..adding beauty to function. While the functional aspect of the object remains, the representational side of ti is considered as an art form in itself.

So I decided to paint a Hobbit’s pipe which had been carved with an ivy leaf pattern around the bowl.

Now to me, and probably no one else, I immediately spotted an arrow pointing off into the next field. This triggered a few things in my mind, but mainly it started me thinking about who may have carved an arrow in the stone and why. Now, a few hours later the nucleus of a short story is bubbling away somewhere in that grey matter I tend to pass off as a brain