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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: November 2012
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Sunday, 25 November 2012. I’ve been thinking about my blog title, taking a closer look,. And why I’m writing it. On a practical level it’s helped me take more note of what I’m doing. By writing about it and recording it in a semi-public way I’ve made myself a record, which is becoming useful for the projects I’ve been writing about. And taking a close look at the natural world is something that is always worthwhile, which takes me to my nasty fly photo. I can’t ...
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: September 2012
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Tuesday, 18 September 2012. Taking a closer look at two master wood engravers. The Splinter Group had an outing on Friday, to see the exhibition of wood engravings by Eric Ravilious at Aberdeen Art Gallery. We also were shown their collection of work by Claire Leighton, another consummate wood engraver who worked in the 1930s. Ravilious’ work was typical Ravilious, decorative, full of mark making, playful. Work of many designers and illustrators today. Unlike Raviliou...
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: October 2012
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Tuesday, 30 October 2012. Patchwork tales at Moulin Hall. Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Tell a Story Day. Wednesday, 10 October 2012. Buoyed up by another successful outing at Fortingall Art the Splinter Group is branching out again. We are going to be in a ‘pop-up shop’ in Dunkeld for three weeks between the 10th and 27th October. Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Tuesday, 2 October 2012. Patchwork Stories, Patchwork Names. Names on the quilt. There is a se...
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: August 2013
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 26 August 2013. I’ve been inspired by how the Crannog people on Loch Tay lived what seemed like quite a decent life 2,500 years ago, even in what was often a tough and isolated place, relatively poor in materials like metals or clay. One of the most basic things they needed was string and rope. And I was reading Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s wonderful book ‘ Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years. So I’ve been making grass string, and string from nettles and ...
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: May 2013
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 13 May 2013. How to make a bag with a knife. Since I’ve been at the Scottish Crannog Centre I’ve been doing some dabbling in Iron Age technology. Not just Iron Age technology, some of it is Stone Age especially making holes in stones. Oakbank Crannog, the underwater original, has produced quite a few stones with holes. It’s not clear what they were all used for but some of them were spindle whorls, the weight at the bottom of a drop spindle. It’s not the...
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: The River on Show
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 29 July 2013. The River on Show. Fortingall Art is on the go this week, with our Splinter Group River project all hung in its little alcove in the Molteno Hall. It’s probably our most ambitious and diverse show there to date. The River theme has proved a real inspiration. It brought out all our individual styles and allowed us to broaden out our printmaking too. And Linda Farquharson showed her naked lady lying in the landscape and smothered in flowers.
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: Chips off the block
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 20 January 2014. Chips off the block. My Splinter wood engraving group, with friends are exhibiting in the Line Gallery in Linlithgow in February. We have the whole gallery, which takes some filling with wood engravings so we will have a few other printmaking media on display too, mostly Lino, although I have been experimenting with. The exhibition runs at the Line from the 25th January to 18th February 2014. Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look.
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: August 2012
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Friday, 24 August 2012. A homecoming for the patchwork quilt. We camped at Balranald while we were on North Uist and I took the chance to explore the machair and take a closer look at the wildlife. The flowers were past their best but there were still plenty around for insects, including some wind-tattered butterflies. This bumblebee was a bit more robust and not quite so battered looking. It's a Great Yellow,. Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 6 August 2012.
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look: July 2013
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Ruth Atkinson: taking a closer look. Monday, 29 July 2013. The River on Show. Fortingall Art is on the go this week, with our Splinter Group River project all hung in its little alcove in the Molteno Hall. It’s probably our most ambitious and diverse show there to date. The River theme has proved a real inspiration. It brought out all our individual styles and allowed us to broaden out our printmaking too. And Linda Farquharson showed her naked lady lying in the landscape and smothered in flowers. My mai...
