Behjat Omer | Dappled Sky

It’s here folks . The New Year … After all the holiday festivities and then the lull that you feel after hibernating and stocking-up on all that food, like a hamster, it’s time to take a deep breath and get creative – lets shine! It’s your year to be brilliant. New ideas, fresh approaches, new work and new connections.

Think big!

I had to share this youtube find (courtesy of Facebook friend Frances Massey, a local artist behind the lovely Petals and Berries) Great internet find Fran … how lovely, a large doodling balloon!

Such fun, such fun! Why start small – take some big steps and feel free. OK we can’t all get hold of a helium balloon stuffed with pencils but we can think big.

Drawing is all about mark making after all.

Something about the quality of the marks it makes reminds me of the beautiful drawings created by Behjat Omer who also works large-scale in comparison to the medium he uses, but with a lot more precision than a balloon of course

If you were lucky enough to get a seat at the Harvest performances in Northwood Park at the weekend , by B arts these scenes will bring back warm memories, from the moment you walked into the bowling green, the scene was set by a wonderful sparkling tree bedecked with knitted patchwork and covered in baubles containing hopes and dreams from local people – all pulled together by artist Rachel Grant.

It was a moving story of a broken family that eventually remembered, when it was all too late, how they once laughed and shared around the kitchen table. Under-pinned by the tale of the struggling bees across the world, we were delighted by the Staffordshire honey sauce on the pudding, loved the ceramics and burning hives by Martin Brockman and his fellow ceramicists,enjoyed the warmth of a burning fire and gently cupped our hands around handmade terracotta cups filled with spiced apple drink… we danced, we laughed we even cried a little bit maybe.

Lets explore more bee-autiful things…

Take a look into Q Cassetti’s honey inspired album – beautiful imagery

http://qcassetti.squarespace.com/the-atelier/the-hive/

Get poetic with Carol Ann Duffy‘s latest offering “The Bees” ( ISBN 9780330442442 Publisher – Picador )

Snuggle down with a gritty kitchen sink drama from the 60′s – get on the sofa with a cuppa and Rita Tushingham in the vintage classic “A Taste of Honey“