I’m delighted that my poem After the Dreams of Meret Oppenheim has been published in the 2023 issue of DeLuge Journal. Regular features of this annual publication are oneiric delvings and asemic writing, two passions of mine. deLuge is an online literary and arts journal devoted to the wealth of creativity that arises from dreams … More DeLuge Journal
A painting by Francis Richards: Metamorphosis, 1967 was the inspiration for three of the works commissioned for a new exhibition, On Your Face x Glynn Vivian: Queer Reflections that introduces queer art and identities in traditionally heteronormative spaces. Each member of the On Your Face collective selected artworks from Glynn Vivian that they had a … More Transformations
The brief for the Ancestree project at Wales Millennium Centre was very open and inclusive. We asked visitors to write on the leaf templates, or just on paper about their favourite things, family, or nature. Some stayed for longer, but most were families enjoying half term, passing through on their way around Cardiff Bay. Finished … More Ancestree Stories
One participant of the Friday Creative Wellbeing group is a wonderful surrealist poet in the style of Gisèle Prassinos. From one of her poems, ‘Reasoning Remains a Wealth‘, everyone has chosen a line that resonates with them, and created their own print or artwork, taking inspiration from the words of the poem. We are always discovering … More Structure for a Poem
I’m exhibiting a digital photo portrait ‘Matilda’ from my Mothers series of a remarkable woman in this exhibition, accompanied by a poem, ‘Goddess – My Mother with Parkinson’s who dreams vividly at night’, by Toni-Ann La-Crette.
Two interesting exhibitions in London recently: Hilma Af Klint at the Serpentine Galleries and Georgiana Houghton at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Hilma Af Klint (1862–1944), of Sweden was creating abstract works about five years before Kandinsky. Through her work with the group “The Five,” af Klint created experimental automatic drawing as early as 1896, … More The First Abstractionists
Sarah J Featherstone 