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A wall panel design at Suntec City.
*Note: More pics of Architectural, Interior and Exterior Designs in my Architectural, Interior and Exterior Designs Album.
One of the highlights of our educational trip was a visit to the Derix Studio just outside Wiesbaden.
Here the highly skilled team of craftsmen translate the designs of numerous German and international artists into completed stained glass windows (unlike in the UK where most of us tend to translate our own designs into glass, in Germany the artist usually delegates to a highly professional team who works under their specifications, partly as a result of the much greater percentage of new commissions in glass, both ecclesiastical and increasingly in the secular market, an approach largely ignored in the UK).
Touring the studio enabled us to witness the team in action creating contemporary architectural artworks in various stages. It was also here we were able to meet the renowned artist Johannes Schreiter who gave a talk on his work.
Merry Christmas - here's a new festive pattern for you to colour in. Click this link to find the pdf version: www.patternsforcolouring.com
I forgot I had this. It was just a grab shot from our garden this summer. If I had realized just what was going on in there, I would have done much more with it. I can't even remember what it's called.
Pattern on a tree carved out by insects. Seen on the path down from La Viershöhe to Königsruhe (King's Rest) in Bodetal (Bode Valley, or Bode Gorge) between Thale and Treseburg in the Harz mountains, Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), Germany.
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The Bode Gorge (German: Bodetal) is a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long ravine that forms part of the Bode valley between Treseburg and Thale in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The German term, Bodetal (literally "Bode Valley"), is also used in a wider sense to refer to the valleys of the Warme and Kalte Bode rivers that feed the River Bode.
At the Bode Gorge, the River Bode, which rises on the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, has cut deeply into the hard Ramberg granite rock. The ravine is about 140 m deep at Treseburg and some 280 m deep at Thale where it breaks out into the Harz Foreland. The Bode Gorge was designated a nature reserve as early as 5 March 1937; its boundaries being subsequently expanded. With an area of, currently 473.78 hectares (1,170.7 acres), it is one of the largest nature reserves in Saxony-Anhalt.
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Harz weekend June 2012
St Mary, Ashwell, Rutland
I'd set off from Stamford that morning aiming to visit Essendine, Rutland's most easterly point, and Whissendine, its most westerly, as well as all the churches in between. I had reached Whissendine, and so I had come as far west as it was possible to come in Rutland. I was less than a mile from the Leicestershire border. The village windmill across the valley to the west looked attractive, but was time to head home. The road east back to Stamford was a straight one with three more churches to punctuate it. It was a short distance to the first of these, in Ashwell.
An aisled church, not terribly distinctive from the outside apart from the bands given it by William Butterfield, and a lovely art nouveau lychgate. However, there is plenty of interest inside, with a feel of the 13th and 14th Centuries and tombs and memorials of the date to go with them, including a rather haunting wooden effigy of a knight and a stone one of a priest. Of even more interest, the 19th and early 20th Century glass, a window by the Paris workshop of Alfred Gerente, who provided a lot of glass to Ely Cathedral and also those extraordinary windows at Feltwell in Norfolk, and best of all a Ninian Comper window, unusual in that it depicts the face of a real person, something I've not seen Comper do before. Interestingly, the Rutland Local History and Record Society book Stained Glass in Rutland Churches says the window is signed, but I couldn't see it. All fascinating stuff, anyway.
The road fell away to the east and then I was faced with a steep climb, something I could have done without after more than forty-odd miles, into the large village of Cottesmore. Surprisingly perhaps, Cottesmore is the third largest settlement in Rutland after Oakham and Uppingham, bigger even than Ketton or Langham. This is because it includes some of the base housing for RAF Cottesmore, from which the village takes much of its character.
The church is a fairly typical restored English village church - glass by Clayton & Bell and Powell & Sons, tiled floors, modern chairs, all tastefully well-kept and furnished. The RAF memorial chapel is in the north aisle, including a soberingly large number of memorial plaques to flight crews lost from the 1960s up to the 1990s. The most striking feature is the font, a pretty 15th Century octagonal bowl set on a great Norman lump of a base with reliefs of the crucifixion and a blessing bishop. All in all, I thought the church suited its village well, and was obviously well-used and loved.
And now, before heading back into Stamford which was now barely ten miles off I had a small matter of one of England's most spectacular churches to deal with.
I have an enduring fascination with patterns, particularly those on floors or ceilings. The grey and white bathroom tiles in the Seattle Medical and Dental Building make me feel as if I'm in a black and white film.
Close-up of the lights on the Christmas tree in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. I did one of my favorite tricks of jiggling the camera around while the shot was exposing just to see what sort of patterns and effects I could get.
Here I turned the camera slowly in a semicircle.
Better late than never! Our dogwood is blooming and I can't help but notice all the patterns from minute to large.
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