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Using the heritage of Paisley & Renfrewshire as inspiration for my work as an artist and social historian...😀...!
Joined August 2016
Our main task at todays Women's Heritage group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre was a bit of statistical analysis of the age ranges of inmates using the 1871 census for the Female House of Refuge at 5 Stow Place, Paisley. Who was a "typical" inmate of the Refuge?
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RT @womensart1: UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in fa….
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It's been a busy week for Gatekeeper Art. but I took some time out this morning for some therapy of the artistic kind. 😀. putting some colour on the wee Paisley pattern canvas I started last week. Feeling chilled and enjoying a Happy Sunday. hope you are too. 😀👍. Lil
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You know I'm having way to much fun at work. as these few photos attest to I think . thank you to Joe for taking these photos of me being very serious giving a demo of styrofoam printing. 😂. what am I like. 😀.
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The Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre were continuing with creating hand made wallpaper swatches, finishing off some collagraph printing and preparing to have a go at styrofoam printing more of that next week.who knew printing could be so much fun!
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Thank you Big Art Show . we are totally made up that our mixed media artwork of a red Amaryllis lily has been chosen as the display poster for the 2025 exhibition. we are thrilled. !.@bigartshow @artdeptpaisley
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At todays womens heritage workshop we spent a lot of time online looking at the census returns for the Female House of Refuge in Paisley. we got to these records via a search for "Mrs Stark" the Matron of the Refuge. Original research carried out at the one and only DRC
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It's a beautiful sunny weekend in Scotland. I'm staying in the shade mostly. I've started a small canvas (10 x 8 inches) and just completed doing the outline drawing. It's a traditional Paisley pattern teardrop adapted from a pattern from the 1840's. Happy Sunday. 😀👍. Lil
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RT @OrkneyLibrary: The #BayeuxTapestry coming to the UK is exciting and all but DID YOU KNOW that in our Archive we have our very own tapes….
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What a lovely morning with the Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre. it was a printing frenzy again. Great results with our prints of Paisley Town Hall, sea shell print block wallpaper and some background painting too. well done to all the artists!
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Just sayin'. The Thursday Art Group at the one and only Disability Resource Centre are so happy to say their mixed media painting of a red Amaryllis Lily has made it in to the Big Art Show 2025. ! Well done artists. !.@bigartshow @artdeptpaisley
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The Sun was out this afternoon so we decamped to set up the flip chart and chairs for our Women's Heritage Group outside in the sunshine at the wonderful Disability Resource Centre . We talked about various topics related to the Paisley House of Refuge founded in 1861.
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RT @Creative_Ren: Sorry to hear that the vital Disability Resource Centre in Paisley is under threat. Find out more here: .
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RT @Creative_Ren: Sorry to hear that the vital @DRCentrePaisley in Paisley is under threat. Find out more here:
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Please help us save our center by sharing far and wide, Renfrewshire council has made us aware that our center is at risk of closure. This will have a...
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Here's the last of the x3 canvases in my "In A Renfrewshire Garden" series. This one is an Agapanthus (common name Nile Lily) surrounded by Paisley flower motifs and a bumble bee. It's for sale at the shop at The Art Department, Paisley. Happy Sunday. 😀👍Lil.@artdeptpaisley
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Lovely article + photos in the Paisley Daily Express today showing the event I attended to celebrate the opening of The Art Department. Photo of yours truly with the display of Gatekeeper Art work for sale in the shop. Well done + good luck the Art Department.@artdeptpaisley
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It was a print frenzy at this morning's Thursday Art Group at the one and only DRC. Some of us were making collagraph prints + some of us were making new collograph print plates using Paisley Town Hall or city skyscrapers as inspiration. Well done printmakers. !
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Passing thoughts as I walked to catch my bus. the derelict building called "Lilybank" on the corner of Well Street + Underwood Lane is being demolished. I looked inside the building and couldn't resist taking a couple of photos. the beautiful cornicing.
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***HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY GATEKEEPER ART***.I can't quite believe it. x9 years doing what I love so much whether with my artists beret on or my social historian hat on its been an amazing journey. !.Thanks to all who have helped me along the way. cheers Lil. 😀👍
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Today at the DRC Heritage Group we continued our women's heritage project looking into the House of Refuge in Stow Place. This was run in Victorian times by the Paisley Soc. for the Reclamation of Fallen Women. We are collating our research findings, all fascinating information
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