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14 hours ago
3 min

Family Secrets

'There is so much wisdom locked up in the stories women don’t tell' (Elaine Welteroth), but sometimes, just sometimes, they leave a trace...

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven…

Mary-Lynne Stadler

Feb 9
5 min

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven…

…and never does this seem truer than right now, when the almond trees are in exuberant bloom, and the sunbeams spotlight the delicate blo...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Jan 31
2 min

Fragile

When change dominates our lives and one fragile moment follows another at breathtaking pace, the qualities we most need to find are those...

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Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Without Losing Sight of the Shore

Mary-Lynne Stadler

Nov 6, 2020
4 min

Man Cannot Discover New Oceans Without Losing Sight of the Shore

Back in the day, when pubs were dimly-lit places where what little light there was came filtered through a haze of cigarette smoke, and a...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Oct 18, 2020
3 min

The ache for home lives in all of us

Now here’s an unlikely connection - the film My Octopus Teacher and an artist’s preoccupation with one particular tree. I’ve just watched...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Sep 27, 2020
3 min

Made With You in Mind and Heart

Every time I have been commissioned to make a work of art for someone, it has felt like an honour. The reason why came to me recently, af...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Jul 16, 2020
2 min

Re-Emergence......

The weeks slip by and each day slides, almost unnoticed, into the next. So, here we are, past the halfway mark for the year, past the lon...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Jun 25, 2020
4 min

Drawing the Way Home

A ball of red thread, unravelled as he entered, led Theseus out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth after he’d killed the beast, then returned hi...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

May 31, 2020
3 min

Inspired

‘Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.’ (Winnie...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

May 11, 2020
3 min

'A Line Going for a Walk...'

‘A drawing‘ is the result of seeing. When I draw the tree, I am faced with a mystery. I must enter into this mystery or fail. Whatever I ...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

May 5, 2020
5 min

Drawn on Stone

WARNING: this Blog is didactic, but please don’t let this stop you reading on to the end. It will be heavily illustrated! For my own part...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Apr 14, 2020
2 min

#artistsupportpledge

'In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morn...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Apr 4, 2020
2 min

All Boxed In

First and foremost, i trust you are all keeping healthy, and that lockdown isn't breaking your spirit. These are strange times, some are ...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Dec 30, 2019
3 min

Living in a Material World

I do hope that your festive season was, indeed, a festive time spent in good company with loved ones, and that you have managed, somehow,...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Dec 1, 2019
2 min

Small and Beautiful

There's no point in beating around the bush.....this blog is blatantly about me trying to persuade you, my reader, that what you would mo...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Oct 12, 2019
3 min

The Real Work is the Change

‘Art is a form of nourishment to me’ (Andy Goldsworthy) For those who are unfamiliar with his work, Andy Goldsworthy is a site specific E...

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Art is the Unconscious Becoming Conscious

Mary-Lynne Stadler

Sep 30, 2019
5 min

Art is the Unconscious Becoming Conscious

So, for the past three plus weeks I haven’t been able to get into my studio to make work, nor will I be able to do so for a few weeks yet...

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Sep 21, 2019
2 min

Ripples of An Epiphany

On the cusp of the New Year I met the ancient olive tree that finally broke a creative drought that had gripped me for years. ‘God’s foun...

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'The Enemy of Art is the Absence of Limitations'

Mary-Lynne Stadler

Jun 24, 2019
4 min

'The Enemy of Art is the Absence of Limitations'

Getting to know something in depth has been enriching in so many ways. Far from being boring, working within tight constraints has engendere

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Mary-Lynne Stadler

Mar 11, 2019
5 min

Tell Me A Story - Your Story

Well, to be more precise, tell me a personal story, a true story, about a particular tree or trees that have played an important role in ...

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