![]() Discussion Question for Always Play the Dark Horse.“What I Know about Mindfulness and Living into Your Dreams”.“How A Conspiracy Uncovered Came to Be”.For the Love of Language: Story Telling in Many Forms.Book and Screen: The Haunting of Hill House.Ask Questions Write a Story by Carol L. Chester.Adventures in Writing a Historical Novel.“Using Your Equestrian Smarts to Write Great Stories”.“The Truth Is out There – If You Do The Research!”.“Seeking the Source of the Seeker in the Mortar & Pestle Series”.“Play It Again…and Again” by Janet Raye Sevens.“My Deep, Dark Secret As a Writer: I Feared the Blank Page!”.“Listen to Your Characters” Leslie Wheeler.“Inspiration in Unlikely Places” by Mya O’Malley.“For Black History Month-And Every Month”. ![]() “Everyone Knows Geoffrey Chaucer, or Do They?”.“Early American Horror: The Influence of Charles Brockden Brown”.“A Good-Natured Plea from a Mystery Reader”.It’s Your Turn! Guest Blogs from Readers and Writers. ![]() Also in the late 1700s, the technique of producing artificial stone or 'composition stone' for casting copies of statues was perfected by Coade and John Sealy among others, a tradition which continues to this day.Īlthough the classical gods continue to be popular, the 20th Century saw an interest in the use of abstract art to decorate British Gardens, with all manner of free-flowing shapes in stone, granite, marble, bronze and other materials. ![]() Henry Cheere and John van Nost were well known sculptors of the late 18th Century, producing works in stone and lead. Lions often stand guard on steps or in doorways, classical figures would be found in key positions on paths or terraces, dolphins, nymphs and cherubs could be found in fountains. This was much admired by Northern European landscape designers of the period, who then introduced the classical style into British garden design.įrom the 18th to 19th Century statue making again flourished, this time increasing in range, styles and materials to include lions, dogs, fauns, nymphs, putti, gladiators and dolphins. In Renaissance Italy, the gardens of the wealthy aristocracy were strewn with antique stone and marble figures of Classical gods, such as Venus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Diana and Mercury. The ancient Greek and Roman gods have been the main inspiration for statues in British gardens since tudor times. ![]()
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