This time last year I got my first piece of Le Creuset Marseilles Blue and a Lucy Kirk royal blue sweatshirt. This blue is definitely my favourite colour on earth.
"Westerners have a history of undervaluing all things blue... For the Romans, in particular, blue was associated with barbarism: writers from the period mention that Celtic soldiers dyed their bodies blue, and Pliny accused women of doing the same before participating in orgies." - Kassia St Clair, The Secret Life of Colour
"In 1957, artist Yves Klein debuted a series of paintings in Milan. Each featured the same intense, ultramarine shade, a colour he described as 'a blue in itself, disengaged from all functional justification.' International Klein Blue as Klein called it, was created by suspending pure pigment in synthetic resin, a process he later patented , and which ensured the dye retained its brilliance on canvas. For Klein, IK Blue represented a sense of boundlessness and pure space; and he worked almost exclusively in the colour until his death in 1961." Create Review, July 2014
"She told me...she carries a blue stone with her into church , and kisses it - that she can only wear blue because other colours scorch her skin... Is she ill? She was always a little silly I suppose but cleverly so - it was as if she'd chosen to be silly because it's a characteristic so often expected of women that it's almost admired." The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
"Stella Ransome lay on a white couch between two open windows hung with blue curtains. She wore a dark brown dressing gown and blue slippers and was decked with turquoise beads. On her hands were gimcrack rings, and on every windowsill blue glass bottles glinted: there were sherry bottles and poison bottles and little flagons for scent, shards of glass gathered from gutters and opaque nuggets tossed up by the tide. Neatly laid out on tables and chairs were items ordered by depth or pallor of pigment; bottle-tops and buttons, silk scraps and folded sheets of paper, feathers and stones, and all of them blue." The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
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17 January 2020
10 January 2020
Pastel and glass
4 January 2020
Ramsgate Dream Home
Every time I visit the seaside I get dissatisfied with our little Victorian Terrace House (that we are desperately trying to pay off) and the very nice and adequate life we are trying to build in Croydon.
Suddenly I want old family name and history and a seaside townhouse with four guest bedrooms and a range stove with sea views that I can do bad paintings of.
This is exactly the kind of place I am talking about and I found it as we were on the train back from the seaside last spring.
Suddenly I want old family name and history and a seaside townhouse with four guest bedrooms and a range stove with sea views that I can do bad paintings of.
This is exactly the kind of place I am talking about and I found it as we were on the train back from the seaside last spring.
29 December 2019
December 2019 Inspiration Dump
Rough and ready screenshot from my inspiration album. This month has been about pastel, goths, Ruth Negga and short fringes.
I had a short fringe cut in recently and am teaching my boyfriend how to trim it for me. I also just got back onto ASOS for the first time in years to order an oversized lack denim jacket that I'll add dome kind of massive patch to, and a celestial print dress... let's hope they look ok!
I had a short fringe cut in recently and am teaching my boyfriend how to trim it for me. I also just got back onto ASOS for the first time in years to order an oversized lack denim jacket that I'll add dome kind of massive patch to, and a celestial print dress... let's hope they look ok!
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