At Last a new Post!

At Last a new Post!
New House Ideas & Tibetan Thangkas
Sunday 7 February 2010
I'm thinking of selling my house and building a smaller, more eco friendly place nearby. It's good fun doing drawings and dreaming about it. It's a timber framed double yurt shaped construction with a covered balcony running round the outside. Here are a couple of sketches:
Last year I started selling Anatolian kilims. They are made in an ancient tradition and contain symbolism, including Goddess motifs going back to the first settled prehistoric culture in Europe, some 6,000 years ago in Çatal Huyuk and Hacilar, Anatolia. I am selling a few on eBay but mainly from home, at a couple of local markets on my sculpture-ireland.com website where there's a section for the antique Anatolian kilims. Plus i'm selling off some of the antique and ethnic objects I have accumulated over the years in my eBay shop to help save up for a year off work, more travel, building that double yurt shaped house and spending some time in Dharamsala and Tso Pema in India. There are some weird and wonderful things if you are curious to see, from 18th century silk breeches, an Indian sari and old stuffed toy animals to antique Venetian trade beads, Afghan jewelry and a Tibetan thangkas and a big conch shell trumpet.