Sleeps and Leaps: Progress of an Etching
I've been working on this etching for some months. It was started in the white heat of an MA exhibition deadline in May, and got to an...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 22, 20191 min read
The fleeting glimpse
I saw a small and beautiful valley from the window of the Corris-Aber bus - I had just time to register a stream, cushions of moss, a...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 21, 20191 min read
The watery veins of the moor
The moor is veined with many rills. They are narrow but deep. Even in midwinter their weeds glow emerald green. You can hear them flowing...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 20, 20192 min read
Picasso's nose-grease
Here's a work in progress...Chapel Perilous working name, etching 15 x 18cm. Loosely based around an old engraving of a human heart with...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 19, 20191 min read
Women who walk: Worm moon
20th March 2019: the second full moon walk. I walked in the daylight this time, so again no moon-sighting for me! Instead I looked for...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 18, 20191 min read
First blossom
The blackthorn trees stir first. The tiny greenish buds appear amidst the beards of lichen and green moss, then the full blossom, then...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Women who walk by the light of the moon
19th February saw my first collaborative meeting with the three other Women who Walk. Every full moon we go for a walk at the same time,...
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Flora McLachlan
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Havens
Two of the sparks which fired up my new work...Shepherd's Haven by Joseph Webb and a small etching by Holman Hunt. I saw the Webb etching...
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Flora McLachlan
Feb 26, 20191 min read
Unicorns in the field
This is the view from my studio window, this particular morning visited by unicorns! A friend of mine remarked that now I was doing an MA...
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Flora McLachlan
Feb 26, 20191 min read
A tour of the workshop
I tried to make a short video tour of my workshop. I found it unexpectedly hard to do. It looked as if I had strapped my phone to the...
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Flora McLachlan
Feb 26, 20192 min read
Print REbels, Aberystwyth
It is wonderful to see these incredible prints from the collection of Edward Twohig RE displayed at Aberystwyth School of Art. While...
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