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ANOTHER SUMMER COMES AND WILL GO
Sixty-three summers have shone their light, How many more, Their fleeting memory will hold, How many more, warm summer breezes , Will I...
Ellen Michel
Jul 13, 20221 min read


Green is the New Gold
Green is the new gold, Whose perfume captures our senses And awakens us to new way of smelling the roses, To new ways of opening our...
Ellen Michel
Jul 13, 20221 min read


Blue Planet - the overview Effect
Green grey, green red flowering gum. Blue wonder our home planet. Astronauts become poets and seers Awe struck by your beauty, they drink...
Ellen Michel
Jul 13, 20221 min read


When the Mona Lisa Was Stolen The theft of the world’s most famous painting
‘Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo’ (between 1503 and 1506) by Leonardo da Vinci. Oil on poplar wood. Photo by Eric TERRADE on Unsplash...
Ellen Michel
Jul 13, 20224 min read


Three Essential Symbols for Understanding Art Hints for reading symbolism in paintings, from mirrors
The Toilet of Venus (‘The Rokeby Venus’) 1644 by Diego Velázquez. National Gallery, London. Source Wikimedia Commons Learning to read...
Ellen Michel
Jul 10, 20227 min read


Flight of the Soul
Love finds a way to enter the world, Like a bird on the wing piercing the air, Soaring to great heights beyond skies, Eventually...
Ellen Michel
Jul 5, 20221 min read


The Art of Rubens and His Fascination With “Plump” WomenThe reasons behind his voluptuous nudes
Judgement of Paris ( between 1632 and 1635 ) By Peter Paul Rubens. Oil on oak wood. National Gallery, London. Image source Wikimedia...
Ellen Michel
Jul 4, 20225 min read


Great Paintings Explored: The Scream by Edvard Munch - the roots of an iconic image.
The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch. Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard. 73.5 x 91cm. National Gallery in Oslo, Norway. Image source...
Ellen Michel
Jul 1, 20226 min read


How to Look at Paintings.
Slow down, have a seat, and stay away from the information plaques. of the first and best lessons I was ever given was from my art...
Ellen Michel
Jun 27, 20224 min read


Two Paintings that Capture Claude Monet’s Relentless Development as an Artist.
How did Monet go from one to the other? https://linktr.ee/cpjones On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt (1868) by Claude Monet. Oil on...
Ellen Michel
Jun 22, 20225 min read


Desert Library Morocco, 2020
I wandered in search, of what makes me human, Down to the creek bed, along the corridors of the library, made eons before words and...
Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read


Christmas Moon, Queen of Heaven At 11.11pm, 25th December, 2015.
Silver Ball, Sparkling illuminant Light my black heart, with songs so nascent, Sing me a song, of ancient ocean tides, rising and falling...
Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Three Goat Farm
It says on the Gate ‘Three Goat Farm’ Your pretty little heads, dark brown and black nod gently at farmer Jo. Your beards dangling under...
Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Om Padme hum
Melt the mind and enchant the heart These two no longer set apart, To seek the lotus of the light, Is to seek the day but find the night,...
Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read


Tent and Homemaking - 6.30pm 24/7/2010
My tent billows and tugs, like a boat on an anchor rope. The great easterly springs to life. cooling the scorched earth. Tiny beads of...
Ellen Michel
Jun 11, 20221 min read


Wild Wonder Wisdom
My Poem Speaks, When I taste the yoke of my soul. The quest to taste the yoke and grasp the poetry, Here in W.A, north of Perth, As far...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Moon Journey, 31/7/20
Last night I took a journey, across the moon, Guided by a periwinkle star, I mapped it as we went, through massive caverns, on the Milky...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Drumming Awakens the deep Soul 2000.
Drums beat, Heart beat, The dark moon Hangs overhead. The Wind blows. The palm tree sways on the beaches edge. My mountain island protect...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Ecstatic Intersection. 2000.
Amid the starlight the moon is waning. Moon too bright and sensual captivates my being, Dance me through the starry sky, play me a tune...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read


Poem for Adolescence, The Joker.
The harlequin, court jester, the trickster, You are a humorous treasure. The secret and the meaning you hold. You are the crossing, the...
Ellen Michel
Jun 5, 20221 min read
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