It’s standard practice to cut down living trees and make them into painted fences or decorated trinket boxes, but rare to leave a dead tree standing and turn it into sculpture. Continue reading “Keeping Fondren Funky: Tree Art by Bill Taylor”
Stile and Gate by Frank Triggs
At first or even second sight, you might not see anything odd about the stile at Broomhill Sculpture Garden. Continue reading “Stile and Gate by Frank Triggs”
PPAC: Snowmen
Do snowmen count as art? Some snow has fallen over the last couple of days but not as much as elsewhere and not nearly enough for us to get creative with, so my pictures are from previous years. Continue reading “PPAC: Snowmen”
Where Was I?
It’s the season for quizzes. Half of these pictures were taken in Mississippi and half in England. Â Can you guess which is which? Continue reading “Where Was I?”
Street Art For Three Photography Challenges
There are so many fun challenges at the moment that we bloggers are spoilt for choice. I used to go by the rule one post, one challenge, but the times they are a-changin’ and I’m going to follow the trend by hopping on several. First, I’m sharing two kinda cuties for Becky’s PastSquares – a tiger tyre planter with strawberries from Darwen and a robin from Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Continue reading “Street Art For Three Photography Challenges”
Fun in a Fountain: The Muses by Craig Mitchell Smith
For a few months, The Muses gleamed in the water feature at Missouri Botanical Garden as part of Craig Mitchell Smith’s Garden and Glass exhibition. The water feature is a circle of  jets of water that shoot up from the ground, reach the extent of their energy, and bubble back down. Continue reading “Fun in a Fountain: The Muses by Craig Mitchell Smith”
Ricardo Cat by Niki de Saint-Phalle
Several of these pictures show abstract-seeming details of a monumental sculpture packed with colourful gleams and glints. Continue reading “Ricardo Cat by Niki de Saint-Phalle”
Susan Rushton 