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the year 2000, lost in the year 2017. Gobelins,
drawings and statues. Lost English version of 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.
Ocean is the
wall hanging tapestry, Gobelin, size 1,55m x
2,05m, created from 2019 till 30.03.2020,
altogether
1 year of artwork. The Gobelin is classical technology, the photographs as the sketches to cartoon, and realized as diploma master weaving, (Libuse Mikova), with wool, cotton, silk and artificial colours and 25% artificial materials. The cartoon was made with photos of waves in Cassis in France and the photo of Cape Horn, from the book Thalassa (French institute London) by Georges Pernoud, French. Ocean, the
Gobelin is for the audience, who do not know
whether to live in the ocean or on the land, and
it helps them to join it with the life of the
Gobelin Ocean. The price of
Ocean, hand master weaving Gobelin is £42,000
for 1 year of artwork.
Libuse Mikova Author, Academic
painter, Academy of art, architecture, design,
Prague
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,
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