Tag: zenmondays
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Closing the circle on the season of fresh leaves – “The spring fifer”.
The boundaries between process and meaning. Before I left for the season of fresh green leaves in Japan I fell under the spell of this white blossom branch on a late spring rainy day and started a new painting in “The bookbinder’s world” series. It was the week of Zurich’s Spring festival, and I had…
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Keeping the link between ink, nature and poetry alive.
In between lotus painting sessions I painted a postcard view from another well-known Zurich garden – the Rietberg Park.
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Paint the lotus season. Rinse. Repeat.
I have been meaning to do this for a while, but somehow I was always in the wrong place at the right time of year. Recording the development of the lotus season from a single place in Zurich – the small pond of the Old Botanical Garden.
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A rainy day, at level with the treecreeper behind brushed green clouds.
I have to admit, as much as I love the warmth of spring blossoms, there is something special about the musical rhythm of a garden or park on a rainy day. Have you noticed it too?
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All I did was sit at my desk and pick up a brush pen.
“All I did was go to the library to pick up a book.” Murakami Haruki in „The Strange Library“ This sentence by Murakami, or the variation in today’s title really describes best how a new painting idea slowly takes form on paper, or in this case, bookbinder’s board. Books or walks are the seed, but…
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Paling camellia, wind-brushed magnolia, with a mallard for companion.
This week work on a new composition for the Tokyo 2024 international ink painting exhibition has officially begun. Until I feel ready to share more, this corner will be filled again with straight from the sketchbook, relaxing moments. Today, a late afternoon ink painting garden walk with my sketchbook, as the pink camellia start paling…