2020 Advent Calendar [15] – Jennifer Kellett

December 15, 2020

Jennifer Kellett is another British artist beautifully mixing nature and abstract, patterns and colors. Instagram here, website here. If you’re looking for Greeting Cards (you find them here), you might want to take a look at the Snow Dog, one of my favorite, the Mouse Dream or the Stately Bear. When I’m writing, both the Post Box and the Robin cards are sold out, but maybe they’ll come back by the time I publish this.

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.

books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Living Space and Other Stories

By the life of me, I will never understand how these are collected.The book contains some delightful short stories plus a slightly longer one (Profession), mostly all of them revolving around the rise of Multivac, the first supercomputer built by humanity which in turn takes

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Summertime

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Architect

Same poet, different book. Rilke, the Bohemian poet and playwright, already made an appearance in the original list, so I’m well aware that bringing him back on day two of a sequel about not repeating myself is a strange way to start. But the Duino

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books and literature

The Thursday Murder Club

I wanted to read this series after seeing the delightful movie on Netflix, which would have been worth it if only for the stellar cast. After I started, I couldn’t possibly stop. I think I read the whole thing in a month. Here’s what I

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