
“Whatever our differences in culture or external appearances, there is more that unites us than divides us.”
Halima Cassell
Continue reading “Geometry as Muse: Halima Cassell’s Patterned Stoneware”

Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life

“Whatever our differences in culture or external appearances, there is more that unites us than divides us.”
Halima Cassell
Continue reading “Geometry as Muse: Halima Cassell’s Patterned Stoneware”

Brian has kindly been hosting this week’s Lens-Artists’ challenge from his home in the Australian bush and I’ve enjoyed seeing the submissions. His topic is inspired by, in his words, the ‘fragmentation around the world, a disconnect. But we have always been made of pieces’.
I’m (largely) sharing fragments put back together in different forms, starting with a detail from a decorative drainage sump in last year’s ingenious Wilde Weelde exhibit at Floriade ’22. Continue reading “The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Fragments”

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”


One of the most eye-catching bits of branding I’ve seen is on the corner of Fifth Street and North Lamar Boulevard, in Austin, Texas. Continue reading “ATX Public Art, Austin Texas”