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Discover the Mysterious Treasures of Swedenborg House
Swedenborg House in Bloomsbury, London is full of mysterious items relating to the life of eighteenth century Swedish polymath and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg. It’s an extraordinary place! My leporello of images and text will encourage children/families to visit and explore the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Drawings, Handwriting, Sketchbooks, Work in progress, Workshops
Tagged astronomer, Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell, Cold Bath Fields, eighteenth century, inventor, leporello, London, map, museums, mystery, notebooks, relics, Swedenborg, Swedenborg House, Swedenborg's skull, treasure hunt, workshops
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Sally Kindberg in Dorset
Lovely to see snowdrops en route to the wild Dorset coast, where stormy winds and rough seas battered the coast. Stayed again in the mermaid house before the owners move, and had a look round Linzi West‘s studio before that moves too.
Posted in Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged Bridport, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport market, Dorset, hats, Linzi West, Lyme Regis, notebooks, Orion, Paul Blow, Snook hatters
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Sally Kindberg’s Knee Diary
Thanks to NHS and kind friends and family I’m on my feet (both of them) again …
Posted in Handwriting, Sketchbooks
Tagged A&E, cafes, diary, drawings, Gehstock Fischer, George Orwell, knee diary, NHS, notebook drawings, Royal Free Hospital
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Sally Kindberg’s Evening Standard feature about Elf School in Iceland.
It’s that time of year again, when ghouls and ghosts and all things strange wander the neighbourhood – some of them not even in costume. I’ve drawn many of them, and even written and illustrated a book about them. called Draw It! Monsters. … Continue reading
Behind the scenes in 3 specimen preservation departments of the Natural History Museum, London
The Grant Museum‘s annual outing for 2016 was a visit behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum in some of its specimen preservation departments, guided by six experts in their field. We were divided up into groups of about ten, including Jack Ashby … Continue reading
Weekend visit to Lyme Regis, Dorset weekend
It wasn’t surprising the floor of my room sloped and creaked – the house was partly constructed of ancient ships’ timbers, and one windy night it felt like my bedroom was straining at its moorings. My room was scented by a vase … Continue reading
Margate – Dreamland, Wall of Death and Turner’s paintbox
Visit to the seaside and Turner Contemporary to see Grayson Perry again, distracted by JMW Turner‘s paintbox crammed with everything an artist might need including a spot of morphia to treat a pesky stomach ache. As I had one at … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg’s visit to Keswick in the Lake District.
Last week I ran three days of workshops at Keswick’s quirky and fascinating Pencil Museum (see previous blog post) housed in what had been the pencil factory’s canteen. The empty factory still stands, looking very dilapidated – pencils are produced in a different part of Cumbria now … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged 'Q', 555 bus, Beatrix Potter, Brockle Beck, Castlerigg Manor, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cat Bells, Charles Fraser Smith, Coleridge, daffodils, de Quincy, Derwent coloured pencils, Derwent pencils, Derwentwater, Dove Cottage, Franciscan Friars, Grasmere, James Bond, Keswick, Lake District, Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread, spy's pencil, Squirrel Nutkin, St Cuthbert, St Herbert, St Herbert's Island, St Oswald's church, the Cumberland Pencil, the Pencil Museum, William Wordsworth
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