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Maria Jones-Phillips

“The self does not divide but multiplies in incongruous ways, incongruous to you that is. It forms within its own nature a potential wealth of other personality types that indeed populate your conception of the world and form those friendly faces that you meet within your so-called day-to-day experience. Life is not intrinsic to the manifestation of these other selves, for life is a term that can only apply to the human construct. We as your caretakers so to speak are just beyond the remit of your understanding of time. We perch atop the fence of your awareness like crows bringing the warmth and wisdom of the dark to the brightness of your cave. We bring light to you in ways that you do not presently comprehend. We furnish your worlds with cherished thoughts and indeterminable wisdoms that cloud your skies and pepper the land with things to look at, admire and experience as extensions of your selves. Your personhoods expressed through nature and creature-hood, through blustering winds and swelling tides. The moods of the earth match your own national and individual moods. One does not follow on from the other but all swim happily in unison within the tide of memories that link you all. A body of memories that is as vital as any living organism, of which the you that you know forms an important strand.”

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Cosmetics 101 – Giving Your Teeth the Charcoal Treatment

I first heard about using charcoal in cosmetic products some years ago, but was only familiar with it being used in soap as a great cleanser for the face. Since then it seems to have sprung onto the mainstream beauty market in leaps and bounds, precisely as a facial cleanser, having been picked up by […]Read Post ›

Making Your Own Cosmetics 101

While I’m contemplating what jewellery project to commit to next I’ve been making my own cosmetics. About six years ago I stopped buying commercial beauty products and began making my own, both for health and economic reasons. I’ve made everything from shampoo, conditioner, body butter, lip balms, perfume, face masks, soap, massage oils, to bath-bombs. I even […]Read Post ›

It Wasn’t Supposed to do That.

I shall be honest and admit that I am a bit of a stickler for using the best quality products when it comes to making jewellery. You kind of have to be if you’re marketing couture, bespoke jewellery. You certainly don’t want your masterpiece to fall to pieces once it has left the soft feathered […]Read Post ›

Loose Ends and New Adventures

I’ve taken a break from street photography for a while in order to focus on making jewellery again. It’s been about a year and half since I made anything, with my previous efforts involving an as yet unfinished peyote weave, beaded bracelet. In fact I have several incomplete jewellery projects that have been sitting in […]Read Post ›

Ice Cream Standoff

  There was a time when I was fairly aversed to Warholian-style pop art. I used to believe that a photograph shouldn’t be tampered with, but what did I know? I was just caught up in the throes of social convention much like everyone else, it’s what I grew up with, despite my dislike of […]Read Post ›

The Art and the Artifice of a Borg Culture

  What looks great on a big screen doesn’t necessarily translate so well to the tiny screens that we have become accustomed to in the ever evolving, technology dependent procession of our daily lives. My concern is that this increasing dependency on handheld devices will indefatigably change the nature of art completely. Photography in particular […]Read Post ›

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The Creation of the Beautiful Borg

Today’s project has been to transform another of my many Venice shots into a work of painterly art. I settled on an image from my archives taken on my second trip to Venice back in August 2013. It is a shot of a window display of one of the umpteen mask shops in between St. […]Read Post ›

The Making of King George

There is something of the opulence of the Victorian/Art Nouveau era that I like about this particular version of my shot of King George V. The flaming oranges are reminiscent of the works of Pre-Raphaelite painters Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Frederick Lord Leighton, and Edward Burn Jones. King George V would have been a late contemporary, […]Read Post ›

Compositional Devices: Phi, The Rule of Thirds, The Golden Ratio/Section/Rule.

This week’s photo challenge is really beginning to bug me. Not least because the rule wasn’t really explained correctly in the challenge post. The way that the Rule of Thirds has been explained as an artistic principle, traditionally, is that one has to imagine a grid of nine squares dividing an image, with each line […]Read Post ›

An Artist’s Journal: Sweet Sorrow

There isn’t a moment at which I don’t consider photography art. Within that very broad remit, anything goes as far as I’m concerned. Last Saturday, which happened to be Valentine’s Day, I took myself off to London to watch a West End show I’d been coveting since last November. I’d decided that as it was […]Read Post ›

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Quiet Contemplation

Quiet Contemplation

The day is long as it is wide, But if you measure it with your finger, It’ll only be ‘this’ long. Not quite long enough, But enough to point to that which you desire. I want that. And that, And that, But not that. And so, I sit in quiet contemplation Of a life yet […]

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The Elizabeth Taylor Effect

The Elizabeth Taylor Effect

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Raw, Naked Art

Working in Monochrome.

Working in Monochrome.

Originally posted on Maria Jones-Phillips Art:
As an artist I usually prefer to work in colour. However, as with photography, when devising a composition, one of the important questions to ask yourself is: How do I best represent my subject? Sometimes, monochrome is a better fit. Let me explain why. Family – Graphite on bristol…

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