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Marianne Stokes
The second paragraph to your introduction considers her paintings largely in private collections and rarely in public exhibits as perhaps accounting for Marianne Stokes' more or less non-visibility on the 21st-century art scene.
Is there any ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/17/2023
Marianne Stokes
Thank you so much for highlighting this lady's work, It is absolutely beautiful and quite new to me. The way she uses unusual shades is inspirational and her attention to detail is excellent.
Veronica, on 08/17/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
You Americans have impressive regulations. We have nothing like them. We could take a leaf out of America's book.
frankbeswick, on 08/16/2023
Marianne Stokes
The third sentence in the first paragraph to your introduction concludes that Marianne Stokes left a legacy mostly forgotten within less than 100 years.
Is that the same fate of her husband's art legacy and works? Wikipedia mentions Adrian ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
Hobby farms on this, western-pond side must be under 50 acres (20.23 hectares) and show profits never or no more often than one or two out of every five years. Their owners operate them as holiday and weekend homes for garden-, horse-, livestock ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The fairy tales that I'm most familiar with as films are Cinderella (directed by Kenneth Branagh) and La belle et la bête.
It looks like Snow White will be among the 2024-released films.
Won't it be interesting to see how faithful to such ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
True, but some land is wasted. Take the example of hobby farms. Some farms are kept as rich people's playgrounds, when the country's need for food should necessitate their cultivation.
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
This isn't an excuse but is one of the reasons for intensive agriculture in the British Isles the limited amount of land available for cultivation?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Harvest Bounty of Fall Fruits
It's helpful that your last paragraph lists junk fruit as ultimately not as healthy and tasty as fruit. It's lamentable too all the many more calories that junk food lodges in our bodies.
Mightn't junk food also be criticized for such bad ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Marianne Stokes
Your introductory paragraph observes that Adrian and Marianne Stokes sometimes worked and exhibited together.
Might that working together mean that they sometimes did their art in the same locale for on-site painting or in their same at-home ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/15/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
The Norwegian fells are higher than the Lake District fells and they are richer florally than the British fells because intensive agriculture has not been practised there.
frankbeswick, on 08/15/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Your recently released wizzley on painteress Marianne Stokes includes her painting of Snow White in her glass coffin.
Is the Stokes painting a particularly beloved, esteemed representation?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/14/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The blue-windowed and the pink-walled kitchen in the image between the Kitchen and the Dining Room subheadings and the blue repainting of a pink chair or the pink repainting of a blue chair in the image between the Children's Room and the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/14/2023
Wild Fell: a wild life Warden's Experiences
The first paragraph to your second subheading, The life of the Fells, links the English word fell with the Norse word fjell.
That subheading's fourth paragraph mentions a trip to southwest Norway because of the latter's geological resemblances ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/14/2023
Harvest Bounty of Fall Fruits
My favorites are berries (especially cranberries), pears, pineapples, pomegranates and pumpkins.
Pumpkins always hold a special place because isn't it great that, even as actual fruit, they will work in fruit- and vegetable-style presentations, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/14/2023