worlds within worlds

notes from the drifting spaces

Blair’s art notes…

About Blair

Season’s Greetings

Dec 15, 2024

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ❄️ Here is my Season’s Greetings card, with a sketch of rock strata […]
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Exhibition at Dundee Botanic Gardens

Oct 18, 2024

TRACES OF SHODŌMargaret Kerr and Blair Shōgen Thomson Green Gallery: University of Dundee Botanic GardenRiverside Drive, Dundee DD2 1QH30th Oct – 19th Nov 2024 This exhibition shows a series of […]
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Bristol University Japanese Calligraphy Workshop

May 22, 2024

In the Arts Complex of Bristol University at the end of April, Blair presented two taster Japanese Shodō calligraphy workshops with a Zen theme, for the Buddhist Studies Day in […]
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Bristol University award received at the Bristol Beacon

May 3, 2024

I was delighted and surprised to be awarded the University of Bristol Outstanding PLUS Award: Wellbeing Champion for the 2023/24 academic year. Here is an excerpt from the university blog […]
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Season’s Greetings ❄☃

Dec 11, 2023

Hope you are keeping cosy and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday Here is my Season’s Greetings card, an an abstracted view (actually a few […]
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Renga: place and time entwined

Nov 5, 2023

Exhibition organised by Margaret Kerr 5th – 25th November 2023Green Gallery, Dundee University Botanical Gardens About this exhibition This exhibition features work by eight artists who spent an August weekend […]
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Season’s Greetings

Dec 9, 2022

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ❄️ Here is my Season’s Greetings card, an aerial inspired one of Glasgow […]
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Exhibition in Japan

May 15, 2022

Blair participated in the ART/X/TOYAMA international exhibition in Japan in May 2022. ART/X/TOYAMA is a contemporary public exhibition showing artworks from Japanese and international invited artists, and has been held […]
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Season’s Greetings ❄️

Dec 18, 2021

Hope you are keeping well and wishing you a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and New Year holiday ☃️ 最近の2021年のアートワークは絵と写真と書道といろいろ。 I’ve been fortunate to practice different styles of Shodo calligraphy, jazzy […]
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