When things are flowing, you feel like you are dancing. Ideas flow from one thought to the next. Suddenly you are brim full, your body performing a dance of hands…
Fail better
Today I thought about failure and about the process you go through as you creatively work through your ideas.
Words, words, words
When I was in primary school, my grade four teacher called me windbag because I talked so much.
Warp and Weft
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
Le Gîte
Its Monday morning and the weekly market has set up radiating out from the centre of town near the church, filling the streets
Hunting and Collecting
The first part of any new project is reconnaissance ~ that's a French word meaning preliminary surveying or research from the verb reconnaître,
Finally, France!
After finally arriving in France via La Rochelle we did a quick trip to Brittany to conclude our tour of neolithic sites in the UK and Brittany, France.
Transmitters
I have always wanted to go to Newgrange. Perhaps more so than Stonehenge. It is the one of the oldest solstice aligned temples in the world…
Stones and Circles
Throughout our UK travels, we have visited many neolithic sites, from the Standing Stones of Stenness, Ring of Brognar and Skara Brae on the Isle of Orkney
What can you do?
What can one sole person do in the larger scheme of things? I wonder...
Prayer is better than sleep
Whenever I travel through countries which have mosques, I always stop for a moment when I hear the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer.
Walls, Borders (and their crossing)
alls....It seems like everyone these days either has one or wants to build one.
Of Angels
I've been thinking about angels. The ones in fluffy cumulous clouds, just out of sight.
Location, location
Cornwall will forever be Jamaica Inn and Rebecca, The Shell Seekers and more lately, Doc Martin.
History is a place
History is a place. Its a town, a building, a community, a people. As history is also famously written by the victors,
The idea of it
Sometimes it is the idea of something which propels us into action. If we are lucky, the reality meets or exceeds expectations.
Small offerings
We are bereft of rituals. The ancient peoples who were of the land, knew the need for ceremony, for thanks and gratitude to the earth,
Sometimes you win....
I am getting ready for a big three month art excursion to new and exciting places. This photo is of La Filature du Pont de Fer…
Cyclonic Paper
Its been a year since ex-tropical Cyclone Debbie swept through northern New South Wales and flooded my art studio.
Art & Travel
Welcome to 2018. I like to start each year off with a new art project. This year I have returned to my default art practice of creating a small collage a day