Postcard collage 2018, Thessaloniki
I have been lucky to research and create art about a specific place on artist residencies. But it wasn’t always like that. In many cases it has taken years before my art about place could be be expressed as a placemaking ‘retrospective’.
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Sea Ice - still a work in progress.Collage 23 cm w x 16cm h
Quite often my best art works are created really quickly. Things “just click” and the work literally makes itself. Other pieces I will labour over but these are not as successful as they have lost that initial “spark”. Knowing when to stop is key.
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6 days of daily artworks - the last one depicts the flowers outside my studio window
What happens when you get out of your daily rhythm? You have to get back into flow. There are seven positive small actions I took to get back into the rhythm of creating again in my studio after five months away.
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My new travelling paint set
We are our own worst critics. We have so many ideas around failure that it is easy to get discouraged. Yet all is not lost. When you adopt a “never give up” attitude your lost days can turn into blessings.
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View from the backyard, Hertford, England.
Holed up in a friend’s spare bedroom while recovering from Covid, I invited the world to come to me. Outside the sun is shining on an English summer and the back-garden where I take my meals to get some fresh air, yet I am drawn inside back to my bed and the world of stories as the hours and days slip by.
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Sassuma Arnaa, the Mother of the Sea. A sculpture at the old colonial harbour in Nuuk, capital of Greenland.
We can look to myths to help solve today’s problems. The Greenlandic figure of Sassuma Arnaa, the Mother of the Sea enshrines good practice for sustainable living. The 2022 UN Ocean Conference is endeavouring to do the same. On the agenda is a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights. We have less than thirty years to get this right.
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Inside the constructed ice cave at Perlan Museum, Reykjavik
I returned from Greenland looking for ice in Iceland. I found it in the Perlan Museum in Reykjavik. Scientists and glaciologists in Iceland confidently predict that all of Iceland glaciers will disappear within the next 100 - 200 years. What will happen to Greenland?
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On the front line of a receding glacier - Sermeq Kujalleq, the icefjord glacier at Ilulissat, Greenland.
The ice is leaving and fast. Getting up close and personal with a 250,000 year old glacier is an awe inspiring experience. Saying goodbye to a fast receding icesheet leaves me in deep grief about the future of Greenland and the world.
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Icebergs seen on route to Ilulissat, Greenland
Your body knows when it needs rest. Ignore it at your peril. So I travelled while I slept and woke up to icebergs for breakfast. An inspirational reset in Greenland.
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Trying something new can extend your world view. From creating a ceramic stone and holding it in my hand, to linking this with US President John F Kennedy’s often quoted line “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
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