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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · 18d

A foggy start with spidery jewels.

#Calderdale #trailrunning #Yorkshiretrails

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Sep 29

Golden light on Midgley moor with a sea of cloud below.

#Calderdale #trailrunning #Yorkshiretrails

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Sep 5

My collage artwork has taken a back seat in recent weeks while I've been getting organised around a new creative project. More on that to follow, but for now here's Number 78 enjoying a recent sunny spell down by Cragg Brook.

#art #collage #collageart

Photograph of a small, mixed media, abstract collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The artwork is standing on a mini easel on a rock. The stream and opposite bank are visible behind, out of focus.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Aug 26

This gave me the smiles I needed this morning. Thank you, boater/s of #hebdenbridge 😁😁

Photograph of a marrow standing stalk upright in a tyre that is lying flat on top of a narrow boat. The boat is mid blue with a warm yellow roof. Terraced houses rise directly from the far canal embankment.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Aug 17

A stroll out, frequently interrupted by the curse of the blackberry sea.

Photograph with a bramble patch in the near foreground, taken from a footpath near Hand Carr Farm, with woodland and Midgley Moor looking very lovely under sunny skies in the distance on the other side of the Calder valley.

Lyrics to a ditty, laid out in white against a dark purple background:

Blackberry sea
Oh blackberry sea
Wave upon wave of you
Calling to me
All sundrenched and plump
A soft delicacy
I want to dive into
The blackberry sea

Blackberry sea
Oh blackberry sea
You don't understand
What you're doing to me
I've plundered your depths
Still you won't let me be
My willpower's drowned
By the blackberry sea

Blackberry sea
Oh blackberry sea
Until you're all gone
I shan't ever be free
My fingers are stained
And I won't want my tea
But I still can't resist
That sweet blackberry sea

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ever get the feeling you're being watched??

A make-it-up-as-you-go trail run on an overcast Mytholmroyd morning, which turned out to feature Broadhead Clough, Bell House Moor (complete with bovine onlookers), Swan Bank and St John the Baptist in the Wilderness.

#Calderdale #trailrunning

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jul 18

Highlights from this morning's trail run - a curious artefact, a small visitor taking a break from city life and a pause to drink in the 360 degree views from Crow Hill before heading home.

#Calderdale

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jun 27

Number 73, avidly people watching from its new vantage point along the Hebden Bridge Open Studios Window Trail.

Big thanks to Weighsted for making my small canvases so welcome.

#art #collage #collageart #calderdale #hbopenstudios25 #hebdenbridge #hebdenbridgeopenstudios

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jun 21

#solstice sunrise, Midgley Moor

Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jun 16

Number 76, taking a moment to unwind in the glorious Calderdale countryside and reflect on the meaning of life on canvas... before heading to Hebden Bridge Town Hall for the Open Studios exhibition (until 6th July).

#art #collage #collageart #hbopenstudios25 #artexhibition #hebdenbridgeopenstudios

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jun 13

Number 77, seeking a shady spot.

#art #collage #collageart #calderdale

Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of blues, yellows, greens and burn oranges. The artwork is set against a backdrop of dry, brown leaves and fresh green new foliage.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · May 31

May.

Hasn't quite converted me from autumn to #spring, but it's been a blooming good effort.

Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · May 16

Treated myself to a Friday afternoon needle tip bottle applicator extravaganza.

#art #BrandNewSentence

Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of browns and blues.

Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of greens and dark greys.

Photograph of a detail from some abstract, mixed media work on paper in a colour palette of greens, blues and greys.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · May 9

Can't get round a run without finding something fabulous to stop and smoosh my face into.

#spring #wisteria

Close up photograph of a cluster of wisteria flowers, cascading in pea-like blooms that are lilac, pink and yellow.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Apr 25

Number 75, out on the tops enjoying the morning sunshine.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale

Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a varied colour palette. The collage is displayed on a mini easel on top of a dark dry stone wall. Behind, slightly out of focus, is a field leading to another wall will blue sky and fluffy white clouds above.

Photograph of the view from Broadhead Clough, just below Erringden Moor, towards Mytholmroyd, Calderdale. The narrow track in the foreground is bordered by grass, heather and bilberry bushes as well as some small trees just coming into leaf. To the left is a dark dry stone wall. In the distance the ground rises again beyond the valley. The sky is blue with white and grey fluffy clouds.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Apr 11

Number 74, out and about on a frosty when you leave the house but way too hot in all your layers after about five minutes kind of morning.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Apr 6

A few of last month's outdoorsy moments and creative outputs, featuring glimmers of spring and an odd place to no longer catch a bus.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Mar 14

Hi Katie, thank you and apologies for the late response, I must have missed the notification.

The little collage canvases are 10cm square.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Mar 14

Number 70, living life on the hedge.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale

Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of blues, brown, greens and yellows. The collage is lying flat on top of a coniferous hedge that has golden-green foliage.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Mar 7

Number 69, making itself at home amongst the rusted metal, stone, moss and lichens.

#art #collage #collageart #Calderdale

Photograph of a small mixed media collage on canvas, featuring organic and geometric textures and patterns in a colour palette of yellows, golds, browns and greens. The collage is lying flat amongst moss and lichens on a stone surface, partially covering a rusted metal bar that runs nearly vertically across the stone on the right hand side.

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Feb 28

A gorgeous cluster of ridiculously vivid undergrowth-dwellers. I'm no expert but these have to be Scarlet Elfcups, don't they??

#fungi #Calderdale

Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Feb 21

Introducing #68 (Grassland Fungi), currently part of the Ancient Underlands exhibition at Hebden Bridge Town Hall.

#art #Calderdale #artexhibition #collage #collageart

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jan 31

A grey, misty Friday morning run above the clouds, then home for a splash of colour working on my new collage materials.

#art #collage #collageart

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jan 10

Making materials for my next collage project.

#art #collage #collageart

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Esther Waite @estherwaite.bsky.social · Jan 5

😂🤣

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