Paper Ponderings
FIONA DEMPSTER - MAKER WITH WORDS
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Thursday Thoughts...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
The light and the dark
The weather has turned towards winter. It has clearly decided to leave thoughts of summer behind and instead, make us all consider again the wintering, the closing down, the quietening.
The sun isn't actually rising where we are until almost 8am now, yet we still get up to go walking around 6.30am, which is relatively dark but with the sky beginning to lighten.
Here are some photos from around 7am during the week. I love the moodiness and the light and the shadows.
Mid afternoon sky on a wander to Sandside.
And then today. We slept in and went walking about 7.30am and were rewarded with the soft pink sky.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
The way of things here - this and that
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Thursday Thoughts...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
A train trip, Narratives and the sky
For a few days last week Barry and I hit the train tracks and went on a wee adventure. My Dad had recommended the train trip from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh and really thought we should do it sometime. And finally, we got around to doing it.
We caught the train from Thurso in the North to Dingwall and stayed overnight there. On Thursday morning we wandered around Dingwall and found some lovely shops and food. On Thursday afternoon we caught the train across to the Kyle of Lochalsh.
At first we thought, oh yes, this is quite nice, but we weren't stunned. Gradually the high mountains appeared and rivers and some waterfalls, so it was getting interesting and quite lovely.
And then the sights came thick and fast. You know when you are always tapping somebody's shoulder or arm saying - oh look at that! Yep, I was glued to the windows by then.
The day was sunny and still, so we absolutely had the best of it.
On Friday morning, we had to catch the early train as our mid morning train had been cancelled. That meant it was deepest dark at 5am when we rose, and still deeply dark by 6am when the train left, and still deep dark for about another hour or so, so we never saw the magnificent part of the trip again!
Waiting at the train station.
As one exhibition ends, another one opens on the other side of the world. In our town of Maleny - there are 27 fabulous artists' books on show until 20 October. My book "Lost for Words" is part of it and tells the story in its own quiet way of how it feels to lose one's words...
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Farewell Hame, and welcome...
On Saturday, my exhibition Hame closed. Late in the afternoon, Barry and I headed down to dismantle the show and pack the pieces up.
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a show comes down, after the time it takes to make the work and set it up!
Rolling up the scrolls and keeping them with their rusty tins.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Thursday Thoughts...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Week 4 book, and beginning to think of new ones
Even tho the exhibition is going to be on show for another week, I decided to stick with my original plan to have 4 weeks of postcards and stitch them into a book at the end of each week. So this week, all four books will be on show at the exhibition.
Last week's question was "To make a home in a new place I would..." and I quite liked the open-ended nature of it. I felt it left it wide open for folk to write pretty much all sorts.
There are fewer people around in the Highlands now that Autumn has well and truly been ushered in; many tourists have gone; and the season is edging closer to close, so I was pretty happy to still get 20 postcards completed.
I love how they look displayed together on the herring barrel.