tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73606769760385790722024-03-13T14:29:00.552+01:00Livsmalerier - Painting Life in ColourSussi Louise at GALLERY LIVSMALERI paints everyday life in colourful naïvism. A vibrant celebration of everyday life and the grace it encompasses. Beauty lies in the detail. And in the blue hues. And in chocolate. There must always be chocolate. And Coffee. Possibly swearing. Definitely Salty Liquorice.Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-61381756865221806602023-12-05T18:59:00.000+01:002023-12-05T18:59:45.582+01:00Yule Island launch - Scandi Noir <p style="text-align: center;">Online Crime Noir Event
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</p><p>Thursday December 14 at 7PM
</p><p>Sign up by emailing info@grovebookshop.com
</p><p>The Grove Bookshop is delighted to welcome international bestselling author and hugely entertaining crime writer Johana Gustawsson for an evening of thrilling conversation about her new crime novel L'île de Yule or Yule Island. Set in Sweden, the book pulls you straight into the darkness of Nordic winter and a place where cosy hygge soon turns into dark horror.
</p><p>We also welcome David Warriner, Yorkshire lad and award-winning translator for a discussion about his work with Johana translating her Swedish inspired book from French to English; and resident Grove Bookshop artist Sussi Louise Smith whose poem Johana chose for her main character Emma.
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<p></p><p>By Johana Gustawsson
</p><p>The queen of French Noir is BACK in Scandinavia
</p><p>And she is freezing
</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Author's Note
</span></p><p>Storholmen is a car-free island in the Stockholm Archipelago in Sweden. A manor house was built there at the turn of the twentieth century, and rumour has it, it's haunted. It's a five-minute boat ride away from my home, and I'm about to take you there.
</p><p>Are you ready? Wrap up warm. It's cold outside.
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</p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-63316265723656878312023-12-01T09:29:00.000+01:002023-12-01T09:29:01.988+01:00YULE HYGGE in Galleri :Livsmaleri<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqjm8H2UDscuRUmxipHeJzMTv9wjP7QyZTirICaNMPXQiG6Cxd9uAvixCTyte19R8HHeuLfGEMRdztXnBIEYiSTcF5fznjkWK6PN-AgZHUsf9plFP_x8EgfDrF1EqkAmyXfdGRtwYaM_8fs3K-aVfTnpb9g1rPzIyKNwd0ci-8dVYJcpYQy8zk1AM1qs/s2192/IMG_20201216_141101_561.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2192" data-original-width="2192" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqjm8H2UDscuRUmxipHeJzMTv9wjP7QyZTirICaNMPXQiG6Cxd9uAvixCTyte19R8HHeuLfGEMRdztXnBIEYiSTcF5fznjkWK6PN-AgZHUsf9plFP_x8EgfDrF1EqkAmyXfdGRtwYaM_8fs3K-aVfTnpb9g1rPzIyKNwd0ci-8dVYJcpYQy8zk1AM1qs/w320-h320/IMG_20201216_141101_561.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>HYGGE IS BACK in the studio <p></p><p>Last Open Day of 2023 in Galleri Livsmaleri</p><p>Danish hygge, English, any kind you like. If you'd like a taste of the Sussi sort and perhaps dream of picking up some original artwork or a stocking filler Xmas stone... I am your girl or</p><p>I am your Nisse, rather. 🧑🎄</p><p>Loads of little artsy things to touch and feast your eyes on. Don't have to buy anything, just come by and say hi. </p><p>Yule Hygge in the spirit of community and kindness. Sussi's Happy Art Project is not just something I say, I mean it and I live it. Doesn't mean I don't get angry sometimes, or sad, really really sad, but it does mean that I find, that when I art (yes I am using art as a verb, 😜🥰🤣) I am always always brought back to grace and gratitude. I do not sell or present any art that is not made with love. Because I don't have any. </p><p>Come and get a hug, some hygge, an æbleskive and draw a card. Maybe even braid a heart ❤️, </p><p>It's much less painful than it seems 🤣🤣🤣</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqPY_b9ZPsd5_NqbQVSy7x9U0ILl1OIRNora9Z18YgPAJul0Ph3L8y7EMtlOWFACO_Qdmh2FT6qT46_07RykVFJZ_29daR5WlE7iylD68tr_9yPe_-bnFkKmGdXgF31Mf8fSCwf8HhHsSPc_pTJs6bP-KVr2fFEkRHYhEkSV18lxXbNtp4RrlRQ3djjY/s4000/IMG_20211125_085920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqPY_b9ZPsd5_NqbQVSy7x9U0ILl1OIRNora9Z18YgPAJul0Ph3L8y7EMtlOWFACO_Qdmh2FT6qT46_07RykVFJZ_29daR5WlE7iylD68tr_9yPe_-bnFkKmGdXgF31Mf8fSCwf8HhHsSPc_pTJs6bP-KVr2fFEkRHYhEkSV18lxXbNtp4RrlRQ3djjY/s320/IMG_20211125_085920.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Galleri Livsmaleri</p><p>Sunday Dec 17 from 10-16</p><p>9 Belmont road</p><p>Ilkley </p><p><br /></p><p>Remember warm socks or slippers... and please, if you can, no perfume 🙏 I get so terribly sick</p><p>de kærligste julehilsener</p><p>Sus</p><p><br /></p><p>PS There will be a little How to Braid a Heart at 12.30 ❤️ and a make-your-own Xmas card workstation all day. Come get creative with me 🙂 </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRMN2fbeOC95oEleBf8OLvU0lCou2kBKecsk1Iy7XxfpcaMEqXCTB21kCtI5yD9FVNO5p14jkk_xkob1kse1G6xEv-NT84jFUdS2Rfmrw7SVkjOXNB4bIvSw4q7WSI1UJp590zpE0m3cduHSnaL8vzi6Dnrm5UxnzNQF9M7A9zRbfAa7EM_8awNZDkRw/s4000/IMG_20201128_205708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCRMN2fbeOC95oEleBf8OLvU0lCou2kBKecsk1Iy7XxfpcaMEqXCTB21kCtI5yD9FVNO5p14jkk_xkob1kse1G6xEv-NT84jFUdS2Rfmrw7SVkjOXNB4bIvSw4q7WSI1UJp590zpE0m3cduHSnaL8vzi6Dnrm5UxnzNQF9M7A9zRbfAa7EM_8awNZDkRw/s320/IMG_20201128_205708.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTH9S8tP5OPZTr6yLECt02sP5wI0O0Qzj_2Ye0UUP0srXcsMi1d3b-E29MhBxXDCJTyZoB_WqpbmmQlYkhwUaTQcDPoAN3PzRUlncA67oRLcjx0BhvZhEhtdUIx-pskSL8YGmM1Or_YczbBnD8K21fIRRqqJPKMRnIhlJR8uRh-B7oUtZYOOF07LXUWQ/s4000/01ERTJS1J886M2988PWG1D981A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTH9S8tP5OPZTr6yLECt02sP5wI0O0Qzj_2Ye0UUP0srXcsMi1d3b-E29MhBxXDCJTyZoB_WqpbmmQlYkhwUaTQcDPoAN3PzRUlncA67oRLcjx0BhvZhEhtdUIx-pskSL8YGmM1Or_YczbBnD8K21fIRRqqJPKMRnIhlJR8uRh-B7oUtZYOOF07LXUWQ/s320/01ERTJS1J886M2988PWG1D981A.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><p></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-33351668407493110712023-10-13T11:18:00.001+02:002023-10-17T09:37:54.701+02:00Between the Spaces - Hardback poetry book illustrated by yours truly<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1UmTLLXs-aN6HKST8gkL5GHzg2dSVw1dyEB2WnUDFh-55t85O6AWngAdOgcKcEu_A4mMBHtMs531yrhrsxtNuaNahE6teBLkiXvOTStFRi7n3tzdwr_L1GTomSOxtKr4aPDWsHa3GYYKwXTy6l6oJPYFZMRHZlmMJPiZCW51C2Db-aR8mbLhGAvvN5U/s3280/IMG_20231011_125214.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3280" data-original-width="2464" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1UmTLLXs-aN6HKST8gkL5GHzg2dSVw1dyEB2WnUDFh-55t85O6AWngAdOgcKcEu_A4mMBHtMs531yrhrsxtNuaNahE6teBLkiXvOTStFRi7n3tzdwr_L1GTomSOxtKr4aPDWsHa3GYYKwXTy6l6oJPYFZMRHZlmMJPiZCW51C2Db-aR8mbLhGAvvN5U/w240-h320/IMG_20231011_125214.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Here it is, the hardback poetry collection by KM Herbert I illustrated.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">Isn't it beautiful? If I look ever so slightly wide-eyed it is because... Well, when </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz notranslate _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/km_herbert/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">@km_herbert</a><span style="background-color: white;"> published this collection a few years back, in the shape of cards, it really truly blew me away, but I have to admit, I have not read the poems for a couple of years. Then this books drops through the letterbox. Hardbacked. Crisp coloured. A weight in my hands, and I read them all again. And I cried. Fractured and rebuilt by the truth and beauty of them.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I am so proud of my interpretations in this book of colour and poetry. And I hope you would love to hold one in your hand too.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">I will add a link to the American site and to the British. I Have five copies here in Galleri Livsmaleri that you can buy when you come by for one of my open days 😍 the next one is Oct 22nd. I am also happy to send to the UK</span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You can order it in North America via <a href="https://tr.ee/GA-yH_Blsc" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">or in the UK via <a href=" https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1803521805?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_VA1R1CT5ENN573WFW9R7 " target="_blank">Amazon</a><br style="background-color: white;" /><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ANZiJ_K4XDAJhSV_LCgfzLS_YcktWJoap-XIhLTLcY7cROexK6HVixpOH7rErU1hFvb7dpd-BJBlMmKCLsnbaoanVR43a-YTcpGZ0jv3N66Vn4uTDMdmfiD00AVdafE2pjexyCOTstDGe_YS0g46ahHGJMZmDuoPTCjVUna33lS4yE4WG_xGgZBbJc0/s3840/IMG-20231011-WA0006.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ANZiJ_K4XDAJhSV_LCgfzLS_YcktWJoap-XIhLTLcY7cROexK6HVixpOH7rErU1hFvb7dpd-BJBlMmKCLsnbaoanVR43a-YTcpGZ0jv3N66Vn4uTDMdmfiD00AVdafE2pjexyCOTstDGe_YS0g46ahHGJMZmDuoPTCjVUna33lS4yE4WG_xGgZBbJc0/w225-h400/IMG-20231011-WA0006.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><br style="background-color: white;" /><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/betweenthespaces/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#Publication</a><br style="background-color: white;" /><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/poetsofinstagram/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#poetsofinstagram</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/canadianpoet/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#canadianpoet</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/danishartist/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#Danishartist</a><br style="background-color: white;" /><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/illustrator/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#illustrator</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/illustragram/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#illustragram</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/illustratorsoninstagram/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#illustratorsoninstagram</a><span style="background-color: white;"></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/poetrycommunity/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#poetrycommunity</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/booklovers/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#booklovers</a><br style="background-color: white;" /><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/happyday/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#happyday</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/grateful/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#grateful</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/instahappy/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#instahappy</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/poetryillustration/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#poetryillustration</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artisticpoetry/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#artisticpoetry</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/illustratedbeauty/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#illustratedbeauty</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/beautifulwords/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#beautifulwords</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artisticexpression/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#artisticexpression</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/poetrylove/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#poetrylove</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/illustratedpoetry/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#illustratedpoetry</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/artisticeye/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#artisticeye</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/beautifulillustrations/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#beautifulillustrations</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/poetrycollection/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#poetrycollection</a></span></div></div>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-21003501640662902612023-10-02T12:39:00.005+02:002023-10-13T10:04:52.798+02:00Open day in Galleri Livsmaleri <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span> </span>Art and Poetry Busking </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Open Studio Day</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-bfac96c7-7fff-06cb-854a-6ee83bdfedac"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">in Galleri Livsmaleri</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span>#sussishappyartproject</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oct 22, 2023</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">10-15</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">9 Belmont Road, Ilkley</span></span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></h2><span id="docs-internal-guid-9351a4f3-7fff-2200-972f-9e111b0a0e60"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On this glorious Sunday I open my art studio to the public so you have a chance to browse my latest artworks, watch me paint or commission me to paint a stone for you right there on the spot. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">AND </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I am excited to invite into Galleri Livsmaleri the amazing Molly Ovenden who is both a professional painter and a poet, in fact, you can hire her to write you a poem, right there, whilst you wait. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Or you can ask me to do you an artstone while you watch and drink buckets of English tea and Danish coffee (also known as: real coffee).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is going to be ever so Hygge and really good fun. All in the spirit of gratitude and creative expression. Do bring along your kids and puppies. I know it is halloween, but NO spiders!!! Ingen edderkopper.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As most of you know, women in my family are very likely to experience breast cancer and on this day - proceeds from my stone painting busking will go to Breast Cancer Now. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Kærlig Hilsen</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sussi Louise</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p></span><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We create while you await</span></h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TJiHoKcIaEGuZJsvlbM0qn-0ZXYYoOl3e8Y--61FubRwuk2WzignJkUxOmXwLtrlNBn9JGLHKrerTQH_8aig-HoO7HNSp4Pz3jkkcHVriPp89BO998-oyEhrK37XoTP1qaV9B-QD3tC2Rcbbx40zXYU=w243-h320" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="243" /></div><br /><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Molly Ovenden</span></b></div></b><br />As a writer, artist, teacher and creative writing coach, I’m thrilled to support you along your creative journey.<br /><br />I love circles, coffee, tea, Jesus, running and making creativity a habit.<br /><br />I’m married to my bearded Englishman carpenter, Max (yes, he has a delicious accent and yes, that’s part of what won me over to be his wife!) and we live in Northern Minnesota, USA.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPXI6ELHtSezHBJSy9SWYO2WOsf1g8QsLL41jaYr2ql_5eAOWB6YUHLH7UtsIcz2ziZkQj2rEOti9im8Wa_dyq7iq4-YLVjM82C5N-cqwF0U2jS41tw5UUm9oHYmEa1PrtxXRIKtUZ5yDErV6oXmrh13oSj1-sLLC-t2Br7vEREj4fBnNYmHLNdckMdBo/s512/sussi%20kna.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPXI6ELHtSezHBJSy9SWYO2WOsf1g8QsLL41jaYr2ql_5eAOWB6YUHLH7UtsIcz2ziZkQj2rEOti9im8Wa_dyq7iq4-YLVjM82C5N-cqwF0U2jS41tw5UUm9oHYmEa1PrtxXRIKtUZ5yDErV6oXmrh13oSj1-sLLC-t2Br7vEREj4fBnNYmHLNdckMdBo/s320/sussi%20kna.png" width="319" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Sussi Louise</span></b></div><br />Hejsa, I am Sussi, a Danish artist, creative coach and poet. Since my mum was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer 10 years ago #sussishappyartproject has been my way of helping her and others deal with fear and grief. Telling stories through art.<br /><br />I love spinning arms sprayed oceans wide, books kindness, coffee and oh how I love the sea the sea.<br /><br />Love made me move to Ilkley, UK six years ago and I am just about used to the rain now. KIDDING… it’s too much, make it stop, please 😂<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ml8dL0GHMvg7I3pC87gsZ9oIf5b6cdtLWxOYWP5OahTG3DvcgN-7Mm3llHv0mmwpLdLHXkwfHWvA_gYj-px2HMuntGCT6_LAbAN91ZBcTsiWe8uqgys2S9dzVRZwJbAigRgukKTihmu08pdkRplsIThzg6y5phn01IgB3bdwkNoO0P5mJqlVLGhdEnc/s320/rain.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ml8dL0GHMvg7I3pC87gsZ9oIf5b6cdtLWxOYWP5OahTG3DvcgN-7Mm3llHv0mmwpLdLHXkwfHWvA_gYj-px2HMuntGCT6_LAbAN91ZBcTsiWe8uqgys2S9dzVRZwJbAigRgukKTihmu08pdkRplsIThzg6y5phn01IgB3bdwkNoO0P5mJqlVLGhdEnc/s1600/rain.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>More about Molly’s Poetry Busking</b></h3><br /><br />What is poetry busking?<br /><br />It’s literally a street performance. Musicians on street corners, circus acts balancing or all white statues who turn and wink when you put money in their hat–it’s all busking.<br /><br />When I write poems for people and invite you to <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mollyovenden">hire me to write you a poem and pay</a> via cash or electronically. When I am busking. I sit in a public place with my notebook and Smith Corona Classic 12 typewriter and I write poetry.<br /><br />Want a poem?<br />If you want a poem, let me know when you see me. You might have to wait if others are ahead of you, but I’ll try to give you an estimated time. You may also have to wait if I’m deep in the flow of writing. Sometimes the creative parallel universe takes me deep in and I don’t notice someone waiting right away.<br /><br />Pick a topic:<br />If you’re not sure what you might want your poem to be about (no worries!) or who you might want it to be for (it’s totally fine to have one just for yourself, though!), I’ll ask you questions to help you pick a topic.<br /><br />I write. I type. I perform<br />Then, I’ll write while you wait. Usually this takes somewhere in the range of 15-20 minutes, but sometimes it takes up to 30 minutes. When your poem is finished, I’ll perform it aloud to you and you get the typewritten copy.<br /><br />You pay for the service of a personalized poem.<br />When you hire me to write you a poem, you can either <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mollyovenden">pay in cash</a> or electronically on my <a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mollyovenden">Buy Me a Coffee link here</a>.<br /><br />I always want to be clear that when I write poetry for people, I am working. Writing poetry is a significant method that I earn my living as a writer and I am proud that I get to have a really fun and life giving job that is a gift to others. It’s such a privilege.<br /><br /><br />While you are under no obligation to give money to someone busking, when I write poetry in live settings on my typewriter, I am providing a valuable creative service, and as an artist, I hope people do not take my art for granted.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /></span>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-68443445727617940052023-09-13T11:12:00.003+02:002023-10-02T11:29:52.880+02:00The holy grail a mermaid's tail and you my shard of brine<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The holy grail, a mermaid's tail and you my shard of brine</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih3elJNVBJwXHbzhv50nQo9CiL6_z1OJtQB0JpKs29cx2NtTFazpgjuxPPjzoeO9X5AjU43NX9u1PAP1Sf6UU_Zlk8pu3NA0sBmJvKkHZQ5kBo1o_iRPE5AntPkgBMnIAe0thlGIK8mSnYYkkzDRX9aj73CqJnn_Z8A_Luw-uXkAfHb_f2Ww7GddiX2GA/s3840/IMG-20230817-WA0025.jpeg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih3elJNVBJwXHbzhv50nQo9CiL6_z1OJtQB0JpKs29cx2NtTFazpgjuxPPjzoeO9X5AjU43NX9u1PAP1Sf6UU_Zlk8pu3NA0sBmJvKkHZQ5kBo1o_iRPE5AntPkgBMnIAe0thlGIK8mSnYYkkzDRX9aj73CqJnn_Z8A_Luw-uXkAfHb_f2Ww7GddiX2GA/s320/IMG-20230817-WA0025.jpeg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJiG4SERrFL6g38jKjMKlxU5LkQsVOOHxjDJLbnp6803UR5HtGlbHD1xQAexLZidy82aLt3fLMglnCq8yfaED-kSqoWMAA2TzByq7u-HNq_O2yS-urQW7xs5Wp4n6jYFFDIgwSN3OZ_-2aYLVT_C96phmNthfENXq-BcYluWJ_YB0Wz6d6aQj4BTqbxA/s3840/IMG-20230817-WA0021.jpeg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieJiG4SERrFL6g38jKjMKlxU5LkQsVOOHxjDJLbnp6803UR5HtGlbHD1xQAexLZidy82aLt3fLMglnCq8yfaED-kSqoWMAA2TzByq7u-HNq_O2yS-urQW7xs5Wp4n6jYFFDIgwSN3OZ_-2aYLVT_C96phmNthfENXq-BcYluWJ_YB0Wz6d6aQj4BTqbxA/s320/IMG-20230817-WA0021.jpeg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">£290</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mounted not framed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIuxFvDRBaS24m6jV-38I9TpiUJmdW6TtfxyQvi9S_VRjpTNjpg4hJWbRlgkf41fwi3wFQ4y4RpEDjvS-_mfrveR0PieRbXZ_M6lAE2KTch0FBQfNQPbeTGCd77J-P5O40Y8fn4FIHc1NyZEvF6uv-a9KrCI2UDN5cwN2OnJfZoZNfyM6vlLNtN4zjxs/s4000/IMG_20230818_155126.jpg"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdIuxFvDRBaS24m6jV-38I9TpiUJmdW6TtfxyQvi9S_VRjpTNjpg4hJWbRlgkf41fwi3wFQ4y4RpEDjvS-_mfrveR0PieRbXZ_M6lAE2KTch0FBQfNQPbeTGCd77J-P5O40Y8fn4FIHc1NyZEvF6uv-a9KrCI2UDN5cwN2OnJfZoZNfyM6vlLNtN4zjxs/w300-h400/IMG_20230818_155126.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This painting is a collaboration between the sea, my mother and me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And it is pure light</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I love it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I love painting generally but some paintings. The soul. It just soars</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A day without painting for me, is like a day without water. I desicaate. Emotionally dehydrate. Wither creatively.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some days it is a mere five minutes stolen whilst taking time out to go the loooooong way to the bin, others it's 9 hours straight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How do you manage to be creative? Time pirating or excellent time management? And if the latter, how the 🐸 do you do it?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">#theartistsway #sussishappyartproject #allthearting #notenoughtime #manifestingmoretime And #manifestingworldpeace #artbysussilouise #creativelife #creativepractice #love #mermaidlife #bluemind #bluemindart #ilkley #danishart #kunstwerk #ilovethesea #protectourseas #oceanprotection</span></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-17399327660321335632023-09-08T11:36:00.004+02:002023-09-08T11:36:48.810+02:00The lighthouse wave<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPH2P3rau91h__rsj76yx7iW2fuEQY9evIIJvBJ5_B0MB_AaeD-4unx9hKLNyotIR98dG0dQ1hq_KT9l-rtLI3b6zEwvAHMOxKWlqwU2-RUeoN5q46oCBfVukxuPkpSI_PFiJTiWIxVt2mlDVZO7xE0FQjKM7Acf9pRczbt-wQO-jxDMqhgqYy2vz7Q28/s6560/IMG_20230908_100041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6560" data-original-width="4928" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPH2P3rau91h__rsj76yx7iW2fuEQY9evIIJvBJ5_B0MB_AaeD-4unx9hKLNyotIR98dG0dQ1hq_KT9l-rtLI3b6zEwvAHMOxKWlqwU2-RUeoN5q46oCBfVukxuPkpSI_PFiJTiWIxVt2mlDVZO7xE0FQjKM7Acf9pRczbt-wQO-jxDMqhgqYy2vz7Q28/w257-h343/IMG_20230908_100041.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Stepping into the weekend on a wave</p><p>Riding the high knowing the low</p><p>That's the thing though, isn't it</p><p>Waves know how to constantly reinvent themselves </p><p>Reshape</p><p>Regroup</p><p>Stay true to the task</p><p>Hard fluidity</p><p>Identifiable but never the same for long</p><p>Confucius like</p><p>An ocean of habits</p><p>Of emotions</p><p>Of rituals </p><p>Shaping praying pluralising</p><p><br /></p><p>It's like that</p><p>Horrifically predictable and not at all all at the same time</p><p><br /></p><p>This is how I painted this lighthouse</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew the lighthouse</p><p>I knew the waves</p><p>I knew the blues</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew not what it would look like</p><p><br /></p><p>But here we are</p><p><br /></p><p>The lighthouse of my dreams</p><p><br /></p><p>Ink on paper</p><p>£255</p><p>Mounted not framed</p><p>DM for more information</p><p><br /></p><p>#sussishappyartproject #bluemind #bluemindart</p><p>#kunstwerk</p><p>#kunst</p><p>#danskkunst</p><p>#danishart</p><p>#ilkleyart</p><p>#ilkley</p><p>#homedecor</p><p>#art</p><p>#instaart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainter #worksonpaper #exhibition #artforall #naiveart #holiday #affordableart #doitfortheprocess #thecurators #summer #contemporaryart #interiors #artiststudio #studio</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw7PioTscU9/?igshid=MmU2YjMzNjRlOQ==</p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-90544857913000363032023-03-16T10:03:00.001+01:002023-03-16T10:03:17.515+01:00The Horrors of Yellow <p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKQg2CjqeG7yQGBR4coESDd1FUW6rBS8JRN9oalG1GgOnJmMB2fCXB1FtjYIzeJehvGvhZPThDEEBDawiLxMbK33sc_dvPuPOaFyAafeKEB4v0R1nQ9P8mYg32vSy_lfqK16KMpF_W77a4LWz5NExTd77AFGSjOSLSGJZ8nvCf3v5YlouAJ8L2kKH/s4000/IMG_20230316_083920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeKQg2CjqeG7yQGBR4coESDd1FUW6rBS8JRN9oalG1GgOnJmMB2fCXB1FtjYIzeJehvGvhZPThDEEBDawiLxMbK33sc_dvPuPOaFyAafeKEB4v0R1nQ9P8mYg32vSy_lfqK16KMpF_W77a4LWz5NExTd77AFGSjOSLSGJZ8nvCf3v5YlouAJ8L2kKH/w300-h400/IMG_20230316_083920.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />*The Horrors of Yellow*<p></p><p>It is not a little thing, the scream of certain yellows, not to me</p><p>Neither is 'that' green I can't even say the name.</p><p>This is the flip side of being a person and artist with #synaesthesia </p><p>Some colours give me severe nausea, they both smell and sound like... Primal disgust</p><p>It is not fear per se</p><p>It is not just disgust</p><p>It feels molecular</p><p>Made husband dig out bush in garden, by back door. It made too much noise for me to exit or enter without more than courage. I have enough to spend my energy on, this yellow had to go 🤣🤣🤣🤢</p><p><br /></p><p>And no I am not crazy</p><p>Not because of the synaesthesia anyway 😜</p><p><br /></p><p>But as I was doing some @bethkempton work in @londonwriterssalon this morning - being a badass #fearlesswriter I accidentally flicked on to a page in my notebook from April last year </p><p>A poem about the need to be carefull with yellow. Double FF'ed</p><p>Full of carefulness</p><p>And I thought... Don't be afraid to change this</p><p>Rewrite</p><p>Explore how I feel now</p><p>Well well</p><p><br /></p><p>Top picture is today's crawling yellow scribbles</p><p>Pic two, below, is the one from last year</p><p><br /></p><p>I have come a LONG way</p><p>And nowhere at all</p><p><br /></p><p>Ha ha ha</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHFMyIbzVkhALsmkWvkrdF8_NdBMYUzcgNpHhK4fbZ6wZRN8AjmQx1VZprIkml4gs253NjofRGY2WFS0CahQbTETrj-rABJTHmEmLevntF_Yt9ZOmnV4G_lStX-FL5KaAANFg_X-nck85OfO-8250fDIO-aBpBFkqx73ZpHpU4OTY4b5aWtEmUJnW/s1920/received_1227262678178439.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHFMyIbzVkhALsmkWvkrdF8_NdBMYUzcgNpHhK4fbZ6wZRN8AjmQx1VZprIkml4gs253NjofRGY2WFS0CahQbTETrj-rABJTHmEmLevntF_Yt9ZOmnV4G_lStX-FL5KaAANFg_X-nck85OfO-8250fDIO-aBpBFkqx73ZpHpU4OTY4b5aWtEmUJnW/w225-h400/received_1227262678178439.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>#illustrator</p><p>#artbysussilouise </p><p>#notthatyellow </p><p>#yellow #damnyou</p><p>#ndbrain </p><p>#neurodiversewriter </p><p>@ellemcnicollofficial by the way is an AMAZING nd writer go buy her books for your kids.</p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-8134000741501384952023-03-08T09:42:00.001+01:002023-03-08T09:42:45.065+01:00Frayed and Fixed <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixazOPdN9kfqt9K3EDvUp9fD3fzW00_xKm1YrbDQ4L0Gnspg_SFc4LckI_K1VVVIBS9NJMPsDn-JxpFSW0pwFF-3ckHcVcInd27ghPQFnnZJPiZPEGfX4tTEl5tG1vutstMx1iB21mWaqmuJJTukr4f1s3WVt2SSYf67XETwzfb3qhuEIpO0BIU1rC/s1564/IMG_20230225_061641.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixazOPdN9kfqt9K3EDvUp9fD3fzW00_xKm1YrbDQ4L0Gnspg_SFc4LckI_K1VVVIBS9NJMPsDn-JxpFSW0pwFF-3ckHcVcInd27ghPQFnnZJPiZPEGfX4tTEl5tG1vutstMx1iB21mWaqmuJJTukr4f1s3WVt2SSYf67XETwzfb3qhuEIpO0BIU1rC/w640-h640/IMG_20230225_061641.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>#sussithepoet</p><p>#nottheGREATpoetbutapoetnonetheless</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my very earliest lessons in creative living was from my mother. She was an incredible creative. Always exploring, developing, trying and learning.</p><p>And she was harsh in her teachings... No matter what age, if she didn't like my painting or story I'd know about it. I both learnt to take criticism and to fear it ha ha ha. </p><p>HOWEVER</p><p>When a total stranger does I appreciate it for what it is - criticism from one's closest is another matter. When I say one's 😜🤣 I mean me. It rips at me and I have to swallow pride along with elephants and stuff NOT to jam myself into a sticky messy old pattern of mum related resistance. And I do that by awareness, I see it, i recognise it, I own it. It's not that I like owning it. It's just... I'm getting old guys, my edges are rounding like my back is and I have learnt that some patterns - they don't leave, better try and live with them. </p><p>HOWEVER 2</p><p>She also taught me this... If you do the best you can - at that exact moment then at that exact moment that is the BEST. Don't be ashamed of a #workinprogress there is no such thing as perfect - just hard work, play and best at the time. </p><p>So.</p><p><br /></p><p>I give you 'Frayed and Fixed'.</p><p><br /></p><p>I might give you a better version later. But right now, this is it. A stream of thought that came to me walking Alnmouth beach at dawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kærlig hilsen</p><p><br /></p><p>Sussi</p><p>#imperfectionROCKS</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0Alnmouth, Alnwick NE66, UK55.3902223 -1.612904727.079988463821152 -36.7691547 83.700456136178843 33.5433453tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-65390234208231305712023-02-02T12:00:00.002+01:002023-02-02T16:48:47.288+01:00All Experience<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FTnGWXDcyzGNKEO4wzrvbYnemja8hNnqvGKn7ddhYZdRBmdNLwQRhzVUsCmMPWQ0nXFQawsN5eiUl1tkuID-MDbmUi5fc1C7MJqvcS3CsQMElc9YWbBff3Q5rxFR3C7E_H1LMXfnfwEKB6lXh1tmJ0p2gYMOAg7t3elVwUiBb3ZwzNO2syrI0G_o/s4160/IMG_20190725_084250.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1FTnGWXDcyzGNKEO4wzrvbYnemja8hNnqvGKn7ddhYZdRBmdNLwQRhzVUsCmMPWQ0nXFQawsN5eiUl1tkuID-MDbmUi5fc1C7MJqvcS3CsQMElc9YWbBff3Q5rxFR3C7E_H1LMXfnfwEKB6lXh1tmJ0p2gYMOAg7t3elVwUiBb3ZwzNO2syrI0G_o/s320/IMG_20190725_084250.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />All experience is part of the path/food for the soul/sparks in the dark/lessons in matter<p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2f854c80-7fff-f241-303a-7a974db0a88e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And we all matter even when we </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> not/if we are not/as we dissolve/after the meaning went</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meaning can be such a fickle thing/senseless thing/tricky thing/yet sometimes a certain thing</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things are rarely what they seem/how/look/the shapes they form around our tongues/not chaos</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chaos is part of the path/all the paths/winds/promises in motion/unsteady hearts</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hearts in roars/murmurs/songs/waves/oceans</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And we all have oceans/we are all oceans/aren’t we</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aren’t we conches/echoes/seeking horizons/chasing horizons/wet</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the ebbs and flows are part of the wave/path/paths/journey</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#Sussithepoet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn't say GOOD poet, famous, successful or even ok - poet</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">but a poet nonetheless. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Some things can not easily be expressed in fully formed sentences, all buttoned-up logic and sense, not by me anyway. The point of human life experience is one such multiplicity, it always astounds me how it then can also be so goddamn BORING. Maybe it is just me. It's probably me. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-38498442213118744672022-10-31T00:22:00.001+01:002022-10-31T00:22:00.236+01:00Will you be my jelly?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>I am an immigrant, not a real member of the club. A pre-brexit interloper. </div><div>I hail from a former fishing town in Denmark but for romantic reasons moved deep into the Yorkshire Dales in 2015. Apart from the insane (!!!) amount of rain and tragic lack of saltwater (I suspect I’m part Selkie/Kraken, if you ask the husband) I do love it here. Yorkshire humour is very Viking.</div><div><br></div><div>HOWEVER</div><div><br></div><div>Seeing as I am a grown axx woman making new friends and building up a network is not as easy as it was when I moved to Germany when I was 19. I already had friends ... Friends I loved more than life, back in Denmark. Over the last seven years I have slowly but steadily met women (mostly, a couple of men too) who I know over time will be to me what my oldest friends are. Funnily enough two of them are Danish. And it is not because they are Danish we are friends, but because they are incredible human beings. </div><div><br></div><div>I have become the 'auntie' to five children, and the 'sister' to one. 'Seasister' to another. I am blessed. By wonderful human beings who have taken me into their lives and entered mine too. But I'm still an interloper. And that is ok. I get it.</div><div>Sometimes I get lonely and want to cuddle up with friends and my grown children in Denmark. Feel that complete hygge where trust is so ingrained in the relationship, no talking is needed.</div><div>But then I feel ungrateful... I should be super happy for what I have here. And I am. But I can't show up unannounced and just hang out. Maybe I am too old for that. Is that it? Or is it just a matter of cultural differences?</div><div><br></div><div>Anyways. A while ago I met a woman I instinctively knew I would love to be friends with. And I didn't quite know how to go about it. Plus I am 50. Basically I could die of old age any moment now (a quote from my best mate Bruce who I sadly lost during covid) So I needed to speed things up.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence the note</div><div><br></div><div>How do you make new friends?</div><div>Can I come to your house and just hang?</div><div>Am I being a fool?</div><div>Will you move to Denmark with me?</div><div><br></div><div>#oldashouses</div><div>#friendships</div><div>#femalefriendships</div><div>#love</div><div>#gratitude</div><div>#willyoubemyfriend</div><div>#hygge</div><div>#hygsomt</div><div>#immigrant </div><div>#sussilouisesmith </div><div>#theenglishare...</div><div>#yorkshire</div><div>#danishgirlinyorkshire</div><div>#writingcommunity </div><div>#shewrites</div>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-85031073529377659392022-10-31T00:18:00.001+01:002022-10-31T00:18:58.012+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Intensely addictive, complicated, appealing and surprisingly educative. Oh and with that glorious dark humour we have come to know and love from Johana.</p><p><br /></p><p>We follow three different women in three different centuries each with their own agenda. Each agenda more relatable/and/MAD than the other... There is a fire in their bellies 🔥 and it is not ready to be tamed ... From the Belle Epoque in France to 21st-century Quebec we are eloquently bewitched and keep turning pages until dawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot recommend this book enough. And it is a FABULOUS translation by #davidwarriner </p><p>Now I live in Yorkshire I truly appreciate a man who can speak anything other than #yorkshire 🤣😂</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're not afraid of losing sleep, like a grizzly story so well researched you can find no flaws that stop your reading flow, in a language that pulls you in... Buy this, get a signed one. . . Keep it. It is the start of a classic series. Bloody #dexter meets #agathachristie and has a threesome with @kelleyarmstrongauthor</p><p>and we're in the front row.</p><p><br /></p><p>#buybleeding #readingisasuperpower #orendabooks #johanagustawsson</p><p>#crimewriter #crimefiction #crimenoir</p><p><br /></p><p>Karen at @orendabooks has GOT to be proud. I know I am. Can't wait to see you @capitalcrime1</p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-18866344716162512762022-06-10T10:46:00.004+02:002022-06-10T11:02:58.575+02:00 The Topography of Tears<p> </p><p>I was carefully caressing old papers</p><p>The kinds we treasure</p><p>Hidden in a wooden box, tobacco, from when smoking was still a rite of passage</p><p>Slips, notes, cuttings, beauties of visceral import</p><p>At the time, and now.</p><p>Amongst them a photocopy, the cover of a book I never managed to own</p><p>‘The Topography of Tears’ RL Fisher</p><p>The paper, velvet from my hands</p><p>unfolding it, smoothing, shedding tears on it, coffee. Re-folded. </p><p>A ritual of sorts </p><p>Under a microscope, in my tears, I am sure you will find crisp palaces.</p><p>Lake District mountains, deep Swiss lakes, filigree Norfolk river runs</p><p>If my life was depicted in tears</p><p>would you see icy oceans?</p><p>Or the lukewarm duckpond Kristine weed in when she was three?</p><p> </p><p>Tears. Single drops or</p><p>cascades running off the Jostedal Glacier? Peeled onion </p><p>ugly-crying? That perfect laughter tear?</p><p>Mine are smoke sodden, from the burning of heathers on high up moors. </p><p>Tears long, black. The 80ies mascara kind. Visible</p><p>anguish</p><p>Dirty plaits braiding, hungry for reshaping. Seas digging into lands, my</p><p>boundaries fluid </p><p>Does the sea cry too? The eaten land, does it bay? Like I do, for you?</p><p>Do tears tear up?</p><p>The possibility of tears’ tears, breaks me and all I can think of</p><p>is you</p><p><br /></p><p>Your last tears, what did they show?</p><p>How can I know when I didn’t make it to catch</p><p>your last breath, your final tear</p><p>I would have let it run on </p><p>to my finger, tasted it. </p><p>Maybe bottled it. Saving the contours of its landscapes for later, </p><p>maybe never in</p><p>fear of craggity sharp, vile Sauron landscapes</p><p> I cry for you, we all do. The glaciers, the seas, lands, me. All the cries. </p><p>Salty flakes in burial crowns and serenades</p><p> </p><p>I fold. In all the ways a woman can. Fold that velvet page too</p><p>Topography of Tears, back in the smokebox</p><div><br /></div><div>#sussithepoet</div><div>#grief</div><div><br /></div><div>Read more about Rose-Lynn Fisher here: <a href="https://www.rose-lynnfisher.com/tears.html " target="_blank">Rose-Lynn Fisher</a></div><div><br /></div><div>This poem was finished with the support from <a href="https://londonwriterssalon.com/">https://londonwriterssalon.com/</a> where I have been turning up at 8AM most days the last months.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4yc6OL3A0KzmssomZdMypq6yMJEG1JdP1T1h0djFaldV-I67cWxFycN65Vpk7KGrp6TRdsH0x_uuBpYfoKxK_7xxX4fiFZ_qmUEnadVMOU4IUlmovZKTLr-sWMmFS346WgOTfWt4lx9Kbv0PkDx4LrkbmyU0WxDaIgMsyzhEt-Q4au5IV2OUZ_Br/s4000/IMG_20220314_143545_Bokeh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4yc6OL3A0KzmssomZdMypq6yMJEG1JdP1T1h0djFaldV-I67cWxFycN65Vpk7KGrp6TRdsH0x_uuBpYfoKxK_7xxX4fiFZ_qmUEnadVMOU4IUlmovZKTLr-sWMmFS346WgOTfWt4lx9Kbv0PkDx4LrkbmyU0WxDaIgMsyzhEt-Q4au5IV2OUZ_Br/s320/IMG_20220314_143545_Bokeh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6joekU23oEii2AqyTB_PVD__MFxV52PS0kylj_CLm4mFXOYm9eAusg40zEgII6cSq4hGcSJGlOuvQG0VSEhapuRVvxg5tXqVt_tM4Z2xxXcYPX0bGaSLm63QGj-AVFbvvC7QhnAVtPCSWZz8USsooU6QWLYnU-2Ct3shDlQiUKfIrGddA_5pgn1fm/s4000/IMG_20220314_143506.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6joekU23oEii2AqyTB_PVD__MFxV52PS0kylj_CLm4mFXOYm9eAusg40zEgII6cSq4hGcSJGlOuvQG0VSEhapuRVvxg5tXqVt_tM4Z2xxXcYPX0bGaSLm63QGj-AVFbvvC7QhnAVtPCSWZz8USsooU6QWLYnU-2Ct3shDlQiUKfIrGddA_5pgn1fm/s320/IMG_20220314_143506.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-38653181072203386132022-04-02T11:58:00.000+02:002022-04-02T11:58:17.828+02:00'Seachanger - Wave Weaver’ exhibition, Ilkley Library, West Yorkshire<p> <img alt="A picture containing person, indoor, wall
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The title is taken from her latest book of poems. Like the book, the exhibition is a marriage of words and pictures, some from her published poetry, others entirely new. It is inspired by Ilkley’s surrounding nature and the sea pounding inside her. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of the paintings and poems were sketched while Sussi ‘safe-distance-walked’ the moors and straggled along the River Wharfe. These creative endeavours are an expression of Sussi’s ever-growing affection for her found home here in England. As she says: ‘</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To me, Ilkley has a unique vibe, a geographical calm which I find immensely inspiring. And Yorkshire people are just the best. What you see is what you get, I love that’ </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But as its title suggests, the exhibition is not just about land and life in and around Ilkley. It is also about the sea and the sights, sounds and smells of the oceans that surround any land. It is a fusion of themes that lock the land with the sea. As the award-winning author Carmen Marcus says of Sussi’s fusion:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'The sea in this collection is no passive soma to life's challenges, it surges, submerges, rocks and grinds the soul just as it does with stones, remaking it smoother, stronger. You will emerge from this body of words changed, joyful, remade.’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sussi is well known for her Scandi-noir humour, commitment to breast-cancer awareness, and straight-talking water-loving ways. She is also a proud ambassador of the research charity ‘Blue Mind’ and shares its dedication to promoting the healing powers of water in any setting. Her work integrates her love of the sea into art and writing. She paints in her trademark colourful naïvistic style and reviewers of her writing praise it for being fearless and to the point. As one critic observes: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘Sussi is a true weaver of word magic, the kind that takes up space under your breastbone and reveals the wonder of the world around you.’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Her creativity reflects this theme: it is a synesthetic endeavour, and expression of her multi-sensory perception of the world, where colours and sounds (and sometimes smells) are experienced as words and shapes.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All Sussi’s art, whether in words or pictures, can be accessed using the hashtag #SussisHappyArtProject. Sussi exhibits across Denmark & Britain, and she uses this platform to create more awareness about the profound impact of art on quality of life and healing. And as she says: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">‘There is always hope. And chocolate. Just a bit. Not enough for the sugar-police to track you down.’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are very pleased to have Sussi Louise share her new work with us here in Ilkley Library. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BIO: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sussi-Louise is Danish-born and bred. Her early life was spent close to and on the blue waters of the seas around the island of Sjælland. She now resides in Wharfedale and combines her enduring love of the ocean with the calm, tranquillity and rugged beauty of Yorkshire’s Dales and rivers. A career in Danish academia overlaps her work as a creative artist and writer, especially of poetry. Exhibitions of her work take place on both sides of the North Sea. Sussi’s arts express a unique fusion and imagery of the land and the surrounding seas, in words, pictures, emotions and people. The Danes love their salt and Sussi is a self-confessed salty-liquorice monster. The stuff is hard to come by, but luckily the community of Danes in the area help each other out. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instagram: Sussi.Louise</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: SmithySuzy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blog: www.livsmalerier.blogspot.dk</span></p><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9pWxiNrmF3Cpi2tei8k0kH6nOqStq6HQgyOaTOd6eEkAIP0yz0y6bdEx2OjxAOTGlbm4or_IbUb1P35Kb9qBUYqvdRx4rXKGe9_eKCRVBEY17QfWc13Zvqp_n9d0P4rI32fr_JdFSToLNCJf7LFPToP7-O6llii2j0ByGSuCGOAuIuSEFZ1fOFxQ/s4000/IMG_20220401_175445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9pWxiNrmF3Cpi2tei8k0kH6nOqStq6HQgyOaTOd6eEkAIP0yz0y6bdEx2OjxAOTGlbm4or_IbUb1P35Kb9qBUYqvdRx4rXKGe9_eKCRVBEY17QfWc13Zvqp_n9d0P4rI32fr_JdFSToLNCJf7LFPToP7-O6llii2j0ByGSuCGOAuIuSEFZ1fOFxQ/s320/IMG_20220401_175445.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-68814365657747901012022-03-18T16:53:00.005+01:002022-03-30T09:46:02.756+02:00Wave Walker<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTWn01aDoqL3e8zke7ZxePOpAaDWKcDeuOXzdZAAFK1UWKFa937N7Xvq3FagfNSNlQ_KWg2l7sr1tznWJYU_PBV94upYmdXQMfBy7qW9E2AGG2mjxDlXTCCVWsGti6s7DPHz3riRDfTmIkV1nZrZ1vKMmGTCRtlvV81jG33gK4LwiA1Ad_vB2SwpY0=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="1440" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTWn01aDoqL3e8zke7ZxePOpAaDWKcDeuOXzdZAAFK1UWKFa937N7Xvq3FagfNSNlQ_KWg2l7sr1tznWJYU_PBV94upYmdXQMfBy7qW9E2AGG2mjxDlXTCCVWsGti6s7DPHz3riRDfTmIkV1nZrZ1vKMmGTCRtlvV81jG33gK4LwiA1Ad_vB2SwpY0=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />🌊<p></p><p>First I wrote the sea, the blues in me</p><p>Then I wrote the longing, the dreams, my love. </p><p>Wrote them in acrylic and inks</p><p>Aquamarine, whites and indigo</p><p>Then wrote in words. Seven words</p><p>Just seven in a whole hour</p><p>And I was happier than I've been for ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Wave Walker, </p><p>Licking horizons with every step"</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you all you wonderful humans who show up every morning at the #londonwritershour who write hundreds, sometimes thousands of words. Who stare, sometimes the whole hour, out of the window, or write your morning pages. Thank you for being there. Has made a massive difference. Thank you for that. In a world of so many wars and so much illness and suffering, hours like these are precious. </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, they are</p><p>I hope they are for you too.</p><p>I am happy with seven words and at least seven blues. #bluemind happy. Which is the BEST kind</p><p>Ok, wait...</p><p>Top three at least</p><p>Being in love with someone who's in love with you is a mountain climber of a happy</p><p>Also</p><p>Sex, Coffee, Chocolate and Salty Liquorice. Although, they can all be done by the sea. So, I guess ....</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways</p><p>Point is</p><p><br /></p><p>#gratefulforyou</p><p>#happy @brenebrown pretty sure blue mind happy is a feeling ❤️♥️👌🏅🥳🥰😍</p><p>#gratitude</p><p>#theseathesea</p><p>#seatherapy</p><p>#waterhealing</p><p>#paintingwithsaltwater</p><p>#sussithepoet</p><p>#sussishappyartproject</p><p>#actionforhappiness </p><p>#payitforward</p><p>#lovingsomeonewithcancer </p><p>And #cancersucks but #loverocks</p><p>#MPNawareness #leukemia #PolycythemiaVera #breastcancerawareness #cancerawareness</p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-21389890047355232522021-12-28T16:53:00.004+01:002022-03-09T09:14:12.197+01:00Rupture of the human mind <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHEZOZMKNExFWdiYJ5Rq3t6DsSupPiHkHp0zfDN0PtToiECI41dFZguFUjTeh_x3vgOCOdP-PpFAxPSYLQODcuopYrfYaTLCtG0gm1m_8KMxX3QWIxHSyNBN6Y0GInkGmIZr-DO43-8YQz7px72PysUsU0UQbuefAyKMy_RwSynGeSpLATddowCqCK=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHEZOZMKNExFWdiYJ5Rq3t6DsSupPiHkHp0zfDN0PtToiECI41dFZguFUjTeh_x3vgOCOdP-PpFAxPSYLQODcuopYrfYaTLCtG0gm1m_8KMxX3QWIxHSyNBN6Y0GInkGmIZr-DO43-8YQz7px72PysUsU0UQbuefAyKMy_RwSynGeSpLATddowCqCK=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Since that is all I have</p><p>No sea-fret breath</p><p>no gills no dorsal fins</p><p>All I have is this rupture</p><p>Recultured draft of stories beyond words</p><p>Just </p><p>Space between the abyss-like crack ripping open</p><p>Ripping time off</p><p>Stuck in salty coagulated blood plaster-like ripping </p><p>All the likes </p><p>All the ruptures</p><p>Sand dissolving under my feet on beaches I can no longer visit</p><p>Water stinking crystal clear into eyes that no longer can see them </p><p>Just feel them</p><p>Crisscross cutting wintered skin </p><p>Writings of longing</p><p><br /></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-65031321348670727032021-11-30T08:16:00.005+01:002024-02-05T14:57:17.604+01:00'Seachanger - Wave Weaver' New Book Out Now<p> 'Seachanger - Wave Weaver' the second book in the Blue trilogy is out on December 1st 2021</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2wJRu-GQx8o/YaXLUAivlPI/AAAAAAADhWk/9ws0PPRLRkoUZBITpsG-uuymLVeGBVLYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/isbn%2B9780995751248.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2wJRu-GQx8o/YaXLUAivlPI/AAAAAAADhWk/9ws0PPRLRkoUZBITpsG-uuymLVeGBVLYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/isbn%2B9780995751248.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have created another book of poetry and flash fiction. It is as seashaken as the first, but in this, the focus is on the changing. Change of circumstances, perspectives, a debate of how we perceive reality, realities; time and times past and future. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As ever the healing point of origin, for me, is the salty sea. But not any sea. Sea I can touch. The poem 'Not my sea' gets into the meat of that. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is also a book of irreverent flippancy and unapologetic swearing at all things cancer and illness. Not a pity party. More like a KBO fest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The book starts with the poem </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>And So it Begins</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a moonrise</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">kissing the edges of the eastern sea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">harvest sized</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red horizon seeking me</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am right here,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as ever.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Open arms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ready for the first rush of night</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is how it always begins</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a moonrise,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by a sea</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and my open heart</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We all weave our tapestries with what we have got. If you can't make it pretty, might as well make it good fun. This weaving of words is coloured by a year of funerals I could not attend, coffee I drank and all the beautiful people who helped us through the last few years of navigating cancer and COVID restrictions. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Disclaimer: If you are triggered by talk of grave illness, swearing, death, and making sense of all of this using dark humour, blue language and growing fins, scales and possibly gills. THIS IS NOT FOR YOU.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However if you like a bit of Scandinavian WTH, bedazzled with Tjasa Owen Seascape painting magic... buy it. Read it, write to me, call me, just don't turn up at my house, that would be weird, dude.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">£ 11 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can acquire this salt cut collection directly from Galleri Livsmaleri by sending an email gallerilivsmaleri@gmail.com international shipping £4 UK shipping free</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Or order via</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Https://www.waterstones.com/book/seachanger/sussi-louise-smith/9780995751248</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Or</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">https://www.grovebookshopbooks.com/product/seachanger-wave-weaver/</div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MBI9Cufq94o/YaXPFnFOP4I/AAAAAAADhWw/-s1CJsQlnBIgZnpQUt_uepOrSrfzMpmPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1116/Sussi%2BSeachanger.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1116" height="239" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MBI9Cufq94o/YaXPFnFOP4I/AAAAAAADhWw/-s1CJsQlnBIgZnpQUt_uepOrSrfzMpmPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Sussi%2BSeachanger.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ztr_oB2z1U/YaXPFpmuHaI/AAAAAAADhW0/XpVdufWpezg2Y0fugZQtNgow_ycF3fMywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1666/THe%2Bsoul%2Bof%2Ba%2Bship.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1666" data-original-width="1334" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ztr_oB2z1U/YaXPFpmuHaI/AAAAAAADhW0/XpVdufWpezg2Y0fugZQtNgow_ycF3fMywCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/THe%2Bsoul%2Bof%2Ba%2Bship.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-47G4hkVqFic/YaXPFUp0VII/AAAAAAADhWs/QIruLzr9PGAgPV2QCA9KMtO9cjn2rcPEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s581/tjasa%2Bowen%2BThis%2Bone.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="477" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-47G4hkVqFic/YaXPFUp0VII/AAAAAAADhWs/QIruLzr9PGAgPV2QCA9KMtO9cjn2rcPEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/tjasa%2Bowen%2BThis%2Bone.jpg" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tjasa Owen www.tjasaowen.com</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-83280700369278497952021-10-28T09:32:00.002+02:002022-04-27T17:29:49.367+02:00Painting with saltwater<p><span style="color: white;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ERU9wcbUO-Q/YXpQwRshBWI/AAAAAAADe6w/W5yCiNYoBeEGRf3PNVxl6MNDSLl-yLAyQCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210922_165539.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ERU9wcbUO-Q/YXpQwRshBWI/AAAAAAADe6w/W5yCiNYoBeEGRf3PNVxl6MNDSLl-yLAyQCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210922_165539.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: white;"><br /></span><p></p><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><br /></span></a></h2><h2><span style="color: white;"><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Seascape
Painting</span></a><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><div><a name="_Toc85957932"><span style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><div>Painting the sea</div><div><br /></div><div>So, I can smell the salt</div><div><br /></div><div>Hold the rough waves to heart</div><div><br /></div><div>It's right here</div><div><br /></div><div>In my hands</div><div><br /></div><div>A brushstroke dance,</div><div><br /></div><div>across paper and pulse</div><div><br /></div><div>I am</div><div><br /></div><div>the sea</div><div><br /></div><div>Trapped by dales</div><div><br /></div><div>And low-level river lulls</div><div><br /></div><div>Breaking free impossible</div><div><br /></div><div>This chronicle inaudible</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>So, I paint the sea</div><div><br /></div><div>To smell the salty air</div><div><br /></div><div>Hold the rough waves to heart</div><div><br /></div><div>Ripples fluidly connected</div><div><br /></div><div>Pigments intertwined</div><div><br /></div><div>Outshined</div><div><br /></div><div>only by deepfelt memories</div><div><br /></div><div>I know are almost here</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm not done</div><div><br /></div><div>A brushstroke more</div><div><br /></div><div>A dance before</div><div><br /></div><div>the new moon calms</div><div><br /></div><div>this longing</div><div><br /></div><div>So,</div><div><br /></div><div> I keep painting the sea</div><div><br /></div><div>with the sea</div><div><br /></div><div>Bottles filled while paddling,</div><div><br /></div><div>holy saltwater</div><div><br /></div><div>When I run out, and the need, the urge,</div><div><br /></div><div> is breath-swallowingly desperate</div><div><br /></div><div>I sprinkle.</div><div><br /></div><div>Little flakes of dried island waters</div><div><br /></div><div>and watch them dissolve</div></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-daxF_c-5zZs/YXpR02d8OBI/AAAAAAADe7A/h7WzATnuSsgTSkqnFp_-pM6-VTcIfwGhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1448" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-daxF_c-5zZs/YXpR02d8OBI/AAAAAAADe7A/h7WzATnuSsgTSkqnFp_-pM6-VTcIfwGhQCLcBGAsYHQ/w283-h400/0001.jpg" width="283" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">New book of Salty Poetry out Dec 2021</span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYZiJ7XfBkY/YXpQTOuzPTI/AAAAAAADe6k/iLDikhfIsP4gvRjmsRAQwBGjDrV-9fE0gCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210918_180732.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Painting my way</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Though a rather uncomfortable</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hospital stay</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sT6EeYDlz4E/YOjcALNvJyI/AAAAAAADVNI/rI_Wen4wYFMiFCQpfMG-TZWDokq5ljbRACPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210707_104159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sT6EeYDlz4E/YOjcALNvJyI/AAAAAAADVNI/rI_Wen4wYFMiFCQpfMG-TZWDokq5ljbRACPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210707_104159.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2CNXHifhxz8/YOjcAPLkPGI/AAAAAAADVNI/ZquZcqQJ8Ss6ekX1iYuFAO_ZtDI_sz4bQCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210707_100829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2CNXHifhxz8/YOjcAPLkPGI/AAAAAAADVNI/ZquZcqQJ8Ss6ekX1iYuFAO_ZtDI_sz4bQCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210707_100829.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZLF97MmMqibECd4FaFreopUwVW4OFmUR_YLtOvegik4AtLe1v-CwDde6r4OymD5nGIRGizJZV8LW2cDvXq-sbd2gw8cMxN4TE8y3aWdHA_ZVQOPVE4ZNLarEbi5O1yb4tZEbLitjfZtQjz8jNdI9g-BeMAKgvPk9ZiMovi2aUg6hocf_qh5hpDoM/s320/IMG_20210419_111426.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>We do not eat the Kraken</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All that water looking ironclad</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Steely grey against the lightning storm above</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Only movement </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">our chests as we breathe</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Not a wind but for the air we let out</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It's unsettling this mirroresque sea against </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">the raging of skies so high above we </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">can only see the flashes in the loom,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Hardly a boom reaches us</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The slow flattened surface disfiguring that half crested moon</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">reminding us of a golden octopus we once tried to eat in Greece</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Arms contorted</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Now white against the black płate it had been thrown onto</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Menacing it looked</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Blaming</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I remember thinking that had this creature been the size of a house </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">it would be exactly what I imagined the Kraken to be</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have a soft spot for the Kraken </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Naturally, we didn't actually eat it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">One doesn't eat magical creatures</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Monsters or not, they deserve respect. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">And time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We eat our words, our hearts, our pride. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">But not the Kraken</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">#sussithepoet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">#bluemind</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fq-8nccr02U/YIXdLkaC0_I/AAAAAAADOYE/IepOeZAV5tEb2_lw_8rTdRUSlSQTPvP7wCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210411_200132.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fq-8nccr02U/YIXdLkaC0_I/AAAAAAADOYE/IepOeZAV5tEb2_lw_8rTdRUSlSQTPvP7wCPcBGAsYHg/s320/IMG_20210411_200132.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-40361456082461404852021-04-07T19:41:00.000+02:002021-04-07T19:41:00.012+02:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BwHzWJBUElI/YG3umJrqRXI/AAAAAAADNd8/3M4m_ZXfJ74l6smf5BKHEMIaB6IowQBiwCPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210407_145529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BwHzWJBUElI/YG3umJrqRXI/AAAAAAADNd8/3M4m_ZXfJ74l6smf5BKHEMIaB6IowQBiwCPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20210407_145529.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7360676976038579072.post-82939691798338481562021-04-01T10:49:00.002+02:002021-04-02T09:38:06.839+02:00The Humans Who Inspire Me: Tjasa Owen<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">www.tjasaowen.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An American seascape painter who continuously inspire me by playing with my colours</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ok, not MY colours, but the colours that vibrationally signify my true self</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maybe yours too?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyways, I do not know how, but in a previous life I think Tjasa might have been my favourite muse, an angel in disguise, possibly a mermaid sister</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Every</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Single</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel seen when I look at her paintings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a really beautiful thing, feeling seen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Invisibility was always a theme of mine growing up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Double-edged sword kindafink</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">wanting desperately to achieve that perfect level of clear water blend-in-ness</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cherishing the ability to disappear</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but also hungering, starving to be seen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Really seen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As the person I was. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had a strong sense of self even as a child</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I knew I was not truly seen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Loved, but not for who I really was. Does that make sense?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2dtSKrrcJgg/YGWHzZ8xCrI/AAAAAAADNFM/lRiz4PZtZb862nzLdA-D5POrOcZ7AgIdACPcBGAsYHg/s2400/Screenshot_20210401-074839.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2dtSKrrcJgg/YGWHzZ8xCrI/AAAAAAADNFM/lRiz4PZtZb862nzLdA-D5POrOcZ7AgIdACPcBGAsYHg/w288-h640/Screenshot_20210401-074839.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyways, what happens sometimes, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">when I see certain constellations of colours, like the ones Tjasa use, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">is that a song forms in my head</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a seashanty-like wave of nodes and words kissing my synaesthesia brain</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">like the painting above did:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'Sea Grit'</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hYeoVIRgwcE/YGbG9pCXOTI/AAAAAAADNNQ/3pWy1KR-K7su8MFOdv802XQf5Si0hfJTACPcBGAsYHg/s4000/IMG_20210401_074430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hYeoVIRgwcE/YGbG9pCXOTI/AAAAAAADNNQ/3pWy1KR-K7su8MFOdv802XQf5Si0hfJTACPcBGAsYHg/w300-h400/IMG_20210401_074430.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Sussi Louise Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05706604324374395390noreply@blogger.com0