You may remember that in recent months I have posted about painting a couple of scarves with a tree-like design. Here’s another silk scarf in this, my ‘Jiann’, series. Reviewing the photos of my working process, I can see I was unconsciously inspired by a bunch of flowers gently fading away in the studio at the time of painting.
This is a mildly surprising revelation as I’d thought I’d pulled this deep and rich palette of burgundy, claret and port wine colours solely from my imagination. Silly me.
The style and design is the same as Jiann Burnt Orange that you can just see in the photo below. It’s the orange textile hanging behind the pot of paint brushes. It was so hung in a prominent place to remind me what I was supposed to be aiming for.
You can sort of see it is the same design, but as is often the way by the time I get to painting the fourth or fifth in a series it’s all becoming bigger and looser and, dare I say it, more splodgy.
Anyway this muted red version is finally finished, steamed and on the shop.
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Agnes Ashe 
It turns out that our minds (my mind anyway) are empty vessels waiting to be filled with – oh, dying flowers, any old thing. But in your case, translated into a rich and engaging design. Lovely.
Thank you, but you know I am always looking everywhere, anywhere for ideas. Plus knowing it’s all been done before and often 100s of times.
Beautiful, rich colours
Thank you. I do like dark reds.
So do I!
Delightful to see the process of designing your scarves and the striking colours you use.
I think I am in a dark red phase – generally, and with everything!
Hope it doesn’t get darker.
Thank you. I’ve just spent a weekend in London with my daughter and my sister and her family. It was uplifting. The weather was good, the food was fine, the theatre was excellent and so was the one exhibition I managed to fit in. It was a big mixing with ‘people’ for me after the two and half years of Covid quiet.
Hope you and the rollator have been out and about enjoying the autumn and not caught any of the horrid colds doing the rounds.
Thanks for the encouragement going out with the rollator, I did catch a cold but it has gone in 10 days and I didn’t have to stay at home!
Yes, I know about that cold. Think I caught it too at the weekend. Tested for Covid just in case, but clear. Glad you’re better now.
I did the same, also negative.
And a perfect reflection as you enter the change of season. I can’t imagine, how, try as you might, that you could produce two scarves even highly similar, let alone almost identical.
It does depend on how much free-flowing dyes are used. That is not really controllable, but drawing out should be reproducible. I am just not that careful, patient or consistent, but it’s not exactly important in the scale of things. You know pandemics, wars and the chaos of UK politics!!!! đŸ™„
And I woke today to the news of Liz Truss’s resignation. So, she has two claims to fame: The last UK PM to be sworn in by QEII, and the shortest serving PM. Impressive CV!
Yes, she really is the living expression of the triumph of rampant ambition over any true talent or ability.
And now you have yet another Oxfordian, or Etonian – or whatever. He’s not your average knockaround bloke.
Over here some of us know him as the ‘first Goldman Sachs PM’.
Let’s hope is prior experience is useful…
Me and all I know are hoping for an early General Election.
Ours are held every three years. I’m an advocate for longer terms, but looking at your current experience, I am having second thoughts.
Oh I didn’t know that. I think three years isn’t really long enough. I think the French were sensible to reduce their Presidency from seven to five years, but when they’re as useless as our lot at the moment even five years seems too long and right now I’d like your system.