The Wrinkle and the Crone: Redefining Beauty in Our Society
Imagine a canvas: initially smooth, but over time, it gets filled with intricate patterns, lines, and textures. These lines tell stories,...
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- Aug 6
- 2 min
Welcome To My New Website!
Hello, lovely to meet you here! It's been a while since my last post, but rest assured, I haven't stopped creating art. I find it deeply...
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
The Original Life Design Cards Kickstarter 2022
My website and blog posting may have been quiet this past year, but I have been busy creating in the background. After a difficult few...
- Mar 20, 2020
- 4 min
Why a new Life Design card deck?
So what’s going on? I’m on the brink of launching a re-work of the Life Design cards. I didn’t think this would happen as I was feeling...
- Jul 3, 2019
- 4 min
The Full Heat Of The Sun…
Photograph of an Oil on Tarpaulin by Hughie O’Donoghue RA from Summer Exhibition 2019. I never thought I would get this post written....
- May 16, 2018
- 5 min
Fashioned from Nature…
A thought provoking exhibition at the V&A: Fashioned from Nature (FFN). I felt it important to take the time to visit. It truly opened my...
- Mar 21, 2018
- 1 min
The Textured Tarot important update #2…
This is a brief update to announce when The Textured Tarot is to be available for pre-order. It’s turning out to be quite an eventful...
- Mar 9, 2018
- 3 min
Ruth Blackford…
I have many reasons for choosing Kingston Upon Thames for my new home. But, I did not realise that, nestled within this city, is a mecca...
- Sep 20, 2017
- 2 min
A life more ordinary please…
June 2017 Sitting by the window sipping hot tea, I ponder and think about things. As the steam dampens my face, I notice the delicious...
- Sep 6, 2017
- 4 min
Mullein and me …
It was around 2009 when I had my first ‘intentional’ spiritual experience with a plant. I am not professing to be an expert spirit guide...
- Aug 22, 2017
- 1 min
Patience has a gift of Slow time…
I can honestly say that I have been wishing away time this year! Awful, I know! I have caught myself in the act of pining for a swift...
- Aug 9, 2017
- 3 min
About time to have some soul medicine!
I am writing this blog post straight out of the gate! After all, it’s been a while and I thought it was about time I wrote something! It...
- Apr 27, 2017
- 3 min
The mirror that shines…
‘You will never set the world on fire girl! Look at you hiding in the shadows!’ (comment when I was 8 or 9 years old). It’s funny how...
- Feb 26, 2017
- 4 min
Stepping into Spring…
community It’s been 5 months since I last wrote a blog post. I was ‘not okay’… Allowing oneself to step aside from the distraction of...
- Sep 28, 2016
- 1 min
Ballet shoes off: I am not okay …
It happened to me this week: the moment I learned to allow myself to ‘not be okay‘. It has taken a momentous amount of courage, against...
- Sep 19, 2016
- 2 min
Ugly-beautiful
I Raku glazed you at The Goodlife Festival Experience 2016: you, the ugly bowl, with the rusty copper glow. You awkward-looking,...
- Sep 14, 2016
- 1 min
If my lungs are made of trees…
If my lungs are made of trees… Highgate and Queens Wood, a clavicular breath to raise my shoulders high: a breath to remember who I am; a...
- Sep 11, 2016
- 2 min
As leaves kiss my cheeks…
“I am so very, very sorry…very sorry,” the Sonographer repeated as her eyes looked down to the floor. I lay in shock. Like acid, the news...
- Apr 3, 2016
- 4 min
Where self-discovery limits options…
This blog post is about a personal journey with my art and my business. It breaks all the formulaic blogging rules of making it about my...
- Feb 2, 2016
- 4 min
The gifts from a single portrait
The portrait above is Odette Marie Céline Hallowes (née Brailly) by Pietro Annigoni 1961 (ink and tempera on thick paper prepared with...
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