Hi
Long time has gone since I last posted anything.
I have been busy painting and not looking out for my two blogs.
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| I dug up under the groundwall. Lots to repair So the rats can't get into the house. Had to drive 3 times to get Sand and Cement. |
The last time in my families summer house was used mostly for repairs ,
gardening and visits. Not painting as much as I had planned.
The garden looked like a jungle .
If the grass is not cut every week, it can grow up to 1,30 m when left alone.
Then the cutter can't deal with it. My oldest son helped with the lane this year.
I had a problem with "murder snails".
Tried soap, cutting them with a scissor , trowing boiling water on them,
but nothing helped, new kept sliding their way in.
They ate my roses and crawled in through the open windows!
The dead snails attract the living, who eat them and everything else they find.
So leaving the dead snails on the lane just invited more.
I therefor collected the living ones in a bucket and threw boiling water or salt on .
And carried the bucket with it's stinking content into the woods.
Next day there was again around 40 new snails per square meter.
I had a problem with "murder snails".
Tried soap, cutting them with a scissor , trowing boiling water on them,
but nothing helped, new kept sliding their way in.
They ate my roses and crawled in through the open windows!
The dead snails attract the living, who eat them and everything else they find.
So leaving the dead snails on the lane just invited more.
I therefor collected the living ones in a bucket and threw boiling water or salt on .
And carried the bucket with it's stinking content into the woods.
Next day there was again around 40 new snails per square meter.
Every day for two months I spend one hour morning and evening removing snails.
A whole bucket a day! A Sisyfos work !
But the ones who are clever say it the only way to fight them!
A whole bucket a day! A Sisyfos work !
But the ones who are clever say it the only way to fight them!
Maria Björklund my dearest friend came over.
We spend the time good.
Painting ,sewing ,reading, discussing, watching movies
Cooking Turkish and Persian food.........
Discussing our next big painting project and
repairing our Ottoman costumes
Maria is a great inspiration.
We spend the time good.
Painting ,sewing ,reading, discussing, watching movies
Cooking Turkish and Persian food.........
Discussing our next big painting project and
repairing our Ottoman costumes
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| Pia Ranslet Maria sewing wearing a Bedouin dress Acrylics on canvas Sketch |
Maria is a great inspiration.
Her garden in the South of Sweden is Paradise itself.
Like a wild English garden with thousands of roses in all colors.
Maria has always been extremely generous
and of cause she dug up half her Rose garden and brought it to me.
and of cause she dug up half her Rose garden and brought it to me.
I hope the deer family in my garden and the winter won't finish them !
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| One of the daily visitors Taken before the lane was cut with the Clipper. |
Thought I'll show some of my old pictures and sketches with houses on.
The farm Bukkegaard where I lived as a teenager
was from 1500 or 1600 according to old maps.
We only found prof o f later times on a wooden balk in the house
that had the year 1730 cut into it.
The farm was very beautiful and kept perfect by my parents.
Every year in the spring it was painted!
White chalk for the walls and black tar for the ground wall
and some thin black varnish for the cross wood.
We grew a big kitchen garden with Strawberries
Currants and lots of vegetables!
And we kept one field for our horses.
The rest of the fields were rented to a neighbor Farmer.
My parents both artists had each huge workshops
and used one barn for exhibition of our Artworks.
I used to sit up on the tallest chimney on my father's workshop and paint the landscape
that spread out underneath towards the sea.
But I also painted our farm.
The farm Bukkegaard where I lived as a teenager
was from 1500 or 1600 according to old maps.
We only found prof o f later times on a wooden balk in the house
that had the year 1730 cut into it.
The farm was very beautiful and kept perfect by my parents.
Every year in the spring it was painted!
White chalk for the walls and black tar for the ground wall
and some thin black varnish for the cross wood.
We grew a big kitchen garden with Strawberries
Currants and lots of vegetables!
And we kept one field for our horses.
The rest of the fields were rented to a neighbor Farmer.
My parents both artists had each huge workshops
and used one barn for exhibition of our Artworks.
I used to sit up on the tallest chimney on my father's workshop and paint the landscape
that spread out underneath towards the sea.
But I also painted our farm.
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| Pia Ranslet Bukkegaard Oil on Canvas |
Too lazy to finish painting the roof tiles.
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| Pia Ranslet The passage on Bukkegaard Watercolors on paper |
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| Pia Ranslet Bukkegaard in spring Watercolor on Paper |
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| Pia Ranslet The Passage Sunset on Bukkegaard Oil on Canvas |
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| Pia Ranslet Bukkegard in Autumn Drawing |
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| Pia Ranslet The passage on Bukkegaard Watercolor on Paper |
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| Pia Ranslet Bukkegaard with the Passage in the summer Watercolor on Paper |
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Pia Ranslet Bukkegaard trough the Port opening Watercolor on handmade paper |
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| Pia Ranslet Farms after the rain. Acrylics on Canvas |
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| Pia Ranslet Aakirkeby in the summertime Oil on Canvas |
And then to Kashmir in India
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| Pia Ranslet The green balcony in Srinagar Watercolor on Paper |
The mechanic workshop was owned by Sikhs.
They were so kind and smiling.
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| Pia Ranslet Mechanic workshop in Srinagar India Watercolor on Paper |
Then a trip to Nepal
Where I and my travel companion Bjarne were invited
by the chief Budhist Katmandu to stay
on a very remote Monastery Kagang close to the border of Tibet.
It took 6 days walking to get up there in 4000 meters height.
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| Pia Ranslet The Bakang Monastery in Nepal Watercolor on paper |
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Pia Ranslet The Bakang Monastery Watercolor on paper |
Back to India
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| Pia Ranslet Laundry in Rajasthan Watercolor on Paper |
And then to Jerusalem.
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| Pia Ranslet The Latrun Monastery Watercolor on Paper |
Latrun is a beautiful Monastery lying in the Hills on the way to Jerusalem.
I spent some time painting there.
It's a monastery for Trappist Monks ,we also have a monastery on Bornholm.
And from one of many trips to Florence in Italy.
This beautiful Church I visited many times.I could sit alone in peace on the graveyard and paint .
It had the most marvelous view of Florence.
And was only a short walk from the Villa Belvedere ,
that back then had very nice sculptures exhibited..
I spent some time painting there.
It's a monastery for Trappist Monks ,we also have a monastery on Bornholm.
And from one of many trips to Florence in Italy.
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| Pia Ranslet Ponte Vechio Firenze Pencil on paper |
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| Pia Ranslet San Miniato Firenze Watercolor on Paper |
This beautiful Church I visited many times.I could sit alone in peace on the graveyard and paint .
It had the most marvelous view of Florence.
And was only a short walk from the Villa Belvedere ,
that back then had very nice sculptures exhibited..
