The end of summer

My hus and I have developed the practice of taking periodic Work Retreats: a few days in every month in which we hole ourselves up in our respective studios, the Internet switched off and the phone disengaged, in order to focus on work with greater attention than is possible during ordinary interrupted working days. Today is a holiday here in Britain, but starting tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, I'll be incommunicado in my quiet studio. Then I'll be back online again on Monday, September 5th.

I'm working on a writing project right now, and Howard is working on a range of things, from Commedia to pupptry. Here he is on the porch of his own studio (on the other side of the garden hedge from mine), building the collapsible wooden frame for a Punch & Judy booth:

The Widdershins exhibition at Green Hill is now over, and I do remember that I promised to share my art for it here once the show had closed its doors. Below is the first of my six Widdershins collages. I've set up the other five for automatic posting each morning of the week ahead while I'm on Retreat, one per day.

This one is called Once Upon a Time:

Here it is framed in my studio before the exhibition, and on the wall at Green Hill with the other five pieces in the series:

I hope the end of your summer is gentle, peaceful, and fully of creativity. See you in a week.

"Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed."  - Mary Oliver