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Vincent Shaw

Artist, writer and storyteller. Forty years of stories and paint. I write about books, art, craft and imagination. Sussex, UK. A new essay every week. Subscribe and never miss one.

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The Grandfather and Father of Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien and William Morris

When I was six, I found my very first castle. It stood in Peter Pan’s Playground in the Sussex seaside town of Worthing, four small white towers of wood and painted plaster, and one early June morning I sl...

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Clay and Community

This essay is one of the first things I wrote for Care & Craft, earlier this year, when barely two dozen of you had subscribed. Most of you subscribed long after I wrote this essay, and I suspect very few of you have read it, and I’ve been...

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Why Adults Queue for Butterbeer

Why Adults Queue for Butterbeer.
On imagination, reading and the magic we are in danger of losing.

There is a photograph of Peter Pan’s Playground in Worthing that I found some years ago, a faded colour postcard from the early 1970s. In...

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Faeries and the Face in the Tree

My first edition copy of Fairies, bought in 1978

Earlier this year I touched upon a book I bought during my first year at art college in 1979. It was a first edition of Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, and you can read more about that...

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A voice as thick as honey. The 100 year anniversay of Winnie-the-Pooh

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    Artist, writer and storyteller. Forty years of stories and paint, and a great-great-grandfather who made stained glass for William Morris. Weekly essays on books, art, craft and imagination. Sussex, UK. Plus free heritage printables at horseguard.uk

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