The sun shining brightly today and so I took some new photos of my work -Sculpture entitled dancer and another photo of my glass painting .

Painting on three peices of superimposed glass in a box -untitled -

Glass painting entitled Teifi

Oil painting ( made in my studio in Abingdon on Thames in 1966) Entitled - Bather emerging from the sea .

Dialogue

                                 Dialogue


                 Love waits -

                 " What do you mean? "

                  Love waits - by the doors of heaven,

                 Or by the gates of hell.

                 Even in the chaos of the Bardo state.

                " How can you know ?"

                For God's sake -we've been around,

                Did you not learn?

              "  Learn what?"

               Love cannot die!

              " But what if there is NOTHING?"

  
               Love waits there too!

                 

Lino print entitled The Death Of Actaeon ( after a painting by Titian )

Polychrome sculpture in clay, plaster perspex and wood ,entitled- UNDULATIONS

                    In the deep green 

                              Mysterious river -

                   What sharp poise you paint ,

                              Little yellow wagtail -

                              Strange and new! 




                   Yet an image of lonely beauty -

                               Perched upon that rock -

                  Dancing in the moving 

                              Mirror of Autumn trees.

painting in acrylic entitled The Tree Of Life

polychrome relief Entitled- Towards Hulme End .

Polychrome relief entitled USK

Wood carving entitled Dancer

Mono print entitled River.

Lino print in relief

Viol de gamba (with added strings behind fingerboard

sculpture in wood and clay ,entitled Metamorphoses

Beermat haiku entitled communion,

Tales of colorado

As I came to the corner of the street, I suddenly reconized it, ( in the town of my youth. )How unchanged it was,and how still- as you rounded the corner,it was as if you emerged into the other world of the high street.

mono print with added colour gold and pen work

Drawing and photo of a wall by a stream

Speculations of a day -

                    Living is a process of un-learning
          Un-learning what ?
          The unlearning of learning.
           To find our primal innocence-
           Like trees plants and animals,
           To discover our lost totality-
           In quiet being.

          

Holiday house

                     From our house

                     We look upon a steep hillside,

                     With its rounded rim -

                      Blue sky and clouds above,

                      Where large birds of prey circle -


                     The trees make lovely shadows

                     Upon the brown earth

                     For goats and rabbits.

                     An oak tree looks down upon us majestically -



                   The hill is inviting and mysterious-

                   I will not climb there ,

                   I am too lazy-

                   And anyway I prefer to imagine,

                   What lies beyond !

photos Eifel ,Duitsland

Eifel beermat verse

Mono print entitled Narcissus.

Beermat poems Monkey mind

Photo heks

Mono print -entitled Narcissus ( a parable of modern times )

BEERMAT POEMS-BRIDGE

Ruminations of the day -

           

     A zen man ( maybe from the twelve century -( see Zen Flesh Zen Bones )would often call to himself " Hey Jan - where are you!" What did he mean, and why would he do this! Was he calling little mind back from its preoccupations, back into the present of big mind? ( The day unfolds perfectly well without the interventions  of little mind.)Yet why does he bother to do this? Is it because it lives in restlessness and fragmentation, going from one thing to another and does not like what it feels as losing control-yet has no real peace and stability. And therefore Jan calls it home like the " prodigal son".

               The New Age movement has grabbed the word " mindfulness" And uses it in all walks of life ( it has become popularized )Yet little mind cannot really BE mindful- mindfulness is not of the mind in its presence but rather of its absence in the whole - What D.T. Suzuki calls unconscious consciousness.

            One can have the most interesting questions, read a lot of esoteric literature and have questions about life but its only when you find your own true question that it has meaning or resonance.
And how the hell does one do that? Well in my own experience, I 
try and look at a question as if no-one has asked it before -impossible? perhaps! And when a real question does arrive its important to hold onto it -but more than likely, it will hold onto you!

Mono print entitled The philosopher,

Mono print - entitled The philosopher.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rT6t4xP88VQ9ceGs7

Lino print in relief Composition with black white and green motifs

Dawn in Deventer ,Nederland

Mono print ( Tracks and trails) With pencil and gold,

Moonscapes

Ruminations of the day - for all time travellers ( not for beginners ! Not for those that know everything .But for those who walk un-knowingly between the darkness and the light !

                 We are all consigned to the forgotten history of time when we die! The important thing is to wake up from that unconscious dream whilst we are ALIVE!
                                   Art

     Illumination of the day-Sometimes I just wish, that it wasn't quite that easy -Chipping away at marble, flickering light upon the canvas, time capsules of novels and sonorous sonnets. I just wish that it wasn't so damned easy -That it wasn't just here now in everyday life!

Monoprint entitled Des nuages

The Brown mug

                          
                                   The Brown Mug


              As I contemplate

              The brown mug,
,,
               That I made some

                Sixty years ago,

               I feel vertigo -

               Stare dizzily

               Over life's panorama -




               How times' topography

               Has deceived us -

               By its slow increments,

              Time has made 

              A seamless passage,

             Towards today.

             Places people, family-

              Rainbow bubbles

             That hold us, then break -




              And yet I remember

              As a young man,

              Centering the clay

              On the spinning wheel -

              Feel my fingers forming

              The sides of the brown mug.

Beermat meditations -

Because I now have Nederlands citizenship I thought that I should make the effort to translate (with the help - lot of help from Maaike ) And anyway its great to see something translated ,it seems different ,often in a good way MAYBE I HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED !.

                                  Rivier


             De rivier stroomt 

             Door mijn aderen,

             Op het ritme van

             Mijn ademhaling -

             Soms zingend in

             Het zonnenlicht,
  
             Dan weer verdwijnend

             In donkere grotten -


            De verborgen kracht

            Die alles in leven houdt

            In zijn goedheid ,

            Drijvend -

            Een concerto grosso -

            Naar de oceaan

            Van oneindigheid -

            

Lino and mono print -entitled -River.( see poem below )