Artist’s notes

What a glorious few days! Have been enjoying being outdoors – Sunday breakfast in the garden; ‘business’ lunch in the garden’ ‘business’ meeting at the cafe on the sea front where the wild flowers planted as part of DAD’s “How does your garden grow?” project for last year’s Love Architecture festival are really thriving. They have grown from tiny plugs with hardly a hope in hell to create fantastic areas of colour in the shingle beds. All thanks to some dedicated volunteers who nurtured them in the first couple of weeks, when there was no rain in sight. It is such a powerful reminder of how integral nurturing and caring is to culture and the arts.