We are specks of dust on a revolving rock. This rock which is our home in the universe shuddered last Friday and the lives of millions will never be the same. Writing my ‘normal’ blog post did not feel appropriate tonight because my words feel trivial and inadequate in light of the pictures and news […] Read more...
The greatest thing you will ever learn…
…is how to love and be loved in return. (still learning) Read more...
Is it art and are you an artist? A new way of looking at things…
I have followed the ‘ what is is art?’ debates for several years, often with bemusement from a non fine-art trained person such as myself. Cerulean Rendevous by Carole Choucair Oueijan (mosaic) My gut response is to reject the authoritarian, ‘closed-shop’ spirit that would bring about categorisations such as ‘this is and isn’t art / […] 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...
Changing the world…
My sweet firstborn is 5 years old today! I still look at her and am full of awe at how this little human life IS. Joyat how she is unfolding into her years. Everyone says (and we know), that it goes fast, so fast. Over the last few years, I have often had this phrase […] Read more...
Rhythm setting
My resolution to live more rhythmically is 10 days old. I have been spending some wonderfully rich moments writing down all that has been in my head and heart on the subject – several years worth of gestation – and externalising it onto paper and hard drive (don’t you think that as soon as you […] Read more...
My year of living rhythmically…
It’s that time of year again. Resolutions, intentions. Here’s mine..rhythm (gosh my first challenge is to spell it right!) We began the rhythm by sitting round a wreath of white candles (ushering in the new…) and each of declaring a wish for the year (resolution is just too hard a word for a 3 and […] Read more...
Crossing the threshold…
Friends, I have stepped over the threshold into the big four-oh! Yesterday we celebrated and tonight I reflect on what makes a great birthday. Here’s my ingredients : – being given 40 kisses each by my children and husband when I woke! – smoked salmon and scrambled egg breakfast -gorgeous gifts including a new Nikon […] Read more...
Online mosaic exhibition…just for you!
Photo’s can never do mosaics justice…its all about texture, touch and reflectivity and its hard to capture these elements in pictures. Nonetheless, here’s a snapshot (pardon the pun!) into my first solo exhibition which ran for two weeks and finished on December 11th. My ‘real’ visitors book is full of wonderful comments, a testament to […] Read more...
Your footprints in my soul…
A dear friend of mine is pregnant with her first baby and sent me her first scan pic the other day. Got me indulgently reminiscing, as one does, and flexing my other artistic muscle, the writing one, which is deep within me and goes back a long way. She will be five soon, I can’t […] Read more...