…from a blog friend, Zeynep, from Istanbul but now living in Vitenam (so adventurous!). I answer her questions and then I get to pose my own to other blog friends. Nice way to know each other in the cyber-world don’t you think? Here’s Zeynap’s questions to me… What’s your big dream? To build a zero-carbon [...] Read more...
Follow your path…
Creative souls… we are on a journey. To create art and beauty. To become ourselves. To help bring about a better world. It is a joy and a struggle because it is an ‘inside job’ to quote the lovely Marisa from Creative Thursday. One of the issues that we all have to grapple with (in [...] Read more...
How to be an entrepreneur
This poster has followed me around all my workplaces for the last 10 years and is now on the door of my studio. I bought it in Haight Ashbury, the most wonderfully hippy district of San Francisco, from the Red Victorian Peace Centre where they produce a range of inspirational arts posters (you can order [...] Read more...
What is our work about?
I am trying to understand why making is so transformative. I am sitting in my studio, cutting and laying tiles, placing them, moving them a millimetre this way and that until my eye is satisfied. I am making colour choices and pondering the reflective qualities of material. Materials given to me by the Earth and [...] Read more...
Experimenting with art
I want to introduce you to my first sponsor and new friend, Amelia. One of the things that I love about blogging is meeting new people and making connections that would otherwise not happen. It feels especially lovely to have met Amelia through the blogosphere as she is not only a fellow artist and mum, [...] Read more...
