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The Holy Grail Pure Love & Romance
| Posted on December 7, 2015 at 8:20 AM |
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 Hi! Antosa believes that Love never Fails for I am a true, blue, pure, Romantic! And what could be more Romantic than the
legend of the Holy Grail one of the most enduring Romantic tales in Western
European Literature & Art. The search for this magical vessel became the
principal quest of the knights of King Arthur, and continues to capture the
imagination even now in the 21st Century Left: "The Damsel of the
Holy Grail" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1874 Bellow: Sir Galahad -
the Quest of the Holy Grail (1870) by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) oil on
canvas Romanticism Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Walker Art Gallery  Writings of the Holy Grail first appear
in a written text in Chrétien de Troyes's Old French verse romance, the Conte
del Graal ('Story of the Grail'), or Perceval, of c.1180.With the passing of the Middle Ages, the
Grail disappears for centuries until the 19th century when medieval history and
legend awoke the interest of writers such as Scott and Tennyson, of the artists
of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and of composers, notably Richard Wagner  Now we live in the 21st Century Love and
Romance is very much alive and the quest for the illusive magical Holy Grail
continues. Antosa believes that there is a Holy Grail that lies within us all a unique cup, chalice that holds Eternity and Everlasting Divine Beauty. A Golden Chalice, A
Heart of Gold, that flows with perfect emotions & Acts of Pure Unconditional Love that emanates from deep from within our Heart and Soul, an ocean of Unconditional Love vibrating within our most Holy of Holy Hearts.  Antosa wishes everyone from the bottom of her
heart to have a wonderful 2015 Festive season And raises a heartfelt chalice of Love, Peace,
Joy & Happiness to one and all as we welcome in the New Year 2016! Love Antosa x Above & Below: Quest for the Holy Grail Tapestries – Panel 6 – The Attainment; The Vision
of the Holy Grail to Sr Galagad Sir Bors & Sr Percival By Sir Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, John Henry Dearle 1895-1896   "I carry your heart with me" By E E Cummings“I Like For You To Be Still” by Pablo Nuruda
Für Elise (Piano version) by Ludwig van Beethoven  |
"C'est la vie
| Posted on November 20, 2015 at 8:27 AM |
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Hi! In life
things don’t always turn out how we think sometimes it is better and sometimes
well it is just life "C'est la vie (below 1st book in series)  Chronicled Adventures of 4 Boys in Africa Vol No 1 The Arabuko Sokoke Forest & The Mysterious lost City of Gedi' By Antosa Isherwood© No
matter which way the wind may blow it is the spirit that lies within that is
what is really important for if you are within, happy, at peace, full of love and joy hey! then C'est la vie
no matter what storms brew externally within you are complete. (click on photo to enlarge)  One only
needs to close ones eyes and another world can open up, what we think in our
heart so we are and we become.Antosa
creates from the heart, seeing first within then it becomes a reality. C'est la vie for the past 3+ or more months Antosa
has been lost, away on a creative high far oh so far away  As a
published children’s author/illustrator in summer of 2015 I started writing a
screen play based on a new series of children’s books. So Antosa has been on this trip away far
away in my imagination and it has been a great summer and one vacation I am not
giving up as I now complete the series. Inspired
by my own life in Kenya C'est la vie ‘you can never tell which way the creative
‘wind spirit air will blow’ For that’s life! for Antosa it has blown to creating the
Chronicled Adventures of ‘4 Boys in Africa Vol 1 and will end with Volume 6! It is
now time to seek an agent so that I can get on with just creating. C'est la
vie’ Envoyer l'amour
juste pour vous Antosa x Ps. I love
the energy of this take on the classic C'est la vie’ by Chuck Berry sung by
Bruce Springsteen enjoy! :) |
Golden Silence/ Autumn Apple Treats
| Posted on October 24, 2015 at 8:42 AM |
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 I took some time off this morning as my young sister gave me a basket of
foraged wild apples that she collected.  I simply could not let these little autumn
treasures go to waste.As I write I have on the go preserves and special ‘Autumn Apple ‘treats  Which I will give to family and friends as I have been in ‘artistic re-treat over the past few months. To one and all please have a wonderful ‘autumn’ there is something special
about each season and the colours of autumn are just spectacular. Take care one is only ever a whisper thought away! |
Feedom 'Roar of the Wild'
| Posted on July 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM |
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 Freedom is not a luxury Freedom is the born right of every living Being Antosa 2015 July 2015 Cecil the African
black maned lion who was brutally slaughtered broke my heart Cecil’s gruesome
death must not be in vain. Living almost half my life in Africa, and loving the wildlife in their natural habitat having such freedom to roam freedom to be I am of the opinion that 'Freedom is not a luxury Freedom is the born right of every living thing' If you ever get the chance to go on an African Safari then please do so you will not regret Antosa has come to understand
that there is good in the worst of human beings and there is bad in the best of
human beings Human Beings have a choice Good or Bad but whatever the individual
chooses has consequences One Act of pure Kindness  In Kenya between 1996 & 1998
I sketched a young African Black Maned lion in Kenya. It had been found by a
Kenyan game ranger severely mauled after a lion fight and on the brink of
death. Over the preceding months ‘Kwanza ‘(No 1 in
Swahili as I called him) was looked after by the Kenyan ranger & nursed
back to health this one act of pure Kindness gave ‘Kwanza’ a second chance of
life in the wild and the right be to be Free for we are all born Free  In dedication to Cecil part of the proceeds
from the prints of ‘Kwanza’ my African Black Maned Lion Sketches will support a
wild life charity for the relocation of Lions giving them a second chance of
Survival. To purchase a print and support the relocation of Lions in Africa please
visit my wildlife page please note Certificate of Authenticity Each Unique Print © has a signed Certificate of Authenticity and is certifired through a hologram carrying the unique number Thank you L Antosa x Ps: Coming
soon : Art Galleries/Art Outlets who stock Antosa’s Exclusive
Black-Maned Lion Prints |
Summer Bee time & Time to be !
| Posted on June 30, 2015 at 10:17 AM |
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 Hi!I took these photos(right & below) on Thursday 25th of June 2015 at the entrance garden of an exquisitely beautiful Carmelite Monastery here in Dysart Fife
Scotland. (click on photos to enlarge) For millions of years these amazing creatures (bees) have been on this magnificent
planet going about their busy bee work even amid all the 'other' goings ons in this world please
remember that  Summer is Bee time!Summer is time to be Simply be You So Please Take time out to be ee at one with all and remember to smell the flowers! :) L Antosa x  Ps below is one of my favourite Romantic Poets and poems by W.B. Yeats also enjoy also the exquisite gentle piano music of Ludovico Einaudi x  Right : The Isle of Innisfree, County Sligo Ireland The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
– W.B. Yeats born June 13th 1865  Left
:Scientists have identified the oldest known bee, a 100 million-year-old
specimen preserved in amber.For more information please view the links
below. |
The Art of living! Best day of my life!
| Posted on June 21, 2015 at 8:26 AM |
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 Hi! This is going to be the best day of my life!  Antosa has been busy Re-Creating my Exclusive Organic top to toe 'Beauty Elixir Oils' As an Art Historian some years ago I researched into the Ancient 'Art of Beauty' and with my 'Holistic'Beauty background created some Exclusive Beauty treatments 'Elixir Oils' which I have used personally for some years For Antosa  Living life is an Art and I just adore Art & life! Every second of every moment I love &
embrace it all I simply Love to live And Live to Love Today is the Summer Solstice enjoy! L Antosa x  |
"Je t'aime." I Love You'
| Posted on June 5, 2015 at 7:29 AM |
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 "Je t'aime." ‘I love you’ Life is so simple  When we just love There are some wonderful people in my life who on a daily
basis I may not see them but every day I think of them and send them a ‘Loving
Hug’ in my mind and say ‘I Love you!’ For Antosa Love is what makes the world go round Love is the essence of all that I am for I believe we are all capable of amazing greatness in life If we just ‘Love’ Have a wonderful week-end L Antosa x |
Scotland Land of Legend, Love and Lore Greetings!
| Posted on May 10, 2015 at 6:14 AM |
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 Scotland on the night of May 8 2015 made Political History a new
Era begins (click on photos to enlarge) Scotland land of my birth full of Legends, Love & Lore for being the
romantic soul that I am I see Scotland through Artistic eyes  Woven into the tapestry of
Scotland are Ancient historic Castles, Cathedrals,
crofts, bothies, fishermen’s cottages for Scotland radiates a special spirit that seeps
through into ones soul. Land of pilgrims, Poets, authors, artists, but none as great as ‘Our Ain Folk’ (left East Fife Male Voice choir June 8th 2004 Rosslyn Chapel Romantic Muical Evening)  And no one loved Scotland more than my late Father James Hamilton Snr he was
in his own words Born & Bred in Scotland and I love this country through and through! Being a Hamilton whose family motto is ‘Through’ My Father truly lived up to
the 'House of Hamilton' family motto ‘Through and through! On his regular visits to Kenya Dad would always sing songs and some of
his favourite sentimental Scottish songs were ‘Bonnie Scotland I Adore
Thee’ & ‘My Ain Folk’ so it is
little wonder that even after living over half of my life in Africa this deep
rooted love of Scotland never left me. (Left:Lion Survival Series Sketch by Antosa © Kenya 1996) I would often in Kenya visit the‘ Highlands’
where on the shores of Lake Naivasha I would spend time painting writing & penning
poetry both countries Scotland and Kenya so far apart but both with the same rugged heart with deep rooted
soul that resonates within one’s own spirit and soul uniting in a knowing oneness of all. Greetings & Love From Antosa's Scotland Land of Legends, Love & Lore Antosa x |
Antosa's Seme d'oro Della vita/Golden Seed of Life!
| Posted on April 27, 2015 at 12:48 PM |
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 Left:'Antosa's Seme d'oro Della vita'back of my D'oro Tempio di Primavera (click on photos to enlarge) Antosa's 'Seme d'oro Della Vitta' Within simplicity lies such complexity &
within Complexity lies such simplicity Antosa 27th April 2015  My latest Art work I started in Spring 2014 & completed Spring 2015! To date it is perhaps one of my more complex 21st Century 3D Biogeometric Artwork Design. I Created on the back of 'D'oro Tempio di Primavera' an ancient symbol the 'Seed of Life' Illuminated in 24carat Gold leaf 'Antosa's 'Seme d'oro Della Vitta' Right:D'oro Tempio di Primavera Below:back Antosa's Seme d'oro Della vita' The 'Seed of Life' Ancients from all over the world … understood
the underlying fabric of the universe, and included it in their artwork and
symbolism. The 'Seed of Life' can be found in ancient manuscripts, temples & churches, mosaics, sarcophagi,
goblets & beakers, textiles, art & jewelry throughout all ancient cultures  The Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt contains the oldest to date example.   Seed and flower of life Beijing, China and the Forbidden Temple where the Sun Gods reside … and the Fu Dogs guard the knowledge: under their paw … Cup with mythological scenes and
flower of life pattern in the bottom visible in Louvre's museum
(Department of Oriental Antiquities), originally from Idalion, Cyprus,
800–700B  Mosaic floor ornament of late Hellenistic period at Roman agora, the archaeological site of Kourion in Cyprus. 75 - 50 BC.  Mosaic floor.House of Poet Glaucus - Pompeii Antosa's 'Seme d'oro Della Vitta' Within simplicity lies such complexity &
within Complexity lies such simplicity Antosa 27th April 2015 Thank you and Please enjoy this music which in blissful moments I adore & love! Antosa x |
Life is A ' Tango'!
| Posted on April 24, 2015 at 4:49 AM |
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 Life is A 'Tango'!We create what we want life to be for Antosa I choose Life to Be A 'Tango'! As Al Pacino said in a scene from 'Scent of a Woman' "No mistakes in the Tango Donna not like life  Simple Thats what makes the Tango So Great If you make a mistake and get all Tangled up you just Tango On"   Antosa loves life& My Life Is A 'Tango' Welcome to my wonderful world of 'Tango'  L Antosa x |
