Inspire 52 - Week 33. Edinburgh Festival, Fairy Tales and Windows

Lots has been changing last week marked the end of something and this week marks the beginning of something new, and it started with a trip to The Edinburgh Festival. I was invited by House of Fairy Tales, and thought 'Hey, why not', so I popped on a plane and went.

A lot is going on at the moment I can hardly keep up with myself, so do excuse me for lack of attention I have been paying to the blogs recently ... yep last week you only got pictures! Lots of exciting stuff is going on and I am doing so much creatively it is hard to know which thing to choose each week for the Inspire 52 project. I think I can safely say that doing this project has initiated a whole wave of intense creativity into my life which is amazing. I feel so lucky to be living my dream quite frankly, and indeed the journey is far from over!

So without further a do this blog will be in 2 parts.
Part 1. A few pictures to describe what happened in a snap shot with my visit to the Edinburgh Festival and with House of Fairy Tales
Part 2. My inspiration.

Part 1. Inking it up at the Hoft Examiner - Edinburgh Festival 2012

 

 

Thanks to everyone at House of Fairy Tales for welcoming me ... I had a great time and it was great to work with you guys and the kids.

Article to be published soon in the 2nd edition of The HoFT Examiner playper - Prof. Ink's trip to Edinburgh.


Part 2. So what inspired me in Edinburgh?
The city was amazing and indeed an inspiring place. What jumped out visually at me was the windows. I have only done one illustration so far, but I have a feeling these will be appearing again somewhere along the line.


Windows

Looking through the glass as the winds divide,
A spectacle below, a burning fire inside.
As dancers adorn the streets of cobble stone steps
The waiters are inside, waiting on bets.
But who will win the ticketed affair?
Who will pass by without a care?
Who will stop and glance up to view,
The window up there with the reflection of you?

by Hazel Evans August 2012

 

I think I will be going back to Scotland, this was a first time for me and will not be the last ... I quite fancy getting the Highland fling on and getting on up into the mountains for a good old hike.

Inspire 52 - Week 16. Three Little Pigs

My inspiration this week has come from a sense of creating space. Space in the mind through rest, space in the body through yoga and space in the heart with new friends. Due to certain recent happenings I am finding myself in what feels like an exciting state of transition. I feel like I am in my little white boat rowing downstream and, for once, taking the time to breathe a few deep breaths and enjoy the scenery whilst basking in the light.

Be true to yourself

This weekend I was on the quest for building parts of my upcoming exhibition, Adventures into The Monochronium' and I came accross a piggy. It soon occurred to me that he was going to join me on my journey, but he was fragile and made of glass and was going to need looking after.

The glass pig has a long journey to make. He had come from the Paper Forset and his journey was not even half finished, ahead of him were The Black Ink Mountains. He did not know who he would meet along the way ...

Into the depths and far beyond

A place you never told me I could go on,

This path wove a treadmill beneath my feet,

And the words of the forest began to speak.

'Dance with us, we'll show you the way'.

Over the mountains and far away...

Find out more and experience the journey of the Glass Pig, The Paper Forest and The Black Ink Mountains in the new phase of my art work at my upcoming exhibition

Adventures into The Monochronium

26th May - 7th July

As part of Dorset Art Weeks 2012

In association with Lighthouse, centre for the arts, Poole.

This is what I started off by writng ... but between that moment and this ... it no longer seemed apropriate to continue a rambling ramble of words, so rather that deleate all those words that began this inspire I thought I would just paste them into a sub text. An unedited and unfinished beginning, that is now the end.

Well what a week I have had ... without being too personal and writing my entire life for the world to read ... I can say that this week has been quite a turn around for me. It started by being signed off by the doctor on Monday morning ... under strict orders for rest.

She ran down the hallway shouting "Rest! Rest!!! What is this!?! But I have art to make, festivals to programme and an exhibition to prepare! I have no time for rest doctor!!"

It didn't quite happen like that ... but I was wondering how on earth I would be able to rest as I like to think of myself as a 24/7 kind gal, but apparently this is not very good for the body! Hence, I guess, ending up with re-uccuring bronchitus! Yeah ... not great!! Anyhow, I am at the end of the week and I can safely say that this 'rest' melarky is actually pretty enjoyable!

Lovely new yogi friends of mine have inspired me into a better way of life in order to bring balance into everyday living ... I'm getting there, however I think these next 6 weeks are going to be pretty full on in order to launch all the projects that I have been working on for the last six months... so we'll see.

So what has all this go to do with this weeks Inpsire? and where do the Three Little Pigs come into it all? Well bare with me as it will all become clear very soon...