Julie Newman, visual artist

wheelhousemusings

  • This morning I heard a magpie…

    This morning I heard a magpie shout… Raucous and loud, chattering in rhythms of eight… And thought of my Mother… Her eyes narrowed as she looked about… Searching it out… She peered around for the source of troubles untold… But those that are about to unfold On her unsuspecting family… The Common Magpie, or Pica…

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  • Celestial Navigation

    (Image from NASA) Early sailors would probably want to stay within sight of land in order to stay safe as they had no obvious means of navigation. However, as their expertise in recognising star patterns, direction of the waves and swell, the colour of the sea and the behaviour of the birds extended, so grew…

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  • The Vernal Equinox

    (image from NASA) The Vernal Equinox, or Spring Equinox will happen this year on March 20th at 21.58 GMT. This is the point at which the sun moves around the equator and the Northern Hemisphere will start to tip towards the sun. The Algonquin name for the March full moon is The Worm Moon and…

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  • The Isle of Dogs

    I was looking through some photos and came across some taken roughly a year ago while having a look at the launch site on Napier Avenue of the SS Great Eastern. It was the largest ship to have been built in its day, 1858, and indeed was too large to launch traditionally….thus it was launched…

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  • International Women’s Day

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  • The Canadian Government Ship Arctic

     In September 1880 Britain ceded the rights of Arctic Sovereignty to Canada which was taken up in 1903 when looking to establish trade routes using the Hudson Bay and Straits….greater grain production and the expansion of markets in the western provinces as the areas became more populated required routes to be created that would…

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  • Hello from the Wheelhouse

    The Wheelhouse is where these musings are being created, as well as any artistic work…or indeed as part of that work. The musings are intended to be a snapshot of myself as the artist, responding to the world around me, and sometimes events that are either current or historic.

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    Hello from the Wheelhouse