Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Fiona McLees
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The wonderfully surreal yew trees at St Mary’s Painswick. Walking through the closely touching pairs is quite disorienting and maze-like, especially in the bright summer sun, as eyes adjust from bright light to deep shade and the secret internal structures beneath the canopies.
Disgrace even by standards of Cardiff University
It's fundamental violation of trust: the Salisbury Collection is a national possession of rare books, not an institutional asset to be discarded at whim
The new Welsh Govt must intervene at Cardiff
nation.cymru/news/fears-f...
Here’s the piper, in fuller context, presiding over the allotments, a headless Arcadian spirit
“Rollins was aware of his place as the last surviving giant of the era of jazz led by Parker, Monk and Coltrane.
"I'm the last guy but in a way I'm not, because when I'm gone my music is going to be here," he told PBS in 2011. "We're all still here, we're all still here."”
An object (a coral?) from the Graham Sutherland archive at Amgueddfa Cymru; a bleached, branched form with the aesthetic appeal of a scholar’s rock. Fingers reaching upwards and holes looping through and through, glimpses of a roughened osseous interior where the smooth surface has been breached.
Church kneeler featuring the lychgate to St Mary’s, Painswick, and former caretaker Bertha Barnfield. Bertha & her mother were caretakers of the church and devoted 60 years of service in total. The church has 300 kneelers made in the mid 1980s, a huge labour of many hours by women of the parish.
Partial British Telecom piper appearing on this allotment greenhouse, forever leaping and no longer piping
This is a bit of a niche one, but we need all the help we can get at the moment
The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.
Martin Shipton Staff and students at Cardiff University have launched a petition aimed at stopping changes to the Arts and Social Sciences Library they fear could lead to the loss of thousands of rare...
Dear current patrons, past patrons, and future patrons of Arts and Social Sciences Library (ASSL) at Cardiff University.
On Friday 17th of May, library staff of the ASSL were informed by University Li...
Their ochres are available to buy online but truly I recommend visiting, we had a brilliant tour led by freeminer Jonathan Wright who mines & processes the ochres, but also holds an absurd amount of knowledge about the mines that covers history, archaeology, natural history, geology, palaeontology…
