DappledSky is an arty, crafty, creative site by little ol’ me – Deborah Nicklin. DappledSky is a place where I hope to take you along on some special studio and gallery visits. It gives a chance for some Q+A and generally shows you things that will hopefully captivate you as much as they do me.
Artists and makers have wild imaginations filled with wonderful creations, sometimes inspired by necessity and sometimes frivolity. It’s fascinating how they can turn the ‘everyday’ into the ‘wonderful’. Their strange alchemy takes place in hidden away studios – sometimes they are in old mills or factories, garages, sheds, back bedrooms, junk rooms and even on kitchen tables. These are hidden worlds that are the sanctum of the creative mind. Let’s go in search of hidden worlds together …
DappledSky will report back from these mysterious worlds, with a few photos, a chat over a cuppa and a quick weather report.
Knock Knock … any one at home? …. oooooo Hello, one sugar please!
just came across your blog via Simply Staffordshire – looks lovely and brought this to mind:
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)
GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
How beautiful – thank you so much for the kind words.
Thank you also for letting me know that Simply Staffordshire has happened upon Dappled Sky – that’s great.
Have a lovely day ‘M North’