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2017. Gobelins, drawings and statues. Lost
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www.mika.czi.cz Libuse Mikova - Mika Westfields
Vineyard Westfields Vineyards,
established 2005, is part of the Mika art studio at 121 Westfields, St.
Albans AL3 4JR. Four kinds of English vines, one white and three red.
Altogether there are 24 vines. 2009 we produced two
bottles of red wine and one bottle of rose wine. 2010 ten gallons of red
wine and one bottle of white wine. 2011 fifteen gallons of
red wine and eight gallons of Apple Wine. No white wine. 2012 eight gallons of
red wine and five gallons of white wine. This was a very bad year for crops
and fruits and vineyards because of rain, lack of sun, cold and vine
diseases. 2013 six gallons of red
wine and no white wine. 4 gallons of cherry wine. This year was bad for sun,
rain and cold, but less illnesses. 2014 nine gallons of red
wine and four gallons of white wine. This year was bad for sun and rain and
vine disease as botrytis, powdery mildew. 2015 five gallons of red
wine and two gallons of white wine. This year, the weather was cold, rain and
wind. Little sun in May, June and July. There were less illnesses than in the
previous year; mildew, Pierre’s Disease and crust. I planted four new red
vines; English Red Wine, Vitis Outdoor Black Grape; Grape Muscat Bleu;
Cabernet Sauvignon. 2016 ten gallons of red
wine and two gallons of white wine. Harvest in November. The year was better
for sun but rainy and cold. I
cultivated the earth with cattle and horse manure, and with pebbles from
Brighton beach. I used spray in February and biological washing powder. There
was less powdery mildew. Pruning in November 2015, and collecting all leaves
on the ground. 2017 Forty-five gallons
of red wine and three and a half gallons of white. Harvest in October. The
year was unstable with the weather. Summer was more warm and sunny, but
spring, autumn and winter were harsh, wind, rain, cold. I cultivated the
earth with cattle and horse manure, with pebbles from Brighton beach, straw
from a farmer’s field, and wooden chips. Pruning was in November 2017, and
collection all leaves on the ground. I used biological powder and soda
bicarbonate powder through the year 2017. There was less powdery
mildew and rust and black spots. 2018 May, I planted 3
Grape Rieslings, white green outdoors, 1 Grape Gewurtzraminer white green outdoor. Nobody knows the
background of all 24 vine plants now in Westfields Vineyard. 2018
There are 24 vine plants in vineyards.4 new plants from Garden Center by St.Albans
, directiion to Hatfield, May 2018: Vitis Vinifera
Climber Riesling Green Outdoor Grapes, three new plants.Vitis
Vinifera Gewurtzaminer Climber Green Outdor Grapes.Prunning in
November2017. 4
seasons to use the horse menure, corn straw, burk,
old wood to cultivate soil. Spray twice per year soda bicarbonate, washing
powder biological, hot water from cooking on the roots.Harvest 25.10.-30.10. 2018
: 25 galons of vine, 5 galons
blended red and white vine, 20 galons rose vine.
Cyprus, Comandaria process to dry the grapes unsuccesful. 5 illnesses of vine plants: 1. Noble rot,
Grey mould, Botrytis Cinerea 2.Rust
leaves.3. Yellow leaves. 4 Black Spot of grapevine.5.Downy
Mildew powdery, Oidium. Less than in 2017. Weather
climate was more sun and light,frost,more
rain. http://www.lmika.com/greek2.pdf Hellenic Centre London Greek
Writers in English Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke; Artist
Libuse Mikova-Mika Hellenic Centre
exposition of The Nature and History in Paintings, Books, Photos and Wall
hanging tapestries, Gobelins from Greece, Cyprus and the Mediterranean by Libuse Mikova-Mika http://www.lmika.com/hellenic.pdf
in Rudolf Steiner House in London is
composed of gobelin and paintings-landscapes from
Bohemia, Greece, Sicily, Istanbul and the sweet English landscape in the
tradition of Constable and Monet. 31 October Monday to 9 December Friday, Opening Monday to Friday 12 Noon-7.30 pm Saturday:10am-6pm Contacts for students, audience and buyers: Tel:01727864257;
e-mail: lmika@live.co.uk Bookshop:02077247699 35 Park Road, London NW16XT,
buses:2,3,18,27,30,74,82,139,113,159,274:Baker Street underground station. Thank you to the great Art Historian Mr.
Trevor Dance, who offered me this exhibition in the Rudolf Steiner House. Past
Lectures Wednesday 12 March 2014,
7.30-8.30pm Wednesday 6 November 2013, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the Rudolph Steiner House, 35 Park
Road London NW1 6XT, telephone of Libuse is 01727
864257. Libuse will look at the collection of
Flemish tapestries in the Gallery of Tapestries in the Vatican Museum. The
weavers were Flemish and Italian. These tapestries tell us about the life of
Jesus and the Virgin Mary, the history of Rome and Roman emperors. £9 Magic of
Tapestry – VIII Wednesday 6 March 2013, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the Rudolph Steiner House. 35 Park
Road London NW1 6XT, telephone of Libuse is 01727
864257. Libuse will look at the collection of
tapestries in the Louvre, Paris. Collected from different parts and epochs of
Christian Europe, these tapestries tell us about religion, war, nature and
morality. £7 Magic of
Tapestry – VII Wednesday 17 October 2012, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the Rudolph Steiner House. 35 Park
Road London NW1 6XT, telephone of Libuse is 01727
864257. The talk will be about the visit to the Ramses Wissa
Wassef Art Centre in Harrania Village in Sakkara,
Gisa. The beauty of Egyptian landscape in tapestries produced by the
children, aged 8 to 20, of Harrania Village. The
late Mr. Ramses Wissa Wassef remains an important
architect. £7 May 2012 Exhibition of tapestry Lecture Magic of
Tapestry – VI Wednesday 23 May 2012, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the Rudolph Steiner House. The talk
was about the 14th century “The Tapestry of Angers” depicting St.
John’s vision of the Apocalypse. £7 Magic of
Tapestry – V Wednesday 29 February 2012, 7.30 – 8.30pm
at the Rudolph Steiner House. The talk was about the 15th century
tapestry “The Lady and the Unicorn” and their eternal message of esoteric
beauty. £7 November 2011 Exhibition of tapestry. Lecture Magic of
Tapestry - IV Thursday 10
November 2011, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the
Rudolph Steiner House.35Park Road London NW1 6XT, telephone of Libuse is 01727 864257. The talk was about her tapestry
work complementing her exhibition in the foyer of the house(7.11.-2.12.2011) All her artistic work in tapestry comes
from the impulse of Christianity epoch spirit and her spiritual imagination
of life and death and nature. She talked about her art therapy, which uses
the methods of Rudolf Steiner in the Sue Ryder home in Ely. £7 Magic of
Tapestry - III Friday 30 September 2011, 7.30 – 8.30pm at the
Rudolph Steiner House. The magic of tapestry the art of the French tapestry
revival led by great innovator craftsman Jean Lurcat is the subject of this
enchanting talk by Libuse Mikova-Mika
herself a practitioner of art of tapestry. The beauty of the art of hand will
be shown. All welcome. No prior knowledge required. £7 Magic of
Tapestry - II Rudolph Steiner House. Sunday 22 May
2011. This lecture informs on the beauty of the art of hands in the epoch of
baroque, rococo until the 20th century with its avant-garde style. All welcome £7 Magic of
Tapestry - I Friday 11 February 2011, 7.30 – 8.30pm at
the Rudolph Steiner House. Discussing the magic of tapestry in the
therapeutic method of Rudolph Steiner. £7. Books Westfields
Press "Tom Cat Dali on the Road" by Libuse Mikova-Mika, a 36 page book of illustrations. Published
2009. £20. Also on the www. ISBN 978-0
906340-20-2 Tom Cat Dali is a real cat figure who
lived with me in my panel flat in Prague in 2003. One day, tragically, I lost
him. I dedicate this book to him. "Mystery
of Prague". 34 pictures.
Published 2009. £15 ISBN
978-0-906340-21-9 The pictures are about the beauty of
historical sights in Prague. It is dedicated to all
people who like the mystery of Prague and surrealistic pictures. “Tapestries by Libuse
Mikova-Mika”. 20 pictures of tapestries Published 2010.
£4 ISBN 978-0-906340-22-6 “Mystery of Us”. 47 pictures. Published 2011. £15 ISBN
978-0-906340-23-3 The pictures are about the Exodus of men, women and
children. Bought by Bookshop of Rudolph Steiner House. “Journey to Egypt”. 50 pictures. Published 2011. £20 ISBN
978-0-906340-24-0 The drawings are about places during my travels in
2004-2011. O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing
will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will
not believe, nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will
tell of thy piety – Apuleius 125-180 AD “Chanson de la France”. 70 pictures,
published 2012. £20 ISBN
978-0-906340-25-7 Picture of: The Gobelin Tapestry. The
Autumn Leaves of Leonardo da Vinci and Francois I, the French King These
drawings and paintings of the book “Chanson de la France” were created
between 1977 and 2012 in various regions of France. My
personal feeling for all the places in France where I painted is deep,
sensual and happy, but it has not been always in harmony with the real life
and history of the country of the cockerel.
Sometimes
I feel that I was born in the silver waves of the Mediterranean by the
Marseille. If
I think of my home, I think of the Ardèche, with
its mountains in the strong wind of the mistral. Thank
you, France. Libuse Mikova-Mika. I
never knew how to do my duty I
never knew how to learn a lesson But
give me a horse I’ll
lead it to water Give
me a magnum too I’ll
drink it with friends Give
me .... - Jacques Prévert. “Around the Roads in Italy and Spain”. 100 pictures,
published 2012. £25 ISBN
978-0-906340-26-4 These
drawings, paintings and photos with gobelin
“Carmen” were created between 1984 and 2013 in various places in Italy and Spain. The
Mediterranean Sea is the most influential and beautiful nature in the art
works of the book. The paintings and photos were born in nature and some of
them were finally finished in the studio. My personal and artistic feelings
during the Italian travels were deep, sensual and happy; in Venice, Padua,
Assisi, Florence, Castel del Piano, Cerveteri and the Amalfi coast. Rome was
very important for my discovery of the ancient history of Apennines peninsula
and its life. The
journey in Spain was captured with dance and Flamengo music, and horrible
killing of bulls in a corrida, which I saw at a television in a pub near
Madrid. If
I think of Spain, I think of the unique places, full of history and hope and
lost dreams of the freedom and happiness of nature.
Libuse Mikova-Mika
Dante degli Alighieri, 1265–1321). “Sketches of a Traveller around the
British Isles”. 106 pictures, published 2014. £35 ISBN 978-0-906340-27-1 Picture: London Boulevard These
drawings, paintings and photos and the Gobelin “Ivor Catt and Trinity
Goliath” were created between 2004 and 2014 in various places in the British
Isles. The
British islands have the heritage of a great powerful country, which
historically influenced the life of Europe and many countries. In the epoch
of the 21st century there is historical doubt about its cultural
life, democracy and freedom and the truth of its political system, but no
doubt about the beauty of the landscape, trees and the kingdom of animals and
plants. November 2014
Libuse Mikova-Mika “I have added some ploughmen to the
landscape from the park pales, which is a great help, but I must try and warm
the picture a little more if I can . But it will be
difficult as it’s now all of a piece; it is bleak.” - John Constable, England’s greatest painter.(1776-1837)
“From Constantinople to Peloponnese”. 32 pictures,
published 2015. £20 ISBN
978-0-906340-28-8 Picture: Greek dance "Zorba" in the port
of Athens These
drawings, paintings and photos were created between 2009 and 2014 in various
places in Constantinople and the Peloponnese. The pictures of the Marmara
sea, the prayers in the Blue Mosque, Haghia Sophia,
532-537, the basilica, later becoming mosque, by the architects Isidor of
Miletus and Arthemus of Thalles
in the times of Justinian I, the Christian emperor. The traditional Greek
dance in Athens under the Pantheon; the beautiful vineyards and nature of Kryonere; Kioto with palm
trees; the history of Mycenae, now in
ruins; the ancient Greek theatre Epidaurus, mastered by the fourth century
B.C. Greek architect and sculpturer Polykleitos the Younger; the ancient
Roman site Nemeas. Corinth with the Hera temple
captured my artistic sense; exoticism and the world of understanding who we
are. Constantinople, the holy city of Byzantium and the Ottoman empire, the
place where, during the 2nd part of the 19th century,
the French marine officer Pierre Loti fell in love with its exoticism, and
wrote about Constantinople and his love of the unnamed Turkish lady with
finest exotic charm and coloured form. Gentile Bellini from Venice spent his
diplomatic and artistic life in the court of Sultan Mahomet
II. Constantinople of the 16th
century Ottoman architect Sinan shaped the exotic charm of the port above the
Sea of Marmara. The vibrant life nowadays returns my mind to the past of my
travels there. November 2015, Libuse
Mikova-Mika
You
may forget but
I am before I am after Let
me tell you
This someone in the
soul for all souls
Some future time all the
way I am the one Will think of us
helping hand ready for those
gone wild astray
Sappho, Greek lady poet , Yunus
Emre, Turkish poet 6th
Century BC 1240-1321 “South Africa: country between two oceans”. 40 pictures,
published 2016. £20 ISBN
978-0-906340-29-5 Picture: South African penguin under the rainbow These drawings and paintings with
photos of beautiful nature in South Africa were created in February 2007. Exoticism of spirit, shapes,
colours, light, dark and bushmen, people from the past and the present,
create original dimensions in my artistic work. In Cape Town, Mossel bay, Cape of
Good hope, where Bartolomeo Diaz, a Portuguese aristocrat, son of a great
marine nation, as the first European sailor with his crew, reached the South
African earth. The voyage through the exotic
splendour of Table Mountains, Kirtenbosch botanical
garden, the Garden rout with its ancient forest, Montagu Springs, Robertson
town and Gospel train with its Eden garden. The garden of prayer of the owner
priest Lionel Kuiper with his wife Vivian and their sons. South African days and nights with
its celestial blue sky. The ostrich farm, the baboon family,
turtles, the penguin colony on the shore, the African elephants’ sanctuary,
the snake, lizard, oriental insect. The natural phenomenon of the
Atlantic and Indian oceans joining in the Cape of Good Hope. The blood and human misery of the
bushmen and the nations in South Africa with the Long walk to freedom in
sunrise and sunset, can be seen in my paintings with sharp black contours. Songs of the Sailors: For god’s sake,
sailor, tell me what song you are singing -
Balad of Count Arnaldos,
1492 November 2016, Libuse Mikova-Mika Songs of the Sailors: For god’s sake,
sailor, tell me what song you are singing -
Balad of Count Arnaldos,
1492 November 2016, Libuse Mikova-Mika “Cyprus: The island of Aphrodite” 40 pictures, published 2017. £20 ISBN
978-0-906340-30-1 Island“South
Africa: country between two oceans”. 40 pictures, published 2017. £20 ISBN 978-0-906340-29-5 Drawings and paintings with photos
of beautiful nature in Cyprus, The beautiful Mediterranean island of
Aphrodite. Nature and history are created in ancient Cypriot poetry, the
great help of my beloved grey European cat at my side, whom I left in
Limassol. Euclos 7th or 8th BC, ancient
Cypriot poetry As the Oracle said of this island, a
great, celebrated singer will be born in Sea-Girt Cyprus, whom the misto, the
best of the best will bear, her offspring born in a lone, barren field, far
from the fertile land of Salamis, will leave Cyprus behind and over the waves
to great Greece will go. Hellenic centre London, 2017 November
2017, Libuse Mikova-Mika Exhibition of books The exhibition of 5 books
in the church of St.Tomas and Augustian
monastery, Prague 1, Mala Strana, Josefska 8, Czech Republik From 30.09.2012 till 26.5.2014
Tom Dali on the road, 2008 Mystery of Prague, 2009 Mystery of Us, 2011 Journey to Egypt, 2012 Tapestry by Libuse Mikova-Mika, 2010 Many thanks to Pater Juan Provecho Order books from icatt@gmail.com or libuse.mikova@seznam.cz . Tel. +44 (0)1727 864257 St. Albans Public Library 2006 “Tapestries by Libuse Mikova-Mika”"Lady Tel.020
77661100 Ivor Catt bought the tapestry
“David and Goliath” made from 2006 to 2010 St.
Albans Roman Verulamium Museum bought Mika prints in 2009 Pen
drawing of the King Harry Pub. Mika
exhibition, Nov 2005 ; April
2007
; May
2007
, August
2008 Copy
of original tapestry Tender
of the World for
sale
£8,000 Horse
on the Charles Bridge, Prague Three
trees in Mirabel, Ardeche |
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