Mental Health Awareness Week
I have deliberated long and hard about writing about my own personal and extended relationship with mental health, and to be honest, I...
Inky fingers and sun-blushed noses at West Dean
Over the bank holiday Easter weekend, I and a wonderfully committed team of assistants, have been helping children print their own jigsaw...
Making
Last week I had the fortune to be able to use a little of the wonderful workshop space at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation to...
The wonder of the press
A week or so ago I went to teach the pupils of Dunannie school, in Hampshire. It was an intense and slightly crazy teaching session...
Viewing Art in a Gallery
I'm in the process of putting together an application for Arts Council England and Wales funding, my second in recent years. Amazingly,...
The Muse
Andrew said to me the other day, (not a direct quote I hasten to add), 'so, I am basically your muse?' This got me thinking. And then I...
Quite Ready for Another Adventure
In 2017 I gave up my studio at Making Space, an arts community centre in Leigh Park, Havant. It was a very nice studio. Four white...
Why?
For the last few years of my practice as an artist and working in Arts Education, I have grappled with the commercialism and ownership of...










