One of the things I’ve noticed after many years supporting artists is that for many people the accepted career paths are neither appropriate or accessible. If we walk outside the mainstream we have to make to make our own way. […]
Oh dear. I still haven’t managed to include all the bits I have wanted to in my latest series of collages and painting. I have been easily distracted lately. This includes illness, my work in a theatre and the stress […]
There are various things that happen when I create my art, a place where my brain goes to, a kind of daydream. These imperfect patterns I have been creating which not only act as a backdrop to the collages I […]
Then and now each slice of life slashes experience like a knife Streaming past, fast, elusive, ephemeral, unable to grasp Data, images, history, time, moulded experience, subjective – mine Yet patterns emerge, like a haunting musical refrain, gnawing at the […]
Outside the days are short, dark and the earth is wet. Large Oak leaves are falling around my studio, and providing an incubation for rebirth. I am finishing a project I started on my Forest School practitioner course, four years […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a brief blog about meeting another artist by chance and how we connected through our Instagram accounts. This week, I’ve made another connection…. It was while searching the Art Athena website (http://www.art-athina.gr/parallel-programme-2015/platforms-project-art-athina-2015/ ) for […]
A few weeks ago a friend sent me a booklet, an illustrated version of The princess and the pea, which much delighted me, partly because, as she knew, it brought childhood memories, partly because my body/skin can be fired up […]
