (particularly 'that' landscape) as well as the more detailed work on the Godwits etc. <br />
GB: I try to focus GB, but fail. There are so many things I want to paint.<br />
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<a href="https://www.jabberwock.co.uk/blog/" target="_blank">Jenny Woolf</a>: I would like to know what the first thing is that you can remember drawing and being pleased with.<br />
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Kate: My parents tell me the first recognisable drawing I did was not the usual face with dots for eyes and a line for a mouth, but a circle with six ‘arms’. When asked about it I said it was our village (Havelock North) roundabout, and named each of the roads. I do remember making a lot of maps when I was young. I loved how I could 'travel' in my mind along the roads, and I think they were the first drawings I made that had meaning for me. They opened up my mind to a world of creative possibilities.<br />
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<b><u>Thank you </u></b>to the most excellent questioners above! If you want to visit them, click on their names on their first question.<br />
If any readers to this blog have any more questions you'd like to ask me, please write them in the comments below and I'll do another post.<br />
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Shameless plug: <a href="http://katherinesteeds.com/" target="_blank">My website</a> is in the process of being updated with prices for my original works. And archival quality prints of many of the works you can see there will soon be available through my online shop. Enquiries and commissions always welcome to art@katherinesteeds.com<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plastic fire-bellied Toad. 2013. Acrylic on stretched canvas. NZ$2,700 + P&P<br />
A3 print on cotton rag museum quality natural paper: NZ$270 + P&P</td></tr>
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Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-74471081116561460712019-11-05T11:36:00.000+13:002019-11-05T11:37:48.549+13:00Ohope 2Nearly time to go home, but here's a few more pics from my stay at this gorgeous place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... and high tides ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">... to low tides.</td></tr>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-79873761830711442372019-10-30T20:59:00.001+13:002019-10-30T20:59:34.252+13:00At Ohope Beach - Pet-Sitting Again.Oh woe is me - such a horrible time I am having at Ohope Beach again. We walk on the beach twice a day, about a total of 5 km (3 miles) and the waves, sun, fresh air and blue skies ... oh boo hoo. Ghastly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's so bright it hurts my eyes so I have to wear sunglasses and a sun hat. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With her little legs Poppy gets tired after about three kms, so has to ride. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too hot so have to cool off in the water sometimes. Awful. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too many smells that get renewed each tide. Can't keep up! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So few people we have to be vigilant all the time to catch the ones with dogs. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distracting small creatures' burrows all over the place. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sometimes it's quite windy and our fur and hair get in our eyes. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When the sun goes down we can't see any more. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Between the road and the beach there are garish bright flowers </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horrible rare sharp shells ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We get so hungry we are </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">really</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> ready for tea time. </span></td></tr>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-89995239667065207582019-10-28T11:38:00.000+13:002019-10-28T11:38:19.737+13:00Sweden. Sandhammaren. Resuming my diary: 2.7.18. Sand ... beautiful white sand on the shores of the Baltic. We drove through a pleasant strip of pine reserve, and there was the popular white sands of Sandhammaren in the South of Sweden.<br />
A visual feast of white and blue with a few bodies of Homo sapians disporting themselves. <br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-59271010709087065152019-10-18T13:39:00.002+13:002019-10-18T13:39:26.902+13:00All kinds of things going on.I think in the last five years since I stopped blogging so regularly (I used to blog almost every day, my goodness, however did I do that!) I have started at least three times with the intention of catching you up, and myself at the same time, with all the adventures I have had. <br />
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A while ago I received a lovely email from <a href="https://rhymeswithplague.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">RWP</a> saying it was time I returned! Dear man, thank you for your loyalty, or whatever motivated you. So anyway, here I am again. Back in blogland. For a while, at least.<br />
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Here in New Zealand it is late spring. The wisteria that drapes itself over my verandah is almost over its main flush of mauve sweet-scented flowering, and the pin oak, always the last tree in the garden to leaf, is tinged with yellowy-lime uncurling tender tips...<br />
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... while the huge old rhodo is in full-throated pinkness behind my studio, and trying to distract me in my painting by thrusting itself in the windows too. </div>
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I have a number of commissions on the go. One for <a href="http://scriptorsenex.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">CJ</a>, a bunch of cherries, is waiting for cherry season, (as am I! One of my favourite fruits - yum) and two others for <a href="https://galenote.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">GB</a> are going to be completed when I go soon to Ohope Beach next (soon GB!) to do my usual dog-sitting for a Scottish Kiwi couple (who since I have now known for so many years I count as dear friends).</div>
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Next year I have another trip to the UK, including the Midlands and, for the first time, Yorkshire, so watch out <a href="https://retirementrocksblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Ian</a> and <a href="http://beefgravy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">YP and Shirley</a>! I am then farm-sitting in Suffolk, so that will be fun! And then it will be off to Sweden to visit my son, daughter-in-law and meet my dear little newest grandchild Ian for the first time.</div>
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Afterwards: an adventure! My cousin Thea, daughter Natalie and I are looking for a good 5-day walk in August (in Europe) - all ideas welcomed! Thinking at this stage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_Forest" target="_blank">ancient forest in Poland</a>. Anyone know anything about this place? Any other ideas? Not too hot please.</div>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-17126799127280528452018-11-18T21:32:00.002+13:002018-11-18T21:41:16.368+13:00Botanical Paintings in Progress.Hello everyone. Many apologies for my month's absence from your comment box and blogging bin, but I have been busy painting. I am now proud to announce (Ta dahhhh!) my participation in the group show 'South Seas Botanical' which opened a few days ago. Those of you in <a href="http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/assets/Lions-Tour/Aotearoa.mp3" target="_blank">Aotearoa</a> New Zealand are of course warmly invited to see the show at the Zeus Gallery, Tauranga. Those that are not currently in NZ, here are some views of my works in progress (w.i.p). Next week I will post some views of the completed work on the gallery walls, and of the other three exhibitors' works too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The green moth is the 'puriri m<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">oth' Aenetus virescens, the larvae of which burrow </span></span><br />
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Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-28634547622385112432018-10-12T10:47:00.002+13:002018-10-12T10:47:39.477+13:00Extincted. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/274025105" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-86491648886309409662018-10-06T09:51:00.000+13:002018-10-06T09:54:14.326+13:00Fish!<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At lunchtime on day one of my <a href="http://www.amazonasphoto.com/biography" target="_blank">Andersen</a> South Sweden Tour I again encountered Swedish Fish. I have capitalised that because although there was an amazing selection at the <a href="https://delphine-angua.blogspot.com/2018/09/gothenburg.html" target="_blank">Fish Church</a> in Gothenburg, the fish shop and cafe at Kåseberga (Kåseberga Fisk AB) had a very good selection too. Although my memory was indubitably influenced by my appetite (the fried herring was wonderful) and the fact that I have more photos of this shop. Whichsoever, feast your eyes on this!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bank to the right where I saw only a few poppies, is usually smothered in them!<br />
It's just too hot and dry this year so they have finished flowering.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It turned out the snake was rubber and did a very good albeit passive job of being a cafe-fish-meal-scavenging-gull deterrent.</span>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-26954329018693729162018-10-05T11:11:00.002+13:002018-10-05T11:13:04.213+13:00InktoberIt is that time of year when some people post (usually on social media like Instagram and Facebook) a quick ink sketch or drawing each day, rising to the challenge of "INKTOBER".<br />
I have begun, but as I am very busy with botanical painting too, I may or may not adhere rigidly to the one 'every single day' thing.<br />
I thought you might like to see the ones I have done so far. They will eventually be available as printed cards with envelopes once I've given them some colour. And got my Etsy shop up and running.<br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-15814300814594223212018-10-04T01:45:00.000+13:002018-10-04T01:45:01.349+13:00Ales Stenar (Ale's Stones), South Sweden You climb the hill from the small harbour and there they are: A collection of ancient stones in a rough ellipse or boat-shape, most higher than a human, and of course much broader. They sit on top of the hill, on a wonderful site overlooking the sea on two sides. A great place for a fort, or a nice expensive house. The people wander between them, taking photos, the kids run around with all that energy somehow revived from the hot walk up the track, and I try and imagine what happened here so many thousands of years ago. There is a flat stone embedded in the ground, near the prow or bow. Was it a place of sacrifice? Homage? Or maybe the whole was just a nice meeting place for a picnic, as some people are using it today. Was it once covered with beams and roof? It would be rather windy and cold up here sometimes. Did they sing? Chant? Wear special clothes?<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">I'm getting lunchtime-ish however, and thirsty so we walk back down the hill to the wee harbour and instead of reading the information board, I just photograph it. I want to have my own ideas of Ale's Stones for a little while longer yet before I find out what others have discovered. They feel more like <i>my</i> special personal archeological discovery, that way. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">There are some poppies growing on a bank. I love them against the grass and blue sky. </span></div>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-9170855831476404282018-10-02T22:21:00.000+13:002018-10-04T15:39:51.092+13:00Roy Andersen<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roy Andersen. From this article: https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2017-10-25/fotografen-som-gillar-exotiska-kryp</td></tr>
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It's time to introduce my friend and guide in South Sweden.<br />
Roy Andersen, as I mentioned in an earlier post, is also an insect photographer but his work takes him frequently on amazing adventures to countries like the Amazon basin and other parts of South America. In the last two years since I met him in the jungle of Costa Rica, he has been to Jordon, and twice to Cambodia.<br />
He thinks it's a good trip if he can add one or two more images to his collection. Although he may take thousands to get even one he is happy with.<br />
You can see some of his lovely captures at this link <a href="http://www.fotografer.n.nu/roy-andersen" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
And his website is <a href="http://amazonasphoto.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Our next stop was to see some of his photographs in an art gallery called <a href="https://www.gallerifagel.com/" target="_blank">Galleri Fagel</a> (Gallery Bird).<br />
They looked very interesting and exciting and I was very impressed with them and, indeed the whole gallery.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roy's work at another exhibition. The clarity of the photos is excellent. To get a close-up look of Roy Andersen's work, please check out the links above.</td></tr>
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Next stop: The wonderful Ales Stones 'stone ship' at Löderup.</div>
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-49705172949070199412018-10-01T11:23:00.000+13:002018-10-01T11:23:05.817+13:00Trelleborg, South Sweden.Well, here I am at the very southernmost point of Sweden. Looking inland to what new things might be visited this afternoon. Trelleborg was, in days gone long by, a very important fishing town. The herring shoals were so numerous you could fish for them with nets from the beach!<br />
Now it's an important ferry terminal.<br />
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Time for another walk. Hmmm, should I have maybe worn boots instead of sandals?<br />
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Shall we have something cool before we get back in the car?<br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-71228800567620644172018-09-28T13:13:00.000+12:002018-09-28T13:13:27.570+12:00A Swedish Recycling Depot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Near Malmö, we popped in to see what the Swedes do with their rubbish. I took photos mostly for my daughter, as she and I are very interested in sustainable living, and, preferably, ZERO waste generation.<br />
I don't know the words, but you can see how many different recycling categories there are. <br />
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It was appropriate that afterwards, back on the road again, the next photo I took was a wind generator. Roy said the noise can be quite bothersome for people who have to live nearby. Some liken it to a Chinese water torture or a dripping tap - whoosh ... whoosh ... whoosh ... whoosh ... all day, every day and all night too.<br />
However to just see them as one <strike>whooshes</strike> silently drives past in a car, I think they are rather stunning. Especially against the bright blue Swedish sky. Incidentally, someone told me that's where the flag comes from - the yellow wheat and the <span style="font-family: inherit;">blue sky. Makes sense. Except wiki doesn't mention this but tells me b<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lue and yellow have been used as Swedish colours at least since </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_III_of_Sweden" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Magnus III of Sweden">King Magnus III's</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> royal coat of arms of 1275. Perhaps King Magnus was inspired by the blue sky and the yellow wheat.</span></span><br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-72351282468844313682018-09-26T22:09:00.001+12:002018-09-27T09:06:53.856+12:00Vikhög, Sweden.Also on the coast, only about *5 km (3 miles) from Barsebäckshamn, is the even smaller wee fishing village of Vikhög. There is a sheltered tiny marina, and a few houses (about 100 residents), and a walk along the coast. I loved the wildflowers. I could live there!<br />
Oh, if anyone knows the names of any of these plants below, even a guess, I'd be grateful.<br />
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* To drive it is closer to 12 km, as the road goes inland and then back out to the coast again.<br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-18990131143081726752018-09-25T18:28:00.000+12:002018-09-25T18:28:06.990+12:00The Making of an 'Earthbag' Bedroom.My post about the passage grave in Skåne made me think about how it might be possible to build a dwelling in a similar way - by using the materials to be had around. There are no stones in this area, but plenty of dirt... add plastic (which I don't really like, but let's forget that bit for the moment) and you have: A new little house! <br />
This construction journey video is just wonderful on many levels, not least that of the relationships strengthened.<br />
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<iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n_yAY1Ybfmk?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-32010899273555423322018-09-24T20:53:00.000+12:002018-09-24T20:56:59.107+12:00Barsebäckshamn<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's only three km (about 2 miles) from Gillhög (the ancient passage grave) to <span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; text-align: center;">Barsebäckshamn, a little fishing village on the south(ish) Swedish coast that looks straight out towards Denmark and Copenhagen. A village has been here since the 1400's, and it was once a very busy fishing port. Now it is mostly recreational fishing. There's a long pier made of granite and if you are lucky, you'll be there when the hollyhocks are showing themselves off to mutual advantage against the little fishermen's houses. I love the way the windows are at just the right height to look straight in. In another life I bought one and set my long trestle table just inside and painted all day with the windows wide open in summer, so people passing could look at my progress and talk to me as I worked. </span></span><br />
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Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-34716508047788366792018-09-22T10:06:00.000+12:002018-09-22T10:06:07.880+12:00Gillhög Passage Grave, Skåne, Sweden.In an area of the flat wheat-growing Skäne region, there is a small gravel road, and at the end of it, a smallish mound. You notice this as you approach, the rest of the land being so flat, but it could almost disappear if the area were forested. Also call<span style="font-family: inherit;">e<span style="font-family: inherit;">d </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hofterupsdösen (for the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hofterup locality), Gillhöp is a small man-made tomb/ cave which is accessed by a narrow low six metre (6 yard) passage. It was constructed of stones, large ones being laid for the walls and even on the top for the roof. I have seen these kinds of graves in England too. This one is likely to be about four thousand years old. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are usually </span>communal<span style="font-family: inherit;"> graves, and are used over and over again, sometimes over considerable time spans, even hundreds of years. Sometimes when they are opened, it is discovered that the bones have been sorted into types, so the individuals they belonged to are 'lost' and muddled up. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This one had few flint tools, some beads made of amber, and some pieces of broken pottery along with the bones.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tomorrow: Next stop - the little coastal village of <span style="text-align: center;">Barsebäckshamn.</span></span><br />
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<br />Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12453125929159161583noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8519638191408360845.post-15162141091798432942018-09-21T21:00:00.000+12:002018-09-21T21:00:31.962+12:00South Sweden.When I was in Costa Rica two years ago I met an interesting man who was, like me, also photographing insects. <br />
However, unlike me, his was a life-long passion which has taken him to many places, and especially and repeatedly, the Amazon basin. He happened to be a Swede, and as we had been communicating occasionally, I took him up on his offer to stay a few days. We had a busy two days exploring some of the south of Sweden.<br />
But first, let me show you the amazing 'sandwich' that was waiting for me when I first arrived off the train, tired and hungry, at his place.<br />
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Isn't that the most <i>beautiful sandwich</i> in the <i>world</i>? It was cold and so fresh! </div>
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The skies in the south of Sweden were rather wonderful too... They had an amazing and remarkable luminosity I have only seen once in my life before (in Taranaki, New Zealand). </div>
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This was the next day on our way to a stone-age burial chamber. I will post about that tomorrow.</div>
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