Dorry Spikes - Illustrator http://www.dotspikes.com Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:56:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Nadolig Llawen http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=314 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=314#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:56:24 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=314 nadolig ]]> http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=314 0 Songs to draw to http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=293 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=293#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:54:57 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=293 Ah! NPR gives me some good sounds to brighten up a mizzley day.

Edward Sharpe at Newport.

]]> http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=293 0 First Light Project screening http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=287 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=287#comments Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:16:17 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=287 In March I worked as an artist in residence / workshop leader teaching a class of eight year olds in Wedmore in Somerset stop-motion animation for a lottery funded short film they were making with film maker Sara Fletcher.  The finished film was sreened in Wells cinema in June.

‘This is Somerset‘ article about the project.

First Light website and the finished film.

]]> http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=287 0 Prayer http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=285 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=285#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:33:37 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=285 A thank-you postcard to be sent to Rupert’s wonderful couchsurfing hosts in Florida inspired by Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Prayer’

‘Darkness outside. Inside, the radio’s prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.’

shippingforecast

    ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=285 0     Hir yw aros Arawn http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=282 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=282#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:56:25 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=282 Gwaith celf ar gyfer cerdd stori ysbryd yn llyfr gerddi storiol.  Brenin Annwn yw brenin y meirwon sydd yn ddod i gasglu ysbrydion.

    ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=282 0     Mei Ling a Meirion http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=275 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=275#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 17:59:49 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=275 Book cover artwork for  Gareth F Williams’s ‘Mei Ling a Meirion‘. Published by Gwasg Gwynedd.

    ‘The novel recalls the time when Gregory Peck and hundreds of Chinese arrived to shoot a film in the mountains of Snowdonia. You will be touched by this short, magical novel.‘

    meilingameirion ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=275 0     Abergwesyn http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=267 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=267#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 22:30:34 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=267 A clear and sunny Saturday found me yearning for the hills so I got on my (t)rusty old racer and rode back to West Wales over the mountain road from Llanwrtyd Wells.

    mountainroad ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=267 0     Dance steps http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=264 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=264#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 21:41:46 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=264 dance

    Crossing the river mud flats at low tide – the seagulls draw out their dance diagrams in the sand.

    ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=264 0     Bristol wanderings http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=257 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=257#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:50:13 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=257 Seeking shade from Bristol’s dusty  sun-dazed streets.  A  skull carved in wood in St Stephen’s church.

    Skull ]]>     http://www.dotspikes.com/?feed=rss2&p=257 0     Welsh Story Poems – Gwasg Carreg Gwalch http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=244 http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=244#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:32:54 +0000 admin http://www.dotspikes.com/?p=244 A recently completed illustrated story poem for an anthology of Welsh story poems.

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