on line shop is open

The online shop is open again. There are paper moths and bees and small moth paintings for sale.

Press the button below to go to the Big Cartel shop or you can access it from the SHOP link in the menu. Please have a browse. If you have any queries or requests - please contact me. thank you. Les

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Assorted paper moths for sale - Lesley Kendall, 2019

into the arid zone

The work table in the studio is full of wonderful thorny specimens from the botanical gardens.

Handle with care!

the desert is oozing power”
don Juan whispered in my ear
”there is no time to be timid”
— Carlos Castenanda

thorny poetry

For the month of April I will be in the arid zone.......

I am meeting Steve,the supervisor of this area of the botanical gardens,  on Friday. I will be focusing on Southern African succulents and have some ideas for 'arid zone inspired' sculptures. I'm excited!

‘So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch it’s own thorny poetry on the enormous moon’
— Douglas Woolf