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When creative joy feels elusive, how do you discover it again? It's a recurring challenge to keep your practice alive, vibrant and engaging. Sometimes it feels like all is lost forever, yet I’ve discovered that creativity needs activation, not through thinking but in the doing. When you let your hands lead you, your heart and mind get activated and eventually join together in joyful creating.
I am appreciating the strong titanium plates that now live within me. Playing with stencils of their abstracted shapes makes visible an inner landscape to explore as I emerge from creative hibernation.
Can artists save the world? Papermakers are giving it a try! Presenting at the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) congress in Dresden were papermakers from around the world, sharing ideas, goodwill and challenging us to find creative ways to be sustainable.
I often think that papermakers are part of one big family and that together we constitute the United Nations of Paper. Here at the Paper Art Event I contemplate climate change and that perhaps paper can contribute to raising awareness of this climate crisis that affects us all as global citizens.
The inspiration for my upcoming exhibition Deluge opening in March 2019, Murwillumbah NSW.
The work we do. I’ve been thinking of that today as I wove strips of photocopied posters advertising the silk industry which dominated the Cévennes up until fifty or so years ago.
Today was a day for tidying up in the studio. Tomorrow I will be joined by a choreographer from Portugal who I hope will bring another way of thinking through movement to this artist space.
How to actually start a new project from scratch? When I walked into the studio space this morning, I was again struck by the idea of making a space for me
