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Buildings and Structures

Factories, Houses, Roads, Churches, Rooftops, Bridges, Multi-storey buildings, Skyscrapers, Railway stations, Mills, Arenas, Silos, Windmills, Sheds, Stone walls, Fences, etc.

Nature

Reflection: Abandon Yourself to Mother Nature

Want to escape into nature? Come with me today where we take time to reflect on structures that have been given up by humans into the protective and comforting embrace of Mother Nature. Image: Cool Relief by Anne Newman

At Home

At Home with John Wylie in His Shed

It is a very exciting opportunity to visit an artist in their shed and get a close up and personal view of what goes on in the mind of a talented person who is driven to share their view of the world, their way. Today we visit a subscriber John Wylie who lives in South Australia.

Dynasty

Past Post: No 4 June 2018

Our Past Post today revisits the beautiful island of Malta as we take a look at the Schranz dynasty of artists.

Photography

Colin Morris takes us to Melbourne 2020

We have never seen our city streets empty of people and whilst it is disturbing it does give us a chance to observe and note the beauty of the buildings and their surroundings. Today's photos of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia are brought to you thanks to the photography of Colin Morris.

Senses

Heightened Senses

Much of our world has changed irreversibly but our senses remain to be honed to perfection. Today we begin to learn how to better see, hear, touch, smell and taste the immediate world around us. Photos by Caroline.

Renaissance

Giotto's Arena Chapel

Giotto’s Arena Chapel located in Padua, Italy which is filled with the most wonderful frescos and Giotto’s most celebrated work, completed around 1305. Credits:TrustandTravel

Mailbag

Mail Bag: April

Bringing news from subscribers including the Bungendore Wood Work Gallery (Canberra), Regents Park (London), Fortuna Villa (Bendigo). Image: Mural by Doris Lee (commons.wikimedia.org)

Buildings and Structures

Rooftops of Paris

By sharing some of my photos of the rooftops of Paris I hope you will be inspired to look more closely at the best feature (in my opinion) of a building. We also look at rooftop paintings by Van Gogh, Evgeny Lushpin, Malcom Macdonald,

Buildings and Structures

Rooftops

Rooftops are everywhere in our world but how often do we look up, or down, and marvel at how amazing they are. Some images from my own paintings and photographs.

Travel

The Windmills of Kinderdijk

Kinderdijk, located 15 miles east of Rotterdam, Holland; a UNESCO-listed site that boasts 19 pristinely preserved windmills. The windmills were erected in the 1600s to drain the Alblasserwaard polders, at the confluence of the Lek & Noord rivers.

Photography

The Rooftops of Oxford

I know it seems strange with all the glorious buildings that go to make up the remarkably picturesque city of Oxford but it was the skyline of the buildings and especially the rooftops that caught my eye when I was visiting recently.

Buildings and Structures

The English Mill

Discussing English mills especially Melbury Abbas and Cann Mill owned by my family for hundreds of years. Paintings of mills by Derek Ogden, John Constable,

Performing Arts

Rowena Cade: Sculpting a Theatre

Rowena Cade sculpted Minack Theatre out of the granite cliff face in Porthcurno, Cornwall. She built the theatre herself with the help of her gardner Billy Rawlings in 1931–32.

Travel

Dartmoor National Park: A Kaleidoscope of Light and Colour

Celebrating the kaleidoscope of light and colour in Dartmore National Park. Also paintings by Henry Jenkins, James Martin, John Christian, George Trevor, Matthew Gibson, Anna Curnow.

Gold

Sovereign Hill

Sovereign Hill is a 30-acre outdoor museum, which appeals to overseas visitors, as well as Australians, discovering a unique, living experience of Australia’s gold mining history, presented with a rare degree of accuracy and integrity.

Gold

Eureka! Gold found In Ballarat

Visit Ballarat, in the heart of the Victorian Goldfields. Anne Newman hails from Bendigo, which also developed on the back of the gold rush. What I love about the Goldfield towns is their wonderful history and the legacy we see in the majestic buildings which remain today.

Tribute

Montsalvat

The Jorgensen family played a significant role in the development of Melbourne's Art World. In 1934 Sigmund's father Justus Jorgensen and his partner Lillian Smith, established an artist's colony (Montsalvat) in Eltham, an outer Eastern suburb of Melbourne.

Buildings and Structures

The Scheveningen Story continues

The Kurhaus of Scheveningen. A model of the Kurhaus of Scheveningen { Grand Hotel Amrath Kurhaus ).The Kurhaus was built between 1884 and 1885 by the German architects **Johann Friedrich Henkenhaf** and **Friedrich Ebert**.

Dolls

Dolls Houses

Antiques Roadshow featured one of Britain's oldest and most valuable doll's house worth £150,000 . The house was made in 1705 on the Isle of Dogs for a Miss E Westbrook. What is remarkable is that it has remained within the original family for over 300 years and in its original condition.

Mailbag

Mail about Fountains

Varland Fountain in Bull Street Bendigo has been restored. fountain at Schloss Lindenhof, in Bavaria which was one of Ludwig II castles. Praetorian Fountain in Palermo, Sicily it represents the most important landmark of Piazza Pretoria

Architecture

Ibrahim Khudeira sets us thinking

They walked past the limonaia and on Viale Della Meridiana. Henry asked Robert to sit with him at a trattoria in front of Basilica di Santo Spirito. Robert obliged. They both ordered Campari and tonic.

Architecture

Architects Elevate the Club Sandwich

Food is so important to us that Architects have modelled their creations on it. This year the World Building of the Year is based on a Club Sandwich as seen in today's Hero Image. Below are two more views of the winning building

Mailbag

More Window Art

window art

Gardens

The Glorious Gardens of Capability Brown

Introducing you to the gardens designed by C18th English landscape architect Capability Brown. Includes Stowe, Buckinghamshire, Croome Court, Worcestershire, Image: The atmospheric Grecian Valley at Stowe with the Temple of Concord and Victory in the distance (National Trust Images 1097891)

Architecture

Women in Architecture

female architects brought to you by Artsy.