Elevating an artwork on an easel for a photoshoot. “The 44” and me .
How do you price your artwork, especially when you are starting out? Valuing yourself for where you are on your journey means embracing all your perceived ‘failures’ and keeping on going. I know now that the more I exhibit, the more I value what I do and why I do it.
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Untitled - Work in progress 2022
I have many artworks which are in a state of pause. Projects that lie dormant in my “waiting” drawers, unresolved, needing some special spark to activate them. Waiting for me to ask the right questions to reveal a deeper narrative.
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Glastonbury. 2018. From the postcard series 91 Days. Featured in Collage Your Life book, 2022.
Creating collages, every day for more than years has given me a creative practice, a visual diary and ways to work through some of my ideas on a small scale. Now some of these collages are featured in a new book Collage Your Life by USA artist /author Melanie Mowinski.
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Other People’s Letters. Paper collage 10 x 10cm 2022
I am attracted to text as art. Graffiti, asemic writing, Cyrillic script, Asian calligraphy and Pitmans shorthand. A hidden language that whispers of poetry and love. Success in art takes time and a whole lot of practice. It is the only thing that stands between you and your success.
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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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