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Just a few days left in the office before Christmas. Just so you all know, I will be off from 4pm on the 19th and back in on January 2nd. So I thought I would set the first challenge for 2020 before I go. It's a New Year poem by Matt Goodfellow which I hope will inspire some more beautiful paintings:
Something's moving in,
I hear the weather in the wind,
sense the tension of a sheep-field
and the pilgrimage of fins.
Something’s not the same,
I taste the sap and feel the grain,
hear the rolling of the rowan
ringing, singing in a change.
Something’s set to start,
there’s meadow-music in the dark
and the clouds that shroud the mountain
slowly, softly start to part.
The 2019 challenges have been brilliant - thanks to everyone who has taken part. I hope you are enjoying seeing examples of your forum challenge work on the new e-newsletters each month.
I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year. Let's see what PO brings in 2020!
Posted
Very best wishes and big thanks to Dawn and the POL team for another inspiring and enjoyable year. I hope you have an excellent well-deserved Christmas / New Year, and a happy and creative 2020. At least the worst of the new site implementation will be out of the way! (I'll wish my fellow artists the best of the season when I manage to upload something).
