Colour & Beauty

Painting a "Rangoli" Glass Block - A Diwali Festival of Light Ornament

par Clare Smythson 26 avril, 2026

Here's a "Rangoli" glass block delivered to my customer last week. A traditional Indian art form & part of the Hindu religion, Rangoli patterns...

par Clare Smythson 27 mars, 2022

A reigning symbol of summer, the water lily captures our imagination immediately. It’s an important plant in our culture and religion as well a...

par Clare Smythson 05 octobre, 2021

So - WHICH is the very first colour that we are able to see - and WHY?

Publié dans color, color range, colour meaning, colours, daring red, meaning of red, powerful red, psychology of colour, red, the colour red

par Clare Smythson 12 juin, 2020

So WHY is blue the world's most popular colour?

Publié dans color, color range, colour meaning, colours, psychology of colour, spectrum colours

par Clare Smythson 22 janvier, 2020

A brand new Geisha Girl lantern means a little look at Japanese geisha & their history.

Geisha are entertainers, NOT waitresses & certainly NOT prostitutes. Geisha actually means “person employed in the arts”

Instead, they are the illusion of female perfection – and men pay huge sums of money to have geisha attend them.

Publié dans geisha girl, Japanese geisha, stained glass geisha, what are geisha, who are geisha

par Clare Smythson 11 mai, 2019

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! A visit to beautiful Wisley Gardens

Publié dans days out, garden decoration, gardens to visit, gorgeous gardens, horticultural research centre, places to visit, planting ideas, RHS Wisley Gardens, Royal Horticultural Society flagship garden, spring garden, Surrey gardens