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Monday, 6 May 2013

Orange Trawler, Strood Channel ~ Daily Sketch 06/05/2013

Posted by James and Maggie at 06:20 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Saltmarsh, sketchbook

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Robinia Tree ~ Daily Sketch 05/05/2013

Posted by James and Maggie at 06:18 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Painting, sketchbook, Spring

Friday, 3 May 2013

Cloud Forms over Wigborough ~ Daily Sketch 03/05/2013

Posted by James and Maggie at 05:59 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Saltmarsh, sketchbook

Thursday, 2 May 2013

Saltmarsh at the Strood ~ Daily Sketch 02/05/2013

Posted by James and Maggie at 05:56 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Saltmarsh

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

View Towards Ray Island ~ Daily Sketch 01/05/2013


Posted by James and Maggie at 09:39 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Places, Saltmarsh

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Cloud Above the Saltmarsh ~ Daily Sketch 30/04/2013


Posted by James and Maggie at 10:09 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Saltmarsh

Monday, 29 April 2013

Stump ~ Daily Sketch 29/04/2013


Posted by James and Maggie at 10:06 No comments: Links to this post
Labels: Art, Daily Sketch, Drawing, Mersea, Painting, Saltmarsh, sketchbook
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From When I Can Remember

From When I Can Remember
The artist's mother's intriguing biography of her early life on Mersea Island from the outbreak of World War 2 through to 1968. Available from The Artcafe!

What's On Our Blackboard Today ?

What's On Our Blackboard Today ?

Mersea Island Bloggers

  • Banksy Boy
  • Elizaphanian
  • Fay & Ray Bray
  • Leafy's Art Blog
  • Mersea Wildlife
  • Musings From A Muddy Island
  • Tarviragus
  • The Artcafé Diary
  • The Poop Deck
  • Tom Knight
  • Treasured & Weathered

What We're Currently Reading

The Artist...
'The Book of Books'
By Melvyn Bragg

The Tartist...
'Death Comes To Pemberley'
By P.D. James

Websites/Blogs Of Interest

  • Biblio Odyssey - Book Art Eclectica
  • Briar Press ~ Letterpress Community
  • Changing Minds ~ An Interesting Resource
  • Chrissie Gamble ~ Photographer
  • Each Little World
  • ffffound
  • Hemingway Design
  • I Am Martin
  • I Prefer Reading
  • James Russell
  • Jane James ~ Ceramics/Driftwood
  • Juliet Doyle
  • Leeward House ~ Stay On Mersea
  • Letters of Note
  • Life's a Beach ~ Sarah Ruffhead
  • Make Us A Brew
  • Martin Newell ~ Poet
  • Mersea 'Boot' Camps For Ladies
  • Mersea Island
  • Mitch Albom
  • Monkey Beach Cottage - Stay on Mersea
  • My Curious Tea Party
  • Not On The High Street
  • Oysterbed Cottage ~ Stay On Mersea
  • Perch Here
  • Philosophy Bites
  • Random Sam
  • Shedworking
  • Spitalfields Life
  • Stephen Fry
  • The Artcafé
  • Toby Peecock ~ Piano Tuner
  • Transition Towns
  • Typophile
  • Typoretum ~ Justin's Blog
  • Typoretum ~ Letterpress Type/Design
  • Unmitigated England
  • West Mersea Town Regatta
  • You May Also Like

'FOODIE' SITES / BLOGS

  • BBC Food
  • David Lebovitz
  • Eat The Seasons ~ Food Seasonality
  • Essex Eating
  • Essex Gourmet ~ Online Guide
  • Guardian Food Blog
  • Hub-uk ~ Recipes etc.
  • James Ramsden
  • Mersea Food Drink & Leisure Festival
  • Nigel Slater
  • Ottolenghi
  • Raymond Blanc
  • River Cottage ~ Hugh Fearnley 'Wotsit'
  • Ruth Watson
  • Slow Food
  • St. John Restaurant
  • Sudden Lunch ~ The 'Tartist's' Sister's Blog
  • The Food Programme
  • The Hoste Arms
  • U.K. Tea Council

'ARTY-FARTY' SITES / BLOGS

  • All Things Considered
  • Art Of England ~ Magazine
  • Artcyclopedia
  • Artists & Illustrators
  • Artnet
  • Artworks
  • BBC Arts
  • Chartered Society of Designers
  • Colchester Arts Centre
  • Colchester Open Studios
  • Creative Review
  • Design Council
  • Design Instruct
  • Eric Spiekermann ~ Type/Design
  • Fish & Ships
  • Fonts In Use ~ Typography
  • Front Row
  • Government Art Collection
  • I Love Typography
  • idsgn - Design Blog
  • Land Sketch
  • Mavina Baker - Printmaker
  • Melanie Wickham ~ Printmaker
  • Nothing is New ~ Design Inspiration
  • Royal Watercolour Society
  • Soendergaard design ~ Porcelain
  • Starch Green ~ Patternmakers
  • The Design Museum
  • The Design Museum
  • The Methodist Art Collection
  • The Ministry Of Type
  • The Suffolk Craft Society
  • V&A ~ John Constable's Sketches
  • Vads ~ a brilliant arty resource
  • Van Gogh's Blog ~ His Letters
  • We Love Typography
  • When Art History Goes Bad

Artist's Sites

  • '12PM' ~ 12 Printmakers
  • Andrew Ruffhead ~ 'Fish & Ships'
  • Angie Lewin
  • Anita Klein
  • Anne Schwegmann-Fielding ~ Mosaic etc.
  • Annie Bielecka
  • Banksy
  • Clare Curtis
  • Colin Moore - Printmaker/Painter
  • David Hockney
  • Debbie Ayles
  • Elizabeth Morris
  • Graham Webber
  • Hothouse Beads
  • James Dodds
  • James Weaver
  • Jan Dingle
  • Jane James
  • Jonathan Trim
  • Julie Pettitt
  • Kurt Jackson
  • Leafy Dumas
  • Lesley Carruthers
  • Linocutboy ~ Printmaker
  • Maggie Hambling
  • Mavina Baker ~ Printmaker
  • Melanie Wickham
  • Nicola Contreras
  • Penny Bhadresa
  • Robin Cheers
  • Stanislaw Zoladz ~ Fabulous Watercolours
  • Tom Knight ~ Illustrator

Places We Like

  • Books For Cooks
  • Borough Market
  • Browsers Bookshop
  • Guntons ~ Very Good Deli/Shop
  • Pump Street Bakery
  • Snape Maltings
  • The Crown and Castle
  • The Hoste Arms
  • The Seafood Restaurant
  • The Strand Café
  • Trebarwith Strand
  • Wiveton Hall

Groovy Music ~ In Our Opinion

  • Beth Nielsen Chapman
  • Crowded House
  • David Lindley
  • Elbow
  • Jackson Browne
  • Josh Ritter
  • Lemon Jelly
  • Leon Redbone
  • Madness
  • Penguin Café Orchestra
  • Regina Spektor
  • Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
  • Teddy Thompson
  • The Blockheads
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Tim Minchin
  • Toots & The Maytals
  • Traditional Music ~ Sheet Music Archive
  • Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain
  • Van Morrison

Good Galleries

  • Big Blue Sky
  • Bircham Gallery
  • Firstsite - Colchester
  • Fish & Ships ~ Coastal Art, Nth. Norfolk
  • Hayletts Gallery
  • Reunion Gallery
  • Saatchi Gallery
  • Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts
  • Serena Hall Gallery
  • St. Judes
  • The John Russell Gallery
  • The National Gallery ~ Obviously
  • The Royal Academy of Arts
  • The Tate ~ Obviously

Followers

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