Java jungle flowers

I drew some flowers in Java before making the flower lanterns.

Saya menggambar beberapa bunga di Jawa sebelum membuat lentera bunga.

This is a planted jungle in a hotel garden that me and Kath went to for breakfast and to find some flowers to draw.

Photo of Mata air festival click here.

Ini adalah hutan ditanam di taman hotel yang aku dan Kath pergi ke untuk sarapan dan untuk menemukan beberapa bunga untuk menggambar.

Global warming performance at Borobudur

A performance about global warming at Borobudur. There was a lot going on in this show and I really liked the show. In Java the wet season is late, they rely on the wet season for there crops to grow food. There is also lots of earthquakes and the big Tsunami that happened 4 years before in Sumatra. We may not notice global warming yet in Europe but it is in there faces in Java. I missed an earthquake in Jakarta by only minutes as my plane took off back to England.

I was told the old wooden style buildings that sit on top of the land are better for with standing the earthquakes, but now everything is made of concrete and set into the ground so it breaks. The dutch stole all there wood to make buildings in Holland, which are still standing there because there under the water which helps protect the would from oxygen.

Holland has no trees so they took all the jungle from Java, along with there temple at Borobudur and there java bible. It would be nice if they gave some things back.

Sebuah kinerja tentang pemanasan global di Borobudur. Ada banyak hal yang terjadi dalam acara ini dan saya benar-benar menyukai pertunjukan. Di Jawa musim hujan terlambat, mereka bergantung pada musim hujan untuk tanaman tumbuh ada makanan. Ada juga banyak gempa bumi dan tsunami besar yang terjadi 4 tahun sebelumnya di Sumatra. Kita mungkin tidak menyadari pemanasan global belum di Eropa tetapi di sana wajah-wajah di Jawa. Aku rindu gempa bumi di Jakarta dengan hanya beberapa menit sebagai pesawat lepas landas kembali ke Inggris.
Saya diberitahu bangunan bergaya kayu tua yang duduk di atas tanah dengan lebih baik untuk berdiri pada gempa bumi, tetapi sekarang semuanya terbuat dari beton dan set ke dalam tanah sehingga rusak. Di belanda mencuri semua ada kayu untuk membuat bangunan di Belanda, yang masih berdiri di sana karena ada di bawah air yang akan membantu melindungi dari oksigen.
Belanda tidak memiliki pohon sehingga mereka mengambil semua hutan dari Jawa, bersama dengan ada di candi Borobudur dan ada bible java. Akan lebih baik jika mereka memberikan beberapa hal kembali.

Austrian performers at Borobudur

These Austrian female troupe were performing at the Borobudur artist centre when we dropped by to visit the centre in Java. They were very serious performers and used the space well. They spoke in Indonesian and Austrian neither of which I could understand.

Austria ini rombongan wanita sedang melakukan di pusat seniman Borobudur ketika kita mampir untuk mengunjungi pusat di Jawa. Mereka sangat serius penampil dan menggunakan ruang baik. Mereka berbicara dalam bahasa Indonesia dan Austria tidak yang saya bisa mengerti.

Exi at Borobudur artist centre

A very quick sketch of Exi, which I rejected and started a new drawing but Kath liked this drawing so I kept it. Exi got asked up on to stage to perform when Kath was playing. He gave a long talk that people chanted him to stop and get on with singing. They chanted Quack Quack Quack. Which is his song about the parliament that sound like ducks Quacking when they are unable to come to conclusions on topics.

Sebuah sketsa yang sangat cepat Exi, yang saya tolak dan mulai menggambar tetapi baru Kath suka gambar ini jadi aku menyimpannya. Exi harus meminta naik ke panggung untuk melakukan ketika Kath sedang bermain. Dia memberi bicara panjang lebar bahwa orang-orang meneriakkan kepadanya untuk berhenti dan melanjutkan dengan menyanyi. Mereka meneriakkan Kwek Kwek Kwek. Yang lagunya tentang parlemen yang terdengar seperti bebek ber-kwek ketika mereka tidak dapat datang ke kesimpulan pada topik.
Quack Quack! Exi has a very boytrious nature, but is kind at heart and he lent me his motorbike helmet at 3am in the morning at the festival when I needed to ride home. He was festival security in the night.

Quack Quack! Exi memiliki sifat yang sangat boytrious, tapi baik hati dan ia meminjamkan sepeda motornya 3 helm di pagi di festival ketika aku harus pulang. Dia festival keamanan di malam hari.

Drummers at Burobudur arts centre

Drummer performing with the girls at Borobudor arts centre in Java.

Drummer tampil dengan Borobudor gadis di pusat seni di Jawa

Drummer performing as part of the larger performance at Borobudur artist centre the night of the full moon party. The metal drum is placed on a little hill centre stage.

Drummer tampil sebagai bagian dari kinerja yang lebih besar di pusat seniman Borobudur pada malam bulan purnama partai. Drum logam ditempatkan pada sebuah bukit kecil pusat panggung

Rain water stick Buyung

Buyung Mentari performing at Eloprogo Borobudur arts centre. He speaks and dances as he performs with the musical instrument. The instrument can have different notes and can be used slowly or fast for different effects. It also can be shaken along to music.

Buyung Mentari Eloprogo tampil di pusat seni Borobudur. Dia berbicara dan tarian saat ia melakukan dengan alat musik. Instrumen dapat memiliki catatan yang berbeda dan dapat digunakan lambat atau cepat untuk efek yang berbeda. Ini juga dapat terguncang sepanjang musik.

With grace, pride and elegant s he performs with the water stick instrument.

Dengan rahmat, kebanggaan dan elegan s ia melakukan dengan alat tongkat air.

Buyung Mentari in a traditional batik skirt which he borrowed from me to perform in. My friend and new sister Ruby Star helped me buy the skirt in Salatiga. Buyung gave me the water stick to take back to England to perform with. Buyung would like to come to England and see Shakespheres plays at the Globe theatre and perform with his theatre company in England.

Photos of the Mata air festival click here

Buyung Mentari dalam rok batik tradisional yang dipinjam dari saya untuk melakukan Teman saya masuk dan adik baru Ruby Star membantu saya membeli rok di Salatiga. Buyung memberi saya air tongkat untuk mengambil kembali ke Inggris untuk tampil bersama. Buyung ingin datang ke Inggris dan melihat Shakespheres bermain di teater Globe dan melaksanakan dengan perusahaan teater di Inggris.

Yoyo's

Two Yoyo's performing at the same gig at Eloprogo in Java, this Yoyo is reading something.

Dua Yoyo's tampil pada saat yang sama di Eloprogo manggung di Jawa, Yoyo ini adalah membaca sesuatu.

Yoyo here playing the harmonica, Yoyo helped me walk across the water rapids in the river and made banana leaf shoes for my feet that were burning, when I got across to the Island we went hunting for fruit and found a couple of ripe tomatoes.

Yoyo di sini memainkan harmonika, Yoyo membantu saya berjalan menyeberangi deras air di sungai dan membuat daun pisang sepatu untuk kaki saya yang terbakar, ketika aku menyeberang ke Pulau kita pergi berburu buah-buahan dan menemukan beberapa tomat matang.

Portrait of Mia and Fibi

Mia and Fibi being creative and making things when Mia gets home from school. Mia taught me to count in Indonesian she had plans to teach me the whole language. Mia is a great teacher, wish I could learn from her now instead I have borrowed a silly CD from the library which isn't helping me at all

Mia and Fibi drawings

A glass of water and Buyung drawing by Mia done in a cafe where we went to have mung bean desert but there was so many of us they sold out, we sat on bench's and packed the cafe out.

Segelas air dan Buyung menggambar oleh Mia dilakukan di sebuah kafe di mana kita pergi ke padang pasir memiliki kacang hijau, tapi ada begitu banyak di antara kita mereka terjual habis, kami duduk di bangku dan dikemas kafe keluar.

Fibi self portrait on a mountain with Buyung in the picture.

Fibi potret diri di sebuah gunung dengan Buyung dalam gambar.

Salatiga university

Although this says Kakuati on it I don't think he is called Kakuati, let me know who he is. he was very funny although I don't understand Indonesian yet.

Photos of the Mata air festival here

Meskipun kata ini di atasnya Kakuati Saya tidak berpikir ia disebut Kakuati, biarkan aku tahu siapa dia. dia sangat lucu walaupun saya tidak mengerti Bahasa Indonesia belum.

The Pheasant nominated for F-word

The Pheasant pub of Keyston in Huntingdon, might be going on television next Tuesday at 9pm, channel 4, on Gordon Ramsay's F-word cooking programme. You may see my cousin Taffeta and Jay Scrimshaw on the programme, they have been nominated for the F-word. Taffeta and Jay have a beautiful old English pub and run an amazing restaurant with top food and drinks. Last year they commissioned me to do a giant detail drawing of The Pheasant with everyone and everything in it. Which is now framed and beside the bar, if your a local you might spot yourself in the drawing. I spent an evening sketching the locals and was amazed at how busy the pub and restaurant was and how polite and lovely the staff were to the costumers. I had a meal with my Mother and tasted all sorts of food, I had never tasted before as well as some old favorites. If your enjoy a good meal its worth going to The pheasant any time of year. Winter there is a warm cosy pub vibe and in the summer you can sit outside and enjoy the view and the sound of birds.

The Pheasant pub dari Keyston di Huntingdon, Inggris, mungkin akan terjadi di televisi Selasa depan pada 9, saluran 4, pada Gordon Ramsay's F-kata program memasak. Anda dapat melihat sepupuku Taffeta dan Jay Scrimshaw akan program ini, mereka telah dinominasikan untuk F-kata. Taffeta dan Jay memiliki pub Inggris kuno yang indah dan menjalankan restoran yang mengagumkan dengan atas makanan dan minuman. Tahun lalu mereka menugaskan saya untuk melakukan raksasa detail gambar dari The Pheasant dengan semua orang dan segala sesuatu di dalamnya. Yang kini dibingkai dan di samping bar, jika Anda mungkin lokal tempat sendiri di gambar. Aku menghabiskan malam sketsa penduduk setempat dan takjub melihat betapa sibuk pub dan restoran itu dan bagaimana sopan dan staf yang indah ke pelanggan. Aku makan dengan Ibu dan mencicipi segala macam makanan, saya belum pernah rasakan sebelumnya serta beberapa favorit tua. Jika Anda menikmati makanan enak nilainya akan ke The pegar setiap saat sepanjang tahun. Musim dingin ada yang hangat dan nyaman pub getaran pada musim panas Anda bisa duduk di luar dan menikmati pemandangan dan suara burung.

Rashmohamad

Rash Mohamad performing at Salatiga university before the Mata air festival. He wore an amazing shirt that looked like a shadow puppet and a big hat to hold his long hair. He raps music and plays with other performers. Everyone loves Ras Mohamad

Ras Mohamad tampil di Salatiga universitas sebelum udara Mata festival. Dia mengenakan kemeja yang menakjubkan yang tampak seperti wayang kulit dan ia mempunyai topi besar untuk menahan rambutnya yang panjang. Dia mengetuk musik dan bermain dengan artis lain. Semua orang suka Ras Mohamad

Kunokiui

Kunokiui and his band made up of drummers and recorder and many instruments playing at Salatiga University.

Kunokiui dan band-nya terdiri dari drumer dan perekam dan banyak bermain di Salatiga instrumen University.

Kunokiui playing at the University before the Mata air festival. I was so busy at the festival I did not get time to see the bands to draw all of them.

Kunokiui bermain di Mata University udara sebelum festival. Aku begitu sibuk di festival saya tidak mendapatkan waktu untuk melihat band-band untuk menarik semua dari mereka.

Kathellism band

Kath Ellis on performing again in Eloprogo with her full band on a different stage that had rocks for seats surrounding the large outdoor square stage. In front of me is a sketch of Rudy seating on a rock watching the show. She was heckled by people to do the ice cream song which the ice cream bicycle sellers play all day long with out a break, she had played it at her sound check at the Mata air festival, but somehow we had all forgotten the tune to remind her of it.

Kath Ellis pada tampil lagi dalam penuh Eloprogo dengan band di panggung yang berbeda yang telah batu untuk tempat duduk sekitar alun-alun luar besar panggung. Di depan saya adalah sketsa Rudy duduk di sebuah batu menonton pertunjukan. Dia dicela oleh orang-orang untuk melakukan hal yang es krim lagu yang sepeda penjual es krim bermain sepanjang hari dengan keluar istirahat, ia bermain itu padanya sound check di udara Mata festival, tapi entah kenapa kami semua telah melupakan lagu untuk mengingatkan nya itu.

This is Kath Ellis and her band playing a t the University in Salatiga, which was an indoor music stage, with several performers plating that night.

Ini adalah Kath Ellis dan band-nya bermain di University di Salatiga, yang merupakan panggung musik dalam ruangan, dengan beberapa artis plating malam itu.

Eloprogo last performance with two impromptu drummers who joined in to make the band complete.

Eloprogo kinerja terakhir dengan dua drumer dadakan yang bergabung dalam band membuat lengkap.

Again this her on the last Eloprogo show with impromptu drummer who had performed solo before her show.

Photos of the Mata air festival click here

Sekali lagi ini dia di Eloprogo terakhir menunjukkan dengan drumer dadakan yang telah melakukan solo sebelum acaranya.

Award winning children's unit at the N+N hospital

Hotel staff magnetic photo board designed by Eloise O'Hare 2009

Friday night Emma Jarvis the hospital arts coordinator went out to the Forum to pick up an Award for the Children's unit from the Hospital trust. The first of many to come for the children's Unit. Unfortunately the artists/designers were not invited to this event.

Emma worked hard fund raising in a very short space of time to make the unit happen. She also picked very good artists to design the Unit, who worked long hours. The children will now have art to help them get better.

Emma is now working on raising funds for the intensive care Unit which will need a lot of help. If you would like to be part of the fund raising for the Unit, please do contact her. She hopes to use state of the art technology and art for the Unit. http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/arts/

If you would like to see more pictures from the children's unit please look in older posts or under hospital arts label.

Foto magnet staf hotel papan dirancang oleh Eloise O'Hare 2009

Emma Jarvis Jumat malam di rumah sakit Norwich koordinator seni pergi ke Forum untuk mengambil Award untuk Anak-anak unit dari Rumah Sakit kepercayaan. Pertama dari banyak orang untuk datang untuk anak-anak Unit. Sayangnya para seniman / desainer tidak diundang ke kegiatan ini.
Emma bekerja keras penggalangan dana dalam ruang yang sangat singkat waktu untuk membuat unit terjadi. Dia juga memilih seniman yang sangat baik untuk merancang Unit, yang bekerja berjam-jam. Anak-anak sekarang akan mempunyai seni untuk membantu mereka mendapatkan lebih baik.
Emma sekarang bekerja pada penggalangan dana untuk Unit perawatan intensif yang akan memerlukan banyak bantuan. Jika Anda ingin menjadi bagian dari penggalangan dana bagi Unit, silakan lakukan menghubunginya. Dia berharap untuk menggunakan seni keadaan teknologi dan seni untuk Unit. http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/arts/
Jika Anda ingin melihat lebih banyak gambar dari anak-anak unit silahkan lihat di posting lama atau di bawah label seni rumah sakit.

Kathellism eloprogo full moon party

Some quick sketches drawn in the dark at Borobudur artist centre in Eloprogo. I always draw in the dark as a light will distract the show. My hearing is not too hot, so I rely on vibrations and what I can see of the show.

Beberapa sketsa cepat ditarik dalam kegelapan di pusat seniman Borobudur Eloprogo. Aku selalu menarik dalam gelap menjadi terang akan mengganggu acara itu. Pendengaran saya tidak terlalu panas, jadi saya mengandalkan getaran dan apa yang dapat saya lihat dari pertunjukan

Eloprogo performers after party

Hugh and I decided to stay another night at Borobudur arts centre, so we could get up early to look at the temple. We slept in as we stayed up drawing and playing music with the performers and had yummy breakfast at the cafe there.

Hugh dan saya memutuskan untuk tinggal semalam lagi di pusat seni Borobudur, sehingga kami bisa bangun pagi untuk melihat candi. Kita tidur di saat kami terjaga menggambar dan bermain musik dengan artis dan sarapan lezat di kafe di sana.

Acid arsed frog and black Rabbit called beauty

I am at Rudy and Ness's house in hills surrounded by jungle, sitting in the back garden in an old wooden Javanese style house that has carved wooden pillars and is open air with a room in the roof that Kath stays in and I have a room at the back. I have decided to finish making some of the flower lanterns at the house in the shade. As was going stir crazy making them in amongst so many people making other thinks at the festival base TUK. My bony bum is sore from sitting on the floor, so I sit in a comfy chair and work away all day and night. I am so focused I don't even notice that the people that were busy running around all day in the main house were all gone. I get up to get a glass of water from the kitchen and make my way across the garden to the house when the rabbit called beauty starts chasing me and going for my bare heals with her large teeth. I run to the house and it runs in after me. I run a round the kitchen building and still it chases me. I wonder where it got its energy from when the rabbit was previously ill and laid out on the lawn for days. I continue to run into my room and still the chase is on and then I clamber up on to a chair and wait for the others to come home with the rabbit below me still going for my feet. kath and Ness come home and find me on the chair, yelling about the killer rabbit which the find very amusing. They said the rabbit just wants to be my friend because I gave it some carrots the night before.

I get back to work and continue to make the lanterns till the first cry from the mosque then crawl into bed with the door jammed shut and use my door snake to block and creature that might come in. Robert texts me as I am texting back I noticed the flesh eating spider behind the door. The same type that laid some eggs in my arm in Australia that I had a house full of and always thought they were harmless daddy long legs. I zip up my sleeping bag and knock myself out with some headache tablets.

The frog jumping in the picture is a frog that sprays poisonous acid out of its bottom. The night before it was sitting up in the wooden carved pillar and we were all taking a close look at, without realising its potential acid spray.

I am at Rudy dan rumah Ness di bukit-bukit yang dikelilingi oleh hutan, duduk di kebun belakang dalam gaya Jawa kayu tua rumah yang telah mengukir tiang-tiang kayu dan udara terbuka dengan sebuah kamar di atap yang Kath tetap dalam dan aku punya kamar di belakang. Aku telah memutuskan untuk menyelesaikan pembuatan beberapa bunga lentera di rumah di tempat teduh. Seperti yang akan membuat mereka gila aduk di antara begitu banyak orang yang membuat berpikir lain di festival TUK dasar. Gelandangan kurus saya adalah sakit dari duduk di lantai, jadi aku duduk di kursi yang nyaman dan bekerja jauh sepanjang hari dan malam. Saya sangat fokus saya bahkan tidak menyadari bahwa orang-orang yang sibuk sepanjang hari di rumah utama semua pergi. Aku bangkit untuk mengambil segelas air dari dapur dan berjalan melintasi kebun ke rumah ketika kelinci yang disebut keindahan mulai mengejar saya dan pergi untuk menyembuhkan telanjang dengan gigi besar. Aku berlari ke rumah dan berjalan ke dalam. Aku menjalankan mengelilingi bangunan dapur dan masih mengejarku. Aku ingin tahu di mana ia mendapatkan energi dari ketika kelinci sebelumnya sakit dan diletakkan di halaman selama berhari-hari. Aku terus berjalan ke kamarku dan masih mengejar aktif dan kemudian aku merangkak naik ke kursi dan menunggu yang lain untuk pulang ke rumah dengan kelinci di bawah saya masih berlangsung untuk kakiku. kath dan Ness pulang dan menemukan aku di kursi, berteriak tentang pembunuh kelinci yang menemukan sangat lucu. Mereka mengatakan kelinci hanya ingin menjadi teman saya karena saya memberikan beberapa wortel malam sebelumnya.
Aku kembali bekerja dan terus membuat lentera sampai menangis pertama dari masjid kemudian naik ke tempat tidur dengan pintu tertutup dan macet pintu menggunakan ular untuk memblokir dan makhluk yang mungkin masuk Robert teks saya sebagai texting aku kembali, aku makan daging melihat laba-laba di balik pintu. Jenis yang sama yang meletakkan beberapa telur di lenganku di Australia bahwa saya punya rumah yang penuh dan selalu berpikir bahwa mereka tidak berbahaya ayah kaki panjang. Aku zip up kantong tidurku dan mengetuk diriku keluar dengan tablet sakit kepala.
Katak melompat dalam gambar adalah katak yang beracun semprotan asam keluar dari bawah. Malam sebelum itu sedang duduk di atas tiang kayu berukir dan kami semua mengambil melihat dari dekat, tanpa menyadari potensi semprotan asam.

Snake Lake Java

Ruby Star in fishermans boat in front of me.

Ruby Star di perahu nelayan di depanku.

Snake lake Java. Its Sunday afternoon and Anique, fvanie, Rewi and I ride to a big lake from Salatiga on our motorbikes to go fishing. A long narrow winding road takes us there as we pass motorbikes with breast feeding baby's on the back and people bathing in pools and ice cream sellers on bicycles and teenagers hanging in gangs. We arrive at the big lake with a giant snake god mosaic ed across a wall. We park up the bikes and walk across several bamboo rickety old bridges that just sit on the surface of the water. I look down and sea a nest or bundle of bright pink water snail eggs that are clung to water plant that spreads itself all over the lake. I am still frightened of water as my ear has been operated on and one splash will send be back under a general anaesthetic for another mastoid operation, I cling on to thin air and use the eyes on my feet to work out my steps on the rounded bamboo shapes that are bundled together to form a bridge. We climb into a cafe that is on the water, climbing over people sitting and fishing. Anique goes and gets us some iced mandarin drinks and we sit on the floor and look out over the lake.

Fvanie says lets go out on the lake in a boat. There is in view fisherman with long boats like punts on the river in Cambridge. There boats are over loaded with fish and bate and bamboo poles. The girls decide to go and Rewi stays to take photos of us. We approach the fisherman and ask him if he will take us out. He says yes and cleans his boat out of water and muck, then pulls it up as close as possible. I sit in the back and pull out my drawing book ans sketch the view as were tinkling along. There is a view of mountains on the horizon with trees up the side of it, big wafting clouds bellowing around. We pass houses on the water that are tiny and made of bamboo poles raised up from the water with 4 poles in square and large nets that are for catching the fish. Whole family's live on the water in the tiny houses the size of a small bathroom. We wave out to passing boats and they shout back something in Indonesian.

We all put are hands in the water to cool down as we gently float across the water with the fisherman at the back pushing us along. The bamboo poles can be seen as far as the eye can see across the lake. On the way back Fvanie tells me the story of the snake god called Ganesh and on my bag I have sewn a door snake for a bag strap, which is now looking quite dirty. We stick it in the water to soak up the spirit of the snake god and to clean it, so that I will carry the magic powers of the snake god. We approach land and the boat cant quite reach the edge. Anique gets out and slips on the muddy waters edge. We get out and pay for our trip and head to the toilet which is a hole in the floor in a dark room with no light. Then meet Rewi and ride back before sun down to Salatiga.

Danau ular Jawa. Its Minggu sore dan Anique, fvanie, Rewi dan aku naik ke sebuah danau besar dari Salatiga di sepeda motor kami pergi memancing. Panjang jalan yang sempit berliku membawa kita di sana sebagai sepeda motor kami melewati dengan menyusui bayi di belakang dan orang-orang mandi di kolam dan penjual es krim bersepeda dan remaja tergantung di geng. Kami tiba di danau besar dengan dewa ular raksasa ed mosaik di dinding. Kami parkir naik sepeda dan berjalan di beberapa bambu reyot jembatan tua yang hanya duduk di permukaan air. Aku melihat ke bawah dan laut sarang atau seikat bekicot air pink cerah telur yang menempel pada tanaman air itu sendiri yang menyebar ke seluruh danau. Saya masih takut air sebagaimana telingaku sudah beroperasi dan satu percikan akan mengirim kembali di bawah anestesi umum untuk operasi mastoideus lain, aku berpegang teguh pada udara tipis dan menggunakan mata kakiku untuk mengetahui langkah-langkah saya di dibulatkan bambu bentuk yang dibundel bersama untuk membentuk sebuah jembatan. Kami naik ke sebuah kafe yang ada di air, memanjat di atas orang yang duduk dan memancing. Anique pergi dan akan kami minum es mandarin minuman dan kami duduk di lantai dan melihat keluar di atas danau.
Melepaskan Fvanie mengatakan di danau dalam sebuah perahu. Ada dalam pandangan nelayan dengan perahu panjang seperti punts di sungai di Cambridge. Ada perahu yang lebih penuh dengan ikan dan kemarahan dan bambu. Gadis-gadis memutuskan untuk pergi dan Rewi tetap untuk mengambil foto dari kami. Kami mendekati nelayan dan bertanya apakah dia akan membawa kami keluar. Dia bilang ya dan membersihkan perahunya keluar dari air dan kotoran, kemudian menarik itu sedekat mungkin. Aku duduk di belakang dan mengeluarkan buku gambar saya ans sketsa pandangan seperti juga denting bersama. Ada pemandangan gunung di cakrawala dengan pohon-pohon di sisi itu, besar terbawa awan berteriak sekitar. Kami melewati rumah-rumah di atas air yang kecil dan terbuat dari bambu dibangkitkan dari air dengan 4 tiang di alun-alun dan jaring yang besar untuk menangkap ikan. Seluruh keluarga yang hidup di air di rumah-rumah kecil ukuran kamar mandi kecil. Kami melambaikan tangan kepada kapal yang lewat dan mereka berteriak kembali sesuatu dalam bahasa Indonesia.
Kita semua adalah meletakkan tangan di dalam air untuk mendinginkan seperti kita lembut mengapung di atas air dengan nelayan di belakang mendorong kita bersama. Tiang-tiang bambu dapat dilihat sejauh mata memandang di seberang danau. Dalam perjalanan kembali Fvanie memberitahu saya cerita tentang dewa ular bernama Ganesh dan di tas saya dijahit pintu ular untuk tali tas, yang sekarang tampak sangat kotor. Kami tetap dalam air untuk menyerap semangat ular dewa dan untuk membersihkannya, sehingga aku akan membawa kekuatan gaib dari dewa ular. Tanah dan kita mendekati perahu cant cukup mencapai tepi. Anique turun dan menyelinap di tepi Muddy Waters. Kami keluar dan membayar untuk perjalanan kami dan kepala ke toilet yang merupakan lubang di lantai di ruangan yang gelap tanpa cahaya. Lalu bertemu Rewi dan naik kembali sebelum matahari turun ke Salatiga.

Lantern man Mata day festival

Photo taken by Okki Trainsyah who rushed to the scene of the lighting of the giant floating lantern that was launched on to Senjoyo water spring after we cleaned out the water of rubbish. The Man is carrying a flower to be planted in Java.

Foto diambil oleh Okki Trainsyah yang bergegas ke lokasi penyalaan lentera terapung raksasa yang diluncurkan pada mata air Senjoyo setelah kami membersihkan sampah air. Man membawa sebuah bunga yang akan ditanam di Jawa.

This a photo taken by Rewi of me making lanterns till the first crow call from the Mosque's in the morning, best to go to bed after they start wailing as they wake me up in the middle of my sleep and put me in a bad mood otherwise.

Photo by Okki taken of the lighting of the lantern with a crew of people with matches and long arms to light the oil wick inside several sections of the lantern.

Foto oleh Okki diambil dari pencahayaan dari lentera dengan awak orang yang cocok dan lengan panjang untuk menyalakan sumbu minyak dalam beberapa bagian dari lentera.

Kath is behind an arm funneling in more vegetable oil for the lighting of the lanterns.

Kath ada di balik lengan menyalurkan lebih banyak minyak sayur untuk menyalakan lentera.

The vegetable oil that comes in a packet. Kath with the festival shirt on and me with Marty Jays Biffo's bonanza circus shirt. Kath and I had not seen each for years. We worked together in Australia for nearly a decade making lanterns and festivals till I got the boot. Make them laugh is are motto and we seem to be naturals at that.

Minyak sayur yang datang dalam sebuah paket. Kath dengan festival kemeja dan saya dengan Jays Marty's bonanza sirkus Biffo kemeja. Kath dan aku belum pernah bertemu selama bertahun-tahun. Kami bekerja sama di Australia selama hampir satu dekade membuat lampion dan festival sampai aku boot. Membuat mereka tertawa adalah adalah moto dan tampaknya kita alami pada saat itu.

Climate Change and a nice clean planet

Photo by Rewi. This is a banana tree and leaf lantern workshop at the Mata air festival in Java, all made from Natural materials. Thanks to Buyung for helping me cut the banana trees, which are plants that grow back and thanks for the people at Senjoyo waters for donating the banana from there garden and giving me fresh coconut to eat and drink.

While in Java the school children made drawings of tips that would be useful for a cleaner planet, the drawings were all made into a calender, which you can buy from TUK in Salatiga.

I thought as there is a climate change day coming up on the 24th of October I would put a list of tips together.

1. Become a vegetarian its easy just don't eat animals or fish. Animals are treated badly all over the world and cost a lot in water and food.

2. Plant native trees to your area where you live, you can pick up seeds underneath a tree and start them off in a pot of soil and water them till there big enough to plant out.

3. Have a green funeral which is using a willow coffin or a cardboard one. Plant a tree on top of grave.

4. Collect water to water plants from the roof.

5. Sell your car and buy a bicycle and a big basket or bike trailer.

6. Shop from local organic farmer or shop at a vegetable shop that has paper bags or take your own box to the vegetable shop.

7. Take a cloth bag everywhere or a well made bag to do your shopping. Turn down every offer of a plastic bag.

8. Invest your money in green businesses across the world. If you have money set up a green business.

9. Change your electric company in the UK to ecotricty company.

10. Invest in a solar panel or buy one for someone in a third world country.

11. Recycle all your rubbish, clean it before putting it in recycling container. People sort through and use it again, not nice if its covered in fat.

12. Buy a sink strainer and don't put anything down the drain that you wouldn't drink.

13. Compost your vegetable waste by putting in a pile in the garden or invest in a compost bin which the local council pay most of the price.

14. Pick up rubbish outside your house and in the gutter.

15. Cut hedges after the summer.

16. Recycle all electric equipment, ring council to ask them where.

17. Change light bulbs to energy saving ones or LED lights.

18. Buy rechargeable battery's.

19. Buy furniture from charity shops and not kit furniture from IKEA.

20. Give clothes to charity shops or poor friends.

21. Buy clothes made of lasting fabric that is not synthetic. Bamboo fabric is now available on line, which doesn't use pesticides and is sustainable.

22. Buy less toys and use toy library's or teach your kids to make there own toys from waste.

23. Stop uranium mining in our area or any kind of mining.

24. Buy 2nd hand jewelry or reused metal jewelry or sustainable product jewelry.

25. Use washable nappy's, sanitary towels.

26. Use Eco balls, ecological washing powder, dish washing liquid.

27. Use baking powder, lemon juice, white vinegar for cleaning.

28. Buy water based paint. Oil your wood instead of vanishing it.

29. Build hay bail houses instead of brick. Use your local recycled building materials yard.

30. Buy a fridge that has a green sticker on it. Buy a green washing machine too.

31. If you drive a lot put your washing in a seal able bucket and put it in the boot of car. This will wash your clothes.

32. Hang clothes on the washing line or racks indoors to save drying machine energy.

33. If you get chickens get rare breed chickens.

34. Never buy any pets. They are all animals that should be living in the wild.

35. Buy some bird seed and make bird boxes to put outside.

36. Never buy rare birds and cage them they were caught in the wild.

37. Stop your junk mail by using Junkbuster on line and get a sticker for your door.

38. Use 2nd hand school books and cover them with a protection cover.

39. Try not to have children, foster the ones in your local town or adopt a child or pay for a child's education in a country that cant afford a child. Or share your knowledge and do a kids workshop at schools and museums.

40. Don't burn your rubbish, recycle it.

41. Get your government to set up a garbage collect service.

42. Leave shells on the beach and take your rubbish home when on holiday.

43. Give up fishing and take up water colour painting.

44. Give up alcohol, you will save water and have more time at the weekends.

45. Buy vegetables in season if you can.

46. Wash with a flannel and save the shower and bath water.

47. Avoid buying plastic products and buy natural fibers.

48. Change your lawn to something that does not require a lawn mower like chamomile, fairy grass.

49. Get a frog pond so the frogs eat the slugs and snails, get tadpoles only from your local area.

50. Build a natural swimming pool with reed system instead of chlorine water.

51. Clean out your local river and campaign to stop factory's putting chemicals in it.

52. Buy a sailing boat instead of an engine one and learn to sail at a local club.

53. Get a composting toilet if you live in the countryside.

54. Get a donkey instead of a car if you live in the country side.

55. Foster horses instead of buying one.

56. Learn the art of dry stone walling, there are classes in Yorkshire.

57. Reuse your old envelopes.

58. Get all your bills changed to direct debit or on line.

59. Use alternative ways to promote your business like helping local communities, radio.

60. Stop buying the newspaper its a log of lies. Use the library for free newspapers.

61. Get rid of your television and take up a traditional craft, join local craft groups or evening classes in your local college.

62. Avoid chip board wooden products there all trees that have been pulped.

63. Use water to wash bum instead of toilet paper.

64. Support your local artists and craft people.

65. Get local artist to do recycling/reusing workshops in schools.

66. Use recycled paper for your printer.

67. Give people trees they can plant for Christmas or birthday presents.

68. Donate money to charity as a Christmas present.

69. Fix washers in taps at home.

70. Get your kids to cycle to school.

71. Recycle your old keys and metals.

72. Stop buying any chemical products or GM crop products.

73. Don't throw any rubbish in rivers or the sea, look at this artist photos of lovely birds that are all dead. http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Foto oleh Rewi. Ini adalah pohon pisang dan daun lentera lokakarya di udara Mata festival di Jawa, semua terbuat dari bahan alam. Terima kasih kepada Buyung untuk membantu saya memotong pohon-pohon pisang, yang adalah tanaman yang tumbuh kembali dan terima kasih untuk orang-orang di air Senjoyo untuk menyumbangkan pisang dari sana dan memberiku kebun kelapa segar untuk makan dan minum.

Sementara di Jawa anak-anak sekolah membuat gambar dari tips yang akan berguna bagi planet bersih, gambar-gambar itu semua dibuat menjadi kalender, yang dapat Anda beli dari TUK di Salatiga.
Saya pikir karena ada perubahan iklim hari datang pada tanggal 24 Oktober saya akan meletakkan daftar tips bersama-sama.
1. Menjadi seorang vegetarian yang mudah hanya tidak makan hewan atau ikan. Hewan diperlakukan buruk di seluruh dunia dan biaya banyak dalam air dan makanan.
2. Menanam pohon-pohon asli untuk daerah Anda di mana Anda tinggal, Anda dapat mengambil bibit di bawah pohon dan mulai mereka pergi dalam pot tanah dan air mereka sampai ada cukup besar untuk menanam keluar.
3. Memiliki pemakaman hijau yang menggunakan peti mati atau willow karton satu. Menanam pohon di atas kuburan.
4. Mengumpulkan air untuk tanaman air dari atap.
5. Menjual mobil dan membeli sepeda dan keranjang besar atau sepeda trailer.
6. Toko dari organik lokal petani atau berbelanja di toko sayur yang memiliki kertas kantong atau mengambil kotak Anda sendiri ke toko sayur.
7. Ambil di mana-mana tas kain atau tas yang dibuat dengan baik untuk melakukan belanja Anda. Menolak setiap tawaran kantong plastik.
8. Menginvestasikan uang Anda di bisnis hijau di seluruh dunia. Jika Anda memiliki uang mendirikan bisnis hijau.
9. Ubah perusahaan listrik di ecotricty Inggris untuk perusahaan.
10. Berinvestasi dalam panel surya atau membeli satu untuk seseorang di negara dunia ketiga.
11. Mendaur ulang semua sampah, bersih sebelum memasukkannya ke dalam wadah daur ulang. Orang-orang mengolah dan menggunakannya lagi, tidak baik jika tertutup lemak.
12. Membeli saringan wastafel dan jangan memasukkan apa pun sia-sia bahwa Anda tidak akan minum.
13. Kompos limbah sayuran Anda dengan meletakkan di tumpukan di kebun atau berinvestasi dalam kompos sampah yang dewan lokal sebagian besar membayar harga.
14. Mengambil sampah di luar rumah dan di selokan.
15. Memotong pagar setelah musim panas.
16. Mendaur ulang semua peralatan listrik, cincin dewan untuk bertanya kepada mereka di mana.
17. Ganti bola lampu yang hemat energi atau lampu LED.
18. Membeli baterai isi ulang.
19. Membeli perabotan dari toko-toko amal dan tidak kit perabot dari IKEA.
20. Memberikan pakaian untuk toko-toko amal teman-teman atau miskin.
21. Membeli pakaian yang terbuat dari kain abadi yang tidak sintetik. Bambu kain sekarang tersedia on-line, yang tidak menggunakan pestisida dan berkesinambungan.
22. Buy kurang mainan dan menggunakan perpustakaan mainan atau mengajar anak-anak Anda untuk membuat ada mainan sendiri dari limbah.
23. Berhenti uranium pertambangan di daerah kami atau segala jenis pertambangan.
24. Buy 2 tangan perhiasan atau logam digunakan kembali perhiasan atau perhiasan produk yang berkelanjutan.
25. Gunakan popok dicuci's, pembalut.
26. Eco menggunakan bola, ekologi deterjen, mencuci piring cair.
27. Gunakan baking powder, air jeruk nipis, cuka putih untuk membersihkan.
28. Buy cat berbasis air. Minyak kayu Anda bukan hilang itu.
29. Membangun rumah-rumah jerami bukan jaminan dari batu bata. Gunakan bahan bangunan daur ulang lokal halaman.
30. Membeli lemari es yang memiliki stiker hijau di atasnya. Beli mesin cuci hijau juga.
31. Jika Anda mengendarai banyak menaruh cap mencuci di ember mampu dan meletakkannya di bagasi mobil. Ini akan mencuci pakaian.
32. Menggantungkan pakaian di jemuran atau rak dalam rumah untuk menyelamatkan mesin pengering energi.
33. Jika Anda mendapatkan ayam mendapatkan ayam langka.
34. Pernah membeli hewan peliharaan. Mereka semua hewan yang harus tinggal di alam bebas.
35. Membeli burung burung benih dan membuat kotak untuk menempatkan di luar.
36. Pernah membeli burung langka dan kandang mereka, mereka ditangkap di alam liar.
37. Menghentikan junk mail dengan menggunakan Junkbuster on line dan mendapatkan stiker untuk pintu Anda.
38. Gunakan 2 tangan buku-buku sekolah dan menutupi mereka dengan perlindungan penutup.
39. Cobalah untuk tidak memiliki anak, membina yang ada di kota setempat Anda atau mengadopsi anak atau membayar untuk pendidikan anak di negara yang mampu cant anak. Atau berbagi pengetahuan dan melakukan lokakarya anak-anak di sekolah-sekolah dan museum.
40. Jangan membakar sampah, daur ulang itu.
41. Dapatkan pemerintah untuk mendirikan sebuah layanan mengumpulkan sampah.
42. Tinggalkan kerang di pantai dan mengambil sampah rumah ketika Anda berlibur.
43. Menyerah memancing dan mengambil lukisan cat air.
44. Berhenti mengkonsumsi alkohol, Anda akan menghemat air dan memiliki lebih banyak waktu di akhir pekan.
45. Membeli sayuran di musim jika Anda bisa.
46. Cuci dengan kain flanel dan menyimpan dan mandi pancuran air.
47. Hindari membeli produk plastik dan membeli serat alami.
48. Ubah halaman untuk sesuatu yang tidak memerlukan mesin pemotong rumput seperti chamomile, peri rumput.
49. Dapatkan katak katak kolam sehingga memakan siput dan siput, kecebong mendapatkan hanya dari daerah lokal Anda.
50. Membangun sebuah kolam renang alami dengan sistem buluh klorin bukannya air.
51. Membersihkan sungai setempat dan kampanye untuk menghentikan menempatkan pabrik bahan kimia di dalamnya.
52. Beli kapal layar bukan mesin satu dan belajar untuk berlayar di sebuah klub lokal.
53. Mendapatkan kompos toilet jika Anda tinggal di pedesaan.
54. Mendapatkan keledai bukan mobil jika Anda tinggal di negara pihak.
55. Foster kuda daripada membeli satu.
56. Pelajari seni batu kering Walling, ada kelas di Yorkshire.
57. Menggunakan kembali amplop lama Anda.
58. Dapatkan semua tagihan Anda berubah ke debet langsung atau on line.
59. Gunakan cara-cara alternatif untuk mempromosikan bisnis Anda seperti membantu masyarakat lokal, radio.
60. Berhenti membeli koran its a log kebohongan. Gunakan perpustakaan koran gratis.
61. Menyingkirkan televisi Anda dan mengambil kerajinan tradisional, kerajinan lokal bergabung dengan kelompok atau kelas malam di perguruan tinggi setempat.
62. Hindari produk kayu papan chip semua pohon yang ada telah pulped.
63. Menggunakan air untuk mencuci gelandangan bukan kertas toilet.
64. Dukungan Anda seniman lokal dan kerajinan rakyat.
65. Dapatkan seniman lokal untuk melakukan daur ulang / penggunaan kembali lokakarya di sekolah-sekolah.
66. Gunakan kertas daur ulang untuk printer Anda.
67. Memberi orang mereka dapat menanam pohon untuk Natal atau hadiah ulang tahun.
68. Menyumbangkan uang untuk amal sebagai hadiah Natal.
69. Fix cuci di keran di rumah.
70. Dapatkan siklus anak-anak Anda ke sekolah.
71. Daur ulang kunci lama Anda dan logam.
72. Berhenti membeli produk kimia atau produk tanaman transgenik.
73. Jangan membuang sampah apapun di sungai atau laut, lihat ini foto-foto artis cantik semua burung yang mati. http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Full moon Party Eloprogo performance

Went out with everyone to Eloprogo an arts centre on the two rivers that meet in central Java, one of the rivers is from a live volcano and the other a dead volcano the one from the dead volcano is warm water. The entrance the the artist centre founded by Sony a Javanese painter, has a large dragon creature made of pebbles. Hundreds of motorbike's were lined up in the car park. We had driven there through the thick fog in the mountains where the temperature dropped suddenly. Luckily I got a puncture on my bike outside the house so could not ride there, but Hugh and Rewi road behind us in the car.

The first building in the artist centre was a cafe run by volunteers. We were greeted with a warm welcome and introduced to everyone. We sat at a large table that looked out over the river, but I could not see the river because it was dark.

Then we walked along the edge of the cliff top where there were sculptures and stone furniture and long to a table that was laid out with ginger tea in giant teapots. Then everyone headed down the cliff that was lined with bottle flamed lights and cut out steps. I was greeted by a friendly Javanese man on the steps who talked fast and the words I made out were that he was an actor. I walked further down to see the stage was lit with lights in banana trunks on the ground. People were all mingling in the dark. I could make out Kath, who was chatting to Sony telling him I was an artist too. Then a large canvas was being carried down the cliff for Sony to Paint on during the performance he asked if I wanted one too I felt deeply honoured as I could not afford a canvas that big in the UK but also felt a bit shy to painting in public on a arrival. I said I would be fine with my drawing book and would sketch the show. I sat on the ground and the performance began. I was sitting beside the drummers but did not know till they started drumming. The performance was made up of lots of people doing different elements of the show and felt very tribal. Sony painted his canvas in two minutes in time to the drumming.

Keluar bersama setiap orang untuk Eloprogo pusat seni pada dua sungai yang bertemu di Jawa Tengah, salah satu sungai berasal dari gunung berapi yang hidup dan mati gunung berapi lainnya satu dari antara orang mati gunung berapi adalah air hangat. Pintu masuk pusat seniman yang didirikan oleh Sony seorang pelukis Jawa, memiliki makhluk naga besar yang terbuat dari batu kerikil. Ratusan sepeda motor yang berjajar di tempat parkir. Kami telah didorong sana menembus kabut tebal di pegunungan di mana suhu turun tiba-tiba. Untungnya aku mendapat tusukan pada sepeda di luar rumah sehingga tidak bisa naik sana, tapi Rewi Hugh dan jalan di belakang kami di dalam mobil.
Bangunan pertama di pusat seniman adalah sebuah kafe yang dikelola oleh sukarelawan. Kami disambut dengan sambutan yang hangat dan diperkenalkan kepada semua orang. Kami duduk di sebuah meja besar yang tampak di atas sungai, tapi aku tidak bisa melihat sungai karena gelap.
Kemudian kami berjalan di sepanjang tepi puncak tebing di mana terdapat patung-patung dan batu furnitur dan panjang ke sebuah meja yang ditata dengan jahe teh di teko raksasa. Lalu semua orang menuju ke tebing yang dilapisi dengan botol lampu dinyalakan dan memotong langkah-langkah. Saya disambut oleh pria Jawa yang ramah pada langkah-langkah yang berbicara cepat dan kata-kata yang terbuat dari itu bahwa ia adalah seorang aktor. Aku berjalan lebih jauh ke bawah untuk melihat panggung itu diterangi lampu-lampu di batang pisang di tanah. Orang-orang semua berbaur dalam gelap. Aku bisa melihat Kath, yang sedang mengobrol ke Sony mengatakan bahwa aku adalah seorang seniman juga. Kemudian kanvas besar sedang dibawa menuruni tebing untuk Sony untuk Paint pada kinerja selama ia bertanya apakah aku mau satu juga saya merasa sangat terhormat seperti aku tidak mampu membeli kanvas yang besar di Inggris tapi juga merasa agak malu untuk lukisan di public di kedatangan. Aku berkata aku akan baik-baik saja dengan buku dan akan menggambar sketsa pertunjukan. Aku duduk di tanah dan kinerja dimulai. Aku sedang duduk di samping drumer tapi tidak tahu sampai mereka mulai drum. Kinerja terdiri dari banyak orang yang melakukan unsur-unsur yang berbeda dari pertunjukan dan merasa sangat tribal. Sony kanvas dilukis-Nya dalam dua menit dalam waktu ke drum.

The audience drawn here sat in the auditorium that was seats cut into the cliff side, surrounded by trees.

Penonton ditarik di sini duduk di kursi auditorium yang memotong ke sisi tebing, dikelilingi oleh pepohonan.

This is the picture drawn across two pages of the audience and the show.

Ini adalah gambar diambil di dua halaman dari penonton dan pertunjukan.

Buyung Mentari

Buyung Mentari fire breathing on to the fire sculpture at Festival Mata air in Senjoyo spring 2009. Buyung is a fantastic performer from Jakarta and performs all over Indonesian. He also assisted me with chopping down Banana trees and slicing them up for the children's lantern making workshops and I helped him with festival lighting hung from the trees. We also performed together freeing local native birds from cages that the locals sale at the markets. We freed them on stage during a Kathellism performance. More pictures to come. Please send me any photos you took at the festival to publish on my blog.

Buyung Mentari bernapas api ke api patung di Festival Mata Senjoyo udara di musim semi 2009. Buyung adalah pemain yang fantastis dari Jakarta dan melakukan seluruh Indonesia. Dia juga membantu saya dengan menebang pohon-pohon Pisang dan mengiris mereka untuk anak-anak lentera membuat lokakarya dan aku membantunya dengan pencahayaan festival tergantung dari pepohonan. Kami juga tampil bersama membebaskan burung-burung asli setempat dari kandang bahwa penjualan penduduk setempat di pasar. Kami membebaskan mereka di panggung selama Kathellism kinerja. Lebih banyak gambar yang akan datang. Kirimkan saya foto-foto yang Anda ambil di festival untuk mempublikasikan di blog saya.

Festival Mata air 09

Festival Mata air map poster drawn by Kath Ellis and coloured in by Mia and Ruddy. More drawings and photos to come, just waiting for a peak in the sun through the clouds to photograph my drawings. The environmental festival was a huge success and we hope everyone will keep there rivers clean. Calenders drawn by the local children with environment tips are for sale and T-shirts and bags and belts and shoes made by the locals to raise cash for next years festival. Check out the Festival website for more photos and information in link above.

Festival Mata poster peta udara digambar oleh Kath Ellis dan diwarnai oleh Mia dan Ruddy. Lebih gambar dan foto yang akan datang, hanya menunggu puncaknya pada matahari melalui awan foto gambar saya. Festival lingkungan hidup sukses besar dan kami berharap semua orang akan menjaga sungai-sungai di sana bersih. Calenders ditarik oleh anak-anak dengan lingkungan setempat akan dijual tips dan T-shirt, tas, dan ikat pinggang dan sepatu yang dibuat oleh penduduk setempat untuk mendapatkan uang tunai tahun depan festival. Check out the Festival website untuk lebih banyak foto dan informasi di link di atas.

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Burkurrr testing my new boxing love gloves I made for my love heart boxing bag in my match box house. Burkurrr popped in to say hello from Australia after nearly 8 years since I saw him last. He arrived about ten minutes before we had to head up to the hospital to open my new Children's ward with the Lord Mayor.

Burkurr and me in Norwich, he is wearing one of Marty Jays marvellous creations. Burkurrr was about to go on tour in Europe with his new band. Captain Satan. This was moments before I was heading off to Java for the Mata Day air festival.

Exhibition at the Fashion industry networking night at the Beluga bar

Norwich fashion industry networking night at the new Beluga bar on Tombland. My new mini gallery was set up while I was away in Java volunteering for a huge environmental arts festival at a natural spring water in Senjoyo waters near Salatiga. Thanks to Angela Philips for organising the successful night and look forward to the next networking night which is Music and the arts.

I received a text from Robert out of the blue while I was washing banana slices in a river for a lantern workshop and having leeches flicked off my legs by a lovely local lad.

Mini Gallery with Punch and Judy puppets and paintings inside and out and on the table my bowl backed turtles carrying my business cards on top is my art in a can.

Industry Networking night Norwich

From the 6 of October at 7.30pm at Norwich Beluga Bar (the old slug and lettuce) there is a fantastic networking event for fashion designers, models, artists, web designers, printers, graphic designers, photographers, etc. This kind event cuts out hours of trying to network on line and helps people meet face to face. Sandra Reynolds model agency will be there.

I will be exhibiting my art work along side Dugald Blanchard Ferguson a Norfolk/New Zealand artist. Robert Rijkhoff will be representing me on the night, so any questions please don't hesitate to ask him.

Its £8 on the door, please do tell anyone you think will benefit from this event. Events like this are very important to create jobs and work for everyone.

For more information head to St. Lawrence's textile centre. A big church on St. Benedict's street in Norwich where the Ship of fools shop has moved to.

Mind the Gap... Bringing depression above ground

Mind the Gap...Bringing depression above ground is an exhibition held at the Crypt of St Pancras church in Euston on the 30th September 2009 at 5pm and runs till the 27th of October 2009.

I have been asked to exhibit along side many International and local female artists. So thanks to Claire Freer who is also exhibiting, she will be putting my work in for me, while I am away.

Do go a long to the show at the Crypt it is an amazing space.

The organizers of the show is the called WAM. Which stands for the Women's art movement.

It is fantastic that they have included me in this show and I hope I do something to improve women's mental health, it certainly improves mine by being in the show.

Java Mata Air Festival

Tomorrow I am flying around the world to the Java Mata Air Festival at Senjoya Springs. The festival this year is about clean water. So there will be a big clean up of waterways happening in the area from the 26th of September.

I will be making large lanterns with Kath Ellis who I use to work with in Australia making very large lantern festivals. Kath Ellis has kindly organised for me to get to the Mata-air-festival.

I would not usually fly this far with global melt down but due to this being a very good cause I am going and will arrive around the 24th to be thrown into festival atmosphere, sun and bamboo cutting. Kath Ellis will be performing on the main stage with her band Hubris, Huge Coffey and Gang. Marty Jay Australia's leading fashion designer will be arriving soon after I get there with a gang of Ozzie's. The local bands and artists from Java will also be there and I am looking forward to meeting them.

If anyone in Java wants to learn how to make lanterns please come along, it will be fun.

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Alex Walker with the Famous Artist Eloise O'Hare at the Menier Gallery 2009

The alien is in shock and doesnt know what to think of the art work.

Aunty Margaret and Uncle David having a chat with the famous artist Eloise O'Hare

Far Left Guy Freer all the way from Australia who landed here just in time for the opening after he had a packed out show in Edinburgh.
Thats all the photos from the Menier Gallery well I think it is will have another look.

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Photos by Alex Walker

Me at my opening night in my silver snake dress with Dirty Linen in the backround.

Rhalou Allerhand editor of top magizine, Janie Hampton director of restoration of Chauncy Maples hospital ship on Lake malawi, Alex Walker english teacher of naughty kids like me.

Claire Freer, Stella kitchen artist, Stellas friend, Griff, Terry, leni from Davies and daughters trust house art company and me.

Claire and Leni the youngest viewer of me art.

Me and Marian O'Hare the founder memer of of me.

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Robert and I driving big van with art work in to London Menier Gallery stopping over at Aunt Margaret and Uncle Dave on the way in North London.

Robert and Bart in Cromer catching some sunlight, before picking up a deckchair from North Norfolk.

Fish and Chips at Mary Jane's Chippy in Cromer.

Snakes are exhausted after a big show in London and just want to chill out near a draughty door.

Dirty Linen Sheets from wars, X-army cotton sheets with paint and rubble.

London art Blog review

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The wine for the opening night, these next lot of photos were taken by Bart from Holland who came and helped with the show.

Robert and Eloise getting word cards ready for the walls.

Robert blowing up a big ball for the show.

Claire hanging the work on the walls before the private viewing at the Menier gallery.
Bart photographing himself and Claire behind and my row of political cartoons.

London art blog review.

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At the Private art club in Soho where I met Guy Freer from the famous band Micheal Angelo's gentlemen of the black sea which was a hit in Edinburgh and playing in Soho.

That makes a nice window. Me in the window at the Menier Gallery with my art in a can.

Sold pictures to be wrapped from Reciepe collection.

My family dehanging the show at the Menier Gallery.

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Space, nature, time on the walls at the Menier gallery, the clock struck everyones eye.

People chuckle at the fake Mondrian's for different reasons.

Fertility paintings hung on the wooden side wall they take you back to the woods home.

St. Patricks day paintings with my door snakes running away across the old chocolate factory wooden floor, looking for a draft to block.

Waves Ahuh splashing to one side of the gallery, with a big beach ball. Refreshing change from dusty dry London.

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This is my cousin Donald doing a plastic bag dance on the top floor of a high rise flats in central London. Donald put me up to stay for the week and fed and cupped of teaed me well.

Donald was a secret fan already and had a life drawing I did at Great Yarmouth art college in the late eighty's.

Also in the bathroom a framed Christmas card by me with a pink shinny mount, hanging above the mirror.

The reflection of the flats in the flat windows with a view of London. It was great that one lift was working.

This block mimics the block I am staying in, it reminded me of my childhood in Dublin visiting friends who lived in flats like these.

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The famous knitted alien on a stand with the Dirty linen in the background at the Menier Gallery for Undiagnosed madness show.

Cousin Donald the famous piano player and Karen the famous theatre director, signing the book at the gallery with the gallery management team in the background.

Claire Freer the famous textile artist and Jane the famous Ghaphic designer, both people are from puppet backrounds, visiting the gallery and hanging out with the puppets.

Albert Hoffman's psychedelic summer pudding, mounted on cream with gold frame.

The flowers were given to me by Claire, she walked through the markets in the morning on her way for the big exhibition construction day.

The bowl backed turtle carries artistic licence's with my blog address on the other side.

Thank Leon for the great review in his london art blog

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Sanphire Queen preparing sanphire from her beach. Best of the series of recipes mounted in cream and gold decorative frames hung at the Menier Gallery in a set of Six but is from an ungoing series.

Miffy giving birth struck a cord with people who have been somewhere in Europe and seen hello kitty things.

Poo pearls worked as soon as people put them on they felt amazing. The mirror was an old family mirror that use to be always put where there is stairs. this time it blends in with the old chimney wall.

Mr. Punch lucking in the background of these enormous detailed pen drawings that I was commissioned to draw. Mr. Punch from a big family of Punches and 3 large detail drawings.

Love heart punch bag and gloves. A little girl who spoke three languages including Russian was the only person daring enough to have a go at wearing the gloves and swinging for the bag. I had a go purely because my flat is too small to hit it. So when the gallery was quite I had played punch bag.

Dont forget to read the great review at London art blogs.

Artist gets bike stolen.

Sorry to break the flow of the Menier gallery photo story, but I have had my bike stolen at 10.30pm last night from outside my house where it was locked up.

The bike was a present from Robert because I had my last bike stolen and was good one that had lights and I could cycle further out of Norwich city and go blackberry picking with my friends and the most importantly take my art to art on the railings, monthly event in Norwich and the only mode of transport I can afford being an artist.

The bike is a mat black, called "Globe" Lady's city mountain bike with hub dynamo lights, if anyone sees it about Norwich or Norfolk, it has scratched paintwork on the handle bars, which were caused by the large bike chain lock dangling over them.

Will give an award of a painting for return of bike. Please phone police if you see it.

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The original poster, hand draw with blood, sweat and tears of laughter. Mounted and framed in undertone gold for the Menier Gallery solo exhibition.

You have to really look at this one to see what he is doing. The viewers move in close to this picture. London is in the view below Spiderman. From the growing supermodels set.

Superman flashing his tits at the viewer from Super models growing set.

Baby crying, a lot of relatives of mine sore other relatives as the baby crying. Baby from Punch and Judy family.

These are sections from the series of waves which I painted of memory's of Australia waves. Set of 6 paintings.

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Menier Gallery window looking in through the letters.

The film that was made for the opening of the celebratie opening the show.

Coffee break and a walk round to the prositutes graveyard with messages from people on the gate, round the corner from the Menier gallery. The prositutes had been buried there over 100 years ago.

Claire, Bart and Robert having a coffee at the markets before the last part of hanging the show.

The painted window across the road with the little chef in and Bart.

London art blog check out hot review.

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puppets and gloves view inside the Menier gallery.

Just before frock up at 5.30pm letting everyone know on face book I am about to swing into opening party after years of work to get this far.

My Artist Bag from my blue plastic period, from my exhibition in Bellingen N.S.W. duo show with Kath Ellis, the bag has been with me everywhere since and it carries my artist tools which have to be changed for each job. Today it is a hanging art bag.

Art in a can. I am not sure if I have taken Andy Warhol's caned soup for a walk. but there is a painting inside each can and you get pot luck as to which painting you get. Canned now framed later.

My CV and signature a must reader and Battersea painting of a London park with hundreds of dogs doing there doggy thing.

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Menier Gallery window with poster of the show and Mr. Punch hanging around.

Poster board out on the street corner on Southwark street looking at the bridge in the back round where people arrive from London bridge underground, the Tate, Brourgh Markets, the city.

The chocolate factory enterance to the Menier Gallery, so good I could eat it.
The chocolate Factory building that holds a gallery, resturant and theatre and paintings in hospitals.
The reflection of the building across the road on my blue/green painting hanging in the window.

Great review in by Leon Billings London art blog.

Art review of Undiagnosed madness

Wow! take a look at Leon Billings London art blog he has written a great review of my show at the Menier Gallery.

http://www.londonartblog.com/archives/195#more-195

Sold 3 pictures today looks like I am getting close to Java.

Menier Gallery show

Last night had a great art opening at the Menier Gallery. The room filled up with Aunty's and very old friends. I found myself unable to have long chats with everyone, as it was all hellos. Claire helped all day hanging the show and even made nori rolls for everyone. Her Brother Guy had come all the way from Edinburgh where he had been performing with Micheal Angelo's Gentlemen of the black sea. Guy did the Djing and sorted out my film which had a celebrity open the show.

Bart came over from Holland and helped with all the set up and Robert did just about everything else from driving my work to doing the bar all night.

On the day Margaret the technical assistant helped all day hanging the work which was brilliant and made it all run smoothly.

Today I am sitting in the gallery chatting to the public that have come to see the show.

Waiting now for Mike Read the British chess champion to come down from Norwich with his friend Helen to see the show.

If your in London this week come along and see my exhibition. 10am till 6pm daily.

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The finest Gallery I have ever bared my eyes upon in a beautiful vintage chocolate factory in London. The wonderful Menier Gallery is hosting my art work in the first week in September. So from the 2nd of September 10am to 6pm finishing the 5Th of September at 4pm.

Menier Chocolate factory. 51 Southwark street, London SE1 1R2.

I will be showing work I have never shown before that has been waiting for this moment and some that you may have seen on my blog or website. The work all varies in themes and has one overall theme its all made by me in my studio flat by night.
The Show is called Undiagnosed madness.

Please do sponsor a picture frame below.

Sponsor a picture frame.

This is very exciting time of my life. I have an exhibition organised for the first week in September in a very posh gallery in London, next door to the Tate Gallery. The gallery kindly gave me the space for free for a week. The excitement nearly gave me a heart attack. My friend Deb Frith from Oz who is over on holiday in the UK. Came all the way from London to sort out a decade of my work for a whole day and night. She was over whelmed by the amount of exciting original work and felt she was in a sweat shop, as I pulled more and more work out to show her. Then at the end of the day we discovered I would need a lot of work framed. Deb rang the picture framers and it will cost thousands of pounds and the show being only 4 weeks away, it is a dilemma. Then we came up with an idea of sponsor a picture frame. So if you fancy sponsoring a picture frame or donating a few pounds towards a picture frame please do. I will also send you an invite to the private view which is going to have a leading band at the opening night and very famous Art stars. I have to do all the publicity myself so spread the word it will the first week in September. If you are in London and want to see the real Britain come a long and see my show. Details will be published when I have made a poster in the next week.

Press the paypal button below and it will link to the paypal site. Thank you to Robert for setting the button up.

Knock Knock film

Eloise and Deb Frith meet up after 7 years at Clifton suspension bridge.
Many years ago I went on a film Directors course in Melbourne with my friend Deb Frith, it was great fun. The first day on arrival I had been out to lunch with Deb and had one two many drinks, then went into the class room late and stumbled over some chairs and landed on top of Australia's top comedian Ross Daniels who was also on the course. After the course Ross decided to make a film and wanted me and Deb in on it. So I was Arts director and Deb was the Producer, we also took down to Melbourne my friend Stephen Hince to do lighting. When we got there to make the film Ross had gathered up all the comedians he knew to help make it and picked out some famous actors to be in the film. One of which stars in Neighbours now. I was in charge of rain making which I had always wanted to do since a child and had brought with me a lot of umbrellas from the Badde Manors lost propriety to cover the lights. In the end the fire hoses didn't work for the larger scene so we had to call the fire brigade who over the moon to be making rain for Australia's stars.

I got my friend Dave Odgers to do some sound track with his new recording equipment and then a young editor, put the film together and made brilliant credits for it.

The film was suppose to go in the Tropicana film festival in Sydney but got rejected, then it got entered into St.Kilda film festival and won best comedy film. I unfortunately was sent back to Europe and missed the seeing the film at the festival and all these years had no idea till I saw my friend Deb that the film had won prizes. All this time I thought I was suppose to be a artist and maybe I should be working on comedy films. I must say working with the OZ comedians was the best laugh I ever had. Seeing Deb again brought up the giggles.

So some time soon I am going to put my head down and work on some more films.

If anyone sees Ross Daniels the comedian can you tell him to up load the Film called Knock Knock to You tube.

Join Ecotricity now !

Elections tomorrow for Norwich North and the Green party have a good chance of getting in. It is very important to vote for the Green Party as there needs to be a huge push for Green Issues.

In Leonora an area of Australia, Uranium mining is about to start happening. This is something the locals would not not want and the rest of the planet does not need more of as once its out of the ground and used for energy there is no real way of disposing it. It will just float around in the oceans and land in your vege patch on any part of the planet. If you see how quickly pig flu spreads then just imagine how quickly Uranium waste gets around. Also in Australia The shooters party are trying to pass a bill to shoot all Australian native animals in the forests. How crazy is that, when there people like the RSPCA trying to save animals. We need Green people in powerful positions to help make changes and fight to hold on to rainforest's and promote Green energy.

I joined Ecotricity several years ago they match other local electric companies bills, so your not paying any more for your electricity bill by joining them. Then they spend the whole bill on reinvesting in alternative energy for electricity. They mostly build Windmills and also are trying to develop other forms of electricity. They also have developed an Eco car here in Norfolk.

Before I joined Ecotricity I rang every electric company in the country to see what they were doing for alternative green energy and every single one them said they were doing nothing. I got very honest telephone assistant. They all said they would would rather be working for a green energy company and told me to start one. But after lots of research I found Ecotricity, so there is little point in me starting my own alternative energy company when they is already one out there doing a very good job.

Windmills are nothing new they use to be all over the landscape grinding grains and pumping water. We just need to go back to the old way. If I had a big building to power I would certainly get a wind mill and solar panels.

In Sydney there is a whole area that has a rule to have every house decked out with solar panels.

25 years ago when I was in Saudi Arabia which is an oil country, they had already been decked out with solar panels. I even saw them on public telephone boxes.

Join Ecotricity today as you contribution to the planet and vote green in every election.

Bristol Dog minding Holiday

Just back from Bristol on a dog minding holiday at my Aunt Alex's house and in her living room was a painting she bought off me last year, so I thought I would capture a picture of it in her home. More pictures of Bristol to come. I am a little disturbed today as I left a painting on a train from london at the Norwich station last night. If anyone picked up please do contact me.

Back in Norwich its all election time again and the Green party up for a seat, we only live in hope, vote, vote, vote.