Dear Diary, How are you? I feel I should have visited you before now, but I haven’t. I’ve been too busy being busy. Three things I should have told you: 1)I am still setting up my business. But rather than […]
Dear Diary, Have you seen the film Brazil? Can’t say I’m loving it, but we’ve been watching it over two days. Anyway, in between showings, I phoned Company House with some questions about setting myself up as a company, and […]
Wey hey! Back after an absence. Shall I start my posts with that lovely phrase, ‘Dear Diary…’, thereby keeping at bay the terrible affliction of Blogger’s Block (why?…for whom? …the futility of the artistic life…oh, woe is me!). We have […]
I write about this in my ‘art’ blog because art is not about art if it is not about life. I heard today, unexpectedly, of the death of my secondary school English teacher. It was not just his death that […]
Been working hard, but nothing to show for it. So I’ll show you some piccies from Saturday, the ReOrsa happening that overtook Bracknell. The photos are of my piece – a woven staircase, but check out the whole thing on […]
I met with Anne Latto, my old Crow this morning. Do you mind being called my old Crow, Anne? She is very inspirational. We sat in her warm conservatory, looking out at the wondrous garden where vibrant plants and scented […]
Gordon, what do you mean by ‘unnecessary programmes’? Who was funding them if they weren’t necessary? And you don’t mean things like the arts, do you, or programmes that improve quality of life?
Feedback from my Arts Council application…the very person who gave me untold advice and support PRIOR to my submission, to strengthen it, was the sole judge and jury once my application was submitted. She took three months then to say […]
But thank the universe for wonderful women. I have been working with Anna Sexton, my genius guru (www.opentoarts.com) who has given me inspiration and belief to progress where failure has seemed the order of the day. We have monthly telephone […]
Fresh starts…I’m working on a new Crow! A few weeks ago I got my Arts Council England short and skinny envelope, not the big fat number I had been waiting for. For one fraction of a second it was a […]