With a new year firmly underway I am at last back at work after a very long absence. Beginning in November I was laid low with a nasty cold virus, and despite a few days here and there where I thought I was finally feeling a bit better I kept on lapsing into this awful state of being unwell
Read MoreLast Saturday I hosted my first Art Workshop in the cosy village hall in Hoylandswaine, Yorkshire. I thought I'd pop in and write about how it went and what I learnt.
Read MoreI'm sitting in the coffee shop, and through the window I can see a blue sky streaked with long, grey clouds, it feels calm and yet although I committed to write a blog post each week I am sitting here struggling with what to write.
Read MoreThe weeks seem to be running away with me, I can't believe we are already in the middle of October and yet I am loving the feeling of Autumn, of the wild winds and rainbow of colours as the leaves change and fall.
Read MoreHaving a creative business working as an artist isn't exactly like a 9 to 5 job. Creative work is laced with emotion and feeling, there can be difficult moments of lack, despair and comparison to overcome, vast pits of empty nothing when it feels as if all the ideas that I once had have evaporated overnight,
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I was sitting outside a pub with a cold glass of white wine in Saltburn up in the North East, looking out to sea. It was early evening and the sun was beginning to set in spectacular fashion over the water.
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