A Celebration of Diane's wonderful, talented sisters Laura and Helga
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Laura Windle
1961 - 2014
Artist, singer, songwriter
composer, film-maker
Bachelor Of Arts, First Class Honours Degree in Visual and Performing Arts from Brighton Polytechnic
Laura Windle was a true polymath as suggested in her choice of Degree which she passed with a First, both in Visual and Performing Arts. She was an award winning performer as a vocalist and pianist in a wide variety bands in Brighton.
Laura’s degree show included paintings in oil and acrylic together with prints, photographs and short films, the show sold out and Laura continued to experiment with a variety of materials and techniques throughout her career.
Laura first studied fashion design at Medway College of Design in Kent and then moved to London where she lived and worked until deciding to continue here studies in Brighton.
She was lead vocalist with the David Ingledew Band and she also founded the Brighton based Jazz band The City Birds, performing Jazz Standards and original compositions. Laura was a member of the country’s leading Symphony Chorus The Brighton Festival Chorus with whom she toured throughout the UK and Europe.
Laura was obviously a busy performer but always kept up her love of composition working on ideas for film and television but also composing with her brother Kevan, as life long collaborators and performers with numerous incarnations of their bands. But they were best know locally for their performances as Three Girl Rumba.
Three Girl Rumba created a unique blend of hypnotic, pulsing yet melodic sounds juxtaposed with haunting, drifting, echoing voices all performed by Laura and Kevan.
1961 - 2014
Artist, singer, songwriter
composer, film-maker
Bachelor Of Arts, First Class Honours Degree in Visual and Performing Arts from Brighton Polytechnic
Laura Windle was a true polymath as suggested in her choice of Degree which she passed with a First, both in Visual and Performing Arts. She was an award winning performer as a vocalist and pianist in a wide variety bands in Brighton.
Laura’s degree show included paintings in oil and acrylic together with prints, photographs and short films, the show sold out and Laura continued to experiment with a variety of materials and techniques throughout her career.
Laura first studied fashion design at Medway College of Design in Kent and then moved to London where she lived and worked until deciding to continue here studies in Brighton.
She was lead vocalist with the David Ingledew Band and she also founded the Brighton based Jazz band The City Birds, performing Jazz Standards and original compositions. Laura was a member of the country’s leading Symphony Chorus The Brighton Festival Chorus with whom she toured throughout the UK and Europe.
Laura was obviously a busy performer but always kept up her love of composition working on ideas for film and television but also composing with her brother Kevan, as life long collaborators and performers with numerous incarnations of their bands. But they were best know locally for their performances as Three Girl Rumba.
Three Girl Rumba created a unique blend of hypnotic, pulsing yet melodic sounds juxtaposed with haunting, drifting, echoing voices all performed by Laura and Kevan.
Helga Windle
1955 – 2008
Artist
Helga Windle studied Fine Art at Nottingham University. She went on to be a prolific artist,
with shows in UK, Iceland, USA, New Zealand and China.
She said: "I paint about myself, my life and the world around me in a non-representational way."
Helga could always be found drawing in her sketchbook about her day-to-day life, and produced hundreds of Modern Art paintings. She painted many landscapes of Iceland, the country of her birth. and New Zealand, the country she lived in. there Helga opened an Arts Centre in a Church on the west coast of South Island
She was heavily involved in art in the community and in school projects. Helga undertook many art projects in the landscape, like “The Bench” on Shoreham Beach, and “Icarus and the Mermaid”, in Bolsover, Rugby.
1955 – 2008
Artist
Helga Windle studied Fine Art at Nottingham University. She went on to be a prolific artist,
with shows in UK, Iceland, USA, New Zealand and China.
She said: "I paint about myself, my life and the world around me in a non-representational way."
Helga could always be found drawing in her sketchbook about her day-to-day life, and produced hundreds of Modern Art paintings. She painted many landscapes of Iceland, the country of her birth. and New Zealand, the country she lived in. there Helga opened an Arts Centre in a Church on the west coast of South Island
She was heavily involved in art in the community and in school projects. Helga undertook many art projects in the landscape, like “The Bench” on Shoreham Beach, and “Icarus and the Mermaid”, in Bolsover, Rugby.
Emma Nightingale
BA Hons Fine Art
b.1997, Chertsey. London / New Zealand based
Emma Nightingale studied Fine Art at Falmouth University, graduating with First-Class Honours in 2019. As an emerging artist Emma has exhibited in Cornwall, London and New Zealand, as well as completing a residency at the famous Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.
The domestic becomes fragmented then curated – by the marks of my pencil and the thread of my stitch – to lie in limbo between the familiar and uncanny.
I utilise the intimacies of craft to establish familial relationships between places and things – giving physical form to notions of home, upbringing and the self.
BA Hons Fine Art
b.1997, Chertsey. London / New Zealand based
Emma Nightingale studied Fine Art at Falmouth University, graduating with First-Class Honours in 2019. As an emerging artist Emma has exhibited in Cornwall, London and New Zealand, as well as completing a residency at the famous Porthmeor Studios in St Ives.
The domestic becomes fragmented then curated – by the marks of my pencil and the thread of my stitch – to lie in limbo between the familiar and uncanny.
I utilise the intimacies of craft to establish familial relationships between places and things – giving physical form to notions of home, upbringing and the self.
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Maggie’s poetry March 2020
Maggie Pollock has been a campaigner for the community in the local area. She spent much of her career working in education, and has always had a creative streak. Maggie was the inspiration for the Arts Corner.
Coming from a large family, plus cats, dogs, budgies and chickens I had to shout to be heard. Reading allowed me a place to go and writing doggerel is a nod to my working class roots. I have no ambition but to put smiles on people’s faces.
Maggie Pollock has been a campaigner for the community in the local area. She spent much of her career working in education, and has always had a creative streak. Maggie was the inspiration for the Arts Corner.
Coming from a large family, plus cats, dogs, budgies and chickens I had to shout to be heard. Reading allowed me a place to go and writing doggerel is a nod to my working class roots. I have no ambition but to put smiles on people’s faces.
Lockdown Lidl
The sun was shining…I took my chance…wrapped my face in a scarf
kept my distance.
The chill in the air made my cheeks glow…hadn’t been out for a week or so
my muscles were weak … I could hear my knees creak.
I was off to Lidl, groceries to seek.
I scanned the view but all I saw was the queue from the door…”only two in” cried the guard
as we shuffled
slowly but surely
our protests muffled
we moved to the front
so exuberant.
Pushing my trolley across the tiles
I exchanged with the guard small tentative smiles as he let me in.
Now the dance could begin…
the long empty aisles so smooth and so wide
I chasse’d with joy from side to side …a fleckerl here… a volta there
a reverse by the courgettes
oh.. look at the frame of that pair in front !
they are obviously taking bets
on who can fleckerl the best
without touching.
Our faces averted ..so nobody flirted
with six foot of space between
what could we do?
Not a word spoken…our trolley token the price paid.
Not even an eye dance
that many would flirt with to get themselves laid…the goggles and masks saw to that.
Our trollies swung left
Our baskets swung right…we scrambled for cartons of Muller Lite…cheese packets
tumbled…cornflakes were crumbled…bananas went flying…onions were crying
or was it the leeks ?
I swung round each corner …and froze
when a body swung round the corner the same.
Measuring tiles…were we six foot apart?...and a third body doing the same
The cashier was smiling
behind a new frame
on his counter
where the bill
for my purchases came
I wished him well
as I danced away…all Lidled out… for today
The Queens Speech
They say the Queen is to give a speech at 8pm on Sunday
reaching out across the land to cheer us on for Monday.
sitting next to her silken lamp hung with golden tassles
her specs perched on the end of her nose
furry slippers covering her toes under the desk
where the corgis doze… free from care and hassles.
It can’t be much fun being a Monarch when your family disagree
but every family can feel like that when family members cause a spat…
gritted teeth…a slammed door…somebodies dog puddling the floor
or was that Philip?
I used to tell my children ” remember what I say….if it would make Nanny smile
then DO it…if she WOULDN’T smile…then don’t! “
Imagined Nan, watching their play, served to remind them of will or won’t.
It can’t be much fun being Queenie…being asked to help lay down the rules,
on how we should act …and how we should be…when all Grannies want is just a babe on their knee,
their family nearby, and a nice cup of tea…and Countdown.
So the nation’s Nan is talking on Sunday…we will all tune in this time
to hear what she says…to smile at her face …to hope that her goodness and her grace
will send the message that we need to hear…
“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? …. YOU KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG!
DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD…FOLLOW THE RULES!
….right ….Now Carry On ! “
They say the Queen is to give a speech at 8pm on Sunday
reaching out across the land to cheer us on for Monday.
sitting next to her silken lamp hung with golden tassles
her specs perched on the end of her nose
furry slippers covering her toes under the desk
where the corgis doze… free from care and hassles.
It can’t be much fun being a Monarch when your family disagree
but every family can feel like that when family members cause a spat…
gritted teeth…a slammed door…somebodies dog puddling the floor
or was that Philip?
I used to tell my children ” remember what I say….if it would make Nanny smile
then DO it…if she WOULDN’T smile…then don’t! “
Imagined Nan, watching their play, served to remind them of will or won’t.
It can’t be much fun being Queenie…being asked to help lay down the rules,
on how we should act …and how we should be…when all Grannies want is just a babe on their knee,
their family nearby, and a nice cup of tea…and Countdown.
So the nation’s Nan is talking on Sunday…we will all tune in this time
to hear what she says…to smile at her face …to hope that her goodness and her grace
will send the message that we need to hear…
“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? …. YOU KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG!
DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD…FOLLOW THE RULES!
….right ….Now Carry On ! “
Lesley on a Saturday morning walk
Lesley Robinson Photographs
A trip to Bhutan to share experiences of weaving and dyeing If only a global pandemic had not got in the way……..
After a working life teaching primary aged pupils when I finally decided to retire I was determined to take every opportunity to learn new skills, go to new places and have fun.
A constant in my life has been knitting, sewing and an enjoyment of textile crafts. I also love walking and being outside. So mostly holidays have included workshops on dyeing, extending my knitting/sewing skills and finding out about textile crafts. I am planning a walking and knitting holiday in Shetland later this year (I don’t think you do them both at the same time). I have just bought a book and a special needle to try Nalbinding!
A trip to Bhutan to share experiences of weaving and dyeing If only a global pandemic had not got in the way……..
After a working life teaching primary aged pupils when I finally decided to retire I was determined to take every opportunity to learn new skills, go to new places and have fun.
A constant in my life has been knitting, sewing and an enjoyment of textile crafts. I also love walking and being outside. So mostly holidays have included workshops on dyeing, extending my knitting/sewing skills and finding out about textile crafts. I am planning a walking and knitting holiday in Shetland later this year (I don’t think you do them both at the same time). I have just bought a book and a special needle to try Nalbinding!
