Author: Beena Devi

6th February 2023 Mika’s first anniversary Terry and Beena     Hello everyone. It has been a year since the passing of Mika. Terry did this work in colour pencil and sent it to me. I have placed this picture on my bookshelf next to Mika’s stuff. I love the way Terry captured the happy…

28th January 2023 Mrs Annie Teo & Beena   Hello everyone, we have hit 200 stories with this artwork by Mrs Annie Teo. It is done with ink and coloured pencil. It is a stylised ant and very whimsical😊😊.   I thank everyone who contributed to making this website unique with art and stories. I…

28th January 2023 Mr Mani Menon   A short write-up on JUST LINES……..Prison Bars.  Decades and decades ago, in the late 1960s, when I was in college, I’d read a novel about which I remember nothing. Not the title, not the author. However, two lines from it are etched in stone in my mind to…

27th January 2023 Beena Hello everyone, it has been a super busy week for me, with feasting on most days😉😆😆. That means weight gain is inevitable😭😭. But most importantly, I had no time to think of a subject to paint😆. So finally drew this with a ruler with all kinds of shapes. I was clueless,…

26th January 2023 Mr Mani Menon     I needed some coloured embroidery threads for an artwork that I was making. I emptied the contents of a plastic cover onto the table. And gasped! The threads had come unravelled from their skeins and had merrily mingled together! Pulling the strands apart was a back-breaking task,…

26th January 2023 Mathew George and Beena   Hello everyone😊 I wish to share my friend’s cross-stitch work today. Mathew is an accomplished plastic surgeon and a chess player who won trophies during his younger days. He won the first for Kerala at the Junior National Championship in 1975. The piece above is so exquisite…

26th January 2023 Mr Mani Menon   Years ago, when I had worked as a Medical Representative in Trivandrum, in Kerala, my work took me to Nagercoil, situated in Tamil Nadu. As I rode my Bullet motorcycle, I would look forward to a stunning sight a mere 10 kilometres from Nagercoil. That was my thrill…

24th January 2023 Mr Mani Menon   We needn’t go to a park or a garden or a park to see flowers. They’re all around us. We get to see them in the unlikeliest of places too!  Here in Chennai where I live, women invariably wear a ‘gajra’ (garland) of fragrant multicoloured flowers in their…

24th January 2023 Ms Kala Pohl   A painting a day is getting to me. I don’t like schedules. So, something really simple today. Have a great weekend.     Painted on the iPad using Procreate.  

24th January 2023 Mr Mani Menon     Trees are such fascinating creations indeed!  It’s not just on account of their soothing verdant presence nor the welcome shade they offer from the hot sun or a sudden downpour. That a tree is an entire ecosystem by itself escapes most of us! It produces flowers and…