Life’s Journey

With our country, and the world, going into lock down, and with the desperate pleas for people to STAY AT HOME…. I’ve been in an ethical dilemma for the past few days, on what my part [...]

Some time ago, I was interviewed by Michelle Ewan, who was working on an initiative to interview 365 women, over 365 consecutive days, and to add to the challenge, each story written, needed to [...]

2019 round up. I think it’s always good to sit down and take a few minutes to reflect on the past year, (in fact decade) and decide what has worked and what hasn’t. It enables me to recognise how [...]

I got the news that I’d won The Binnie Birstein Scholarship to The States just before Christmas.  (You might have heard me screaming!) This means I will be attending The 14th International [...]

Here is a round up of my journey into becoming an artist…  From a girl who was repeatedly told by society that “art was just a hobby” and consequently embarking on a life of [...]

Hello there…! I just wanted to take a moment and say how blown away I was by the responses to my recent newsletter and blog. I’m not the sort to cry very much, I’m more of a stiff upper lip [...]

I’ve debated sharing this, as it’s taken a lot of internal processing to get to this point.  I’ve touched on this story before, but decided I would share it in full today, because the [...]

What I’m sharing today, has been shared before, but it’s so important, I think it’s worth sharing again…. How many of us were told we couldn’t ‘do’ art… YEP… HANDS UP… Perhaps you painted a [...]

Well… a week or two into the New Year, the dust is settling after all of the festivities, and I’m beginning to get that creative itch again.  I felt it would be good to do a little round [...]

In April I spent a week portrait painting with Lora Murphy, it was amazing, you can read about that here… but one morning I skipped class… By day six my head was in melt down.  The [...]