The Hermitage

Rima Staines is an artist using paint, wood, word, music, animation, puppetry & story to attempt to build a gate through the hedge between the worlds. This will be a scrapbook of ideas, visuals to inspire, and snippets from my own journey. www.rimastaines.com

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Urgent! Help save this off-grid woodland community now facing eviction after 15 years of low-impact living. http://thndr.me/L13SzT

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Tibet

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Hedgespoken - A vehicle for the imagination ~ a travelling off-grid theatre, wonder-wagon and home. Support this dream here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken/x/8665286

https://www.facebook.com/Hedgespoken

https://twitter.com/hedgespoken

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Hedgespoken - A vehicle for the imagination ~ a travelling off-grid theatre, wonder-wagon and home. Support this dream here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hedgespoken/x/8665286

https://www.facebook.com/Hedgespoken

https://twitter.com/hedgespoken

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Maiden Mother Crone

by Rima Staines

Oils on Oak 2013

Prints available HERE

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The Midsummer Wedding 

by Catherine Hyde

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The incredible work of Kazakh illustrator Ассоль Сас (Assol Sas) 

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Мои птенчики (My Nestlings) 

by Anna Silivonchik 

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Kharytina Desha, 92, is one of the few elderly people who have returned to their village homes inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Although surrounded by devastation and isolation, she prefers to die on her own soil.

Photo by: © Gerd Ludwig/INSTITUTE

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Odilon Redon

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Ethiopian magic scroll.

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Calendar with weekdays, feastdays, and St. Olav Axes.

"MS in Norwegian on walrus bone or reindeer horn, Norway, ca. 15th c., 6 ff., 3x14 cm, single column, (2x14 cm), 1 line in runes of the younger futhark, 93 feastday symbols in a rather early primitive stage, including the 2 St. Olav axes.

Binding: Norway, ca. 15th c., walrus bone or reindeer horn covers, fastened with 2 leather straps through holes.

Commentary: The 2 St. Olav axes, 29 July and 3 August, represent the most conclusive evidence of Norwegian origin. Calendars in bookform on bone are of the utmost rarity. This is the only specimen in private hands. Runes are normally used for weekdays and golden numbers in Swedish calendars. In Norway they occur very rarely.”  (via)

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Heure de Charles d’Angoulême. Horae ad usum Parisiensem. Latin 1173. 1485. (source: Bibliothèque nationale de France) (source)

View the whole manuscript here

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Mylimoji by Egle Vismantaite

50 x 70cm, Acrylics and bronze powder on canvas

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Sing Fire Like Dragons

by

Tin Can Forest

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National Marionette Theatre / Εθνικό Θέατρο Μαριονέτας