Author: Colin Slater – artist
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Songs from the Wood
‘Let me bring you songs from the wood/To make you feel much better than you could knowDust you down from tip to toe/Show you how the garden growsHold you steady as you go…………………Let me bring you love from the field/poppies red and roses filled with summer rainTo heal the wound and still the pain/that threatens…
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Whatever Sincerely
The end of a busy freelance artworking week at Southern United in deepest, darkest, dirtiest Portslade. Spending over 40 hours sitting in the Drawing Office hot seat staring at a computer screen wasn’t the most relaxing 5 days but the company is always welcoming and entertaining. The Friday night reward this time around however was…
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Knowing Me, Knowing You
Visiting Vienna, a change of routine and a change of temperature. Saturday morning, and a meeting with Frida Kahlo. My first encounter was in 1977 and it was accidental. At that time I was actively involved with mural painting and researching the work of the Mexican Mural Renaissance, my immediate interest being the work of…
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Boston Tea Party
– scribbled recollections of a Creative Partnerships new technology training day The day began early, driving north almost beyond civilisation as we know it, most traffic heading in the opposite direction, the A16 to Boston like a cue left discarded on a billiard table. Was this for ease of access – or to enable a…
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A Question of Balance
With music and cinema having played such an important role in my life I often slip a lyric or a line from a film script into a conversation. Following the Digital Footprints workshop as part of the Creative Partnerships programme at Haven Online in Boston last week, the seminal Moody Blues album came to mind.…