Feeling profound. Often.

Finding your place as an artist in the world can be a long and muddy process. I am tentatively moving towars CONFIDENCE in my own art making; towards TRUST in my own creative instincts and towards a sense of VALUE in my journey to my own TRUTH.


This poem by Mary Oliver is something I keep coming back to, not only as an artist but as a human being...

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Challenging and reasuring. Perhaps.

Thanks for listening!

Well it has been a whole year since my last post!

What's up?
How are you?
Are you listening?
Shhhhhh....


In that year a lot has changed, including moving studio and setting up my own studio space in my home. This was a good move for me!

I now have permission to be creative whenever and however I want! It is a time of allowing my creativity to be part of my every day life, not someting seperate. As I have a 'day job', I didn't like that feeling of 'going to work' at the studio. I have been exploring many new things in the studio, much of which is still brewing...so you will have to wait.

However...

I have come across some pictures from a previous exhibition which I would like to share. The works were exhibited at the Foyer Gallery and Resaurant in Aberdeen a few years ago and some still exist in the same, or altered, form.

These small pieces, above, are about A5 sized and are pinned to the wall with dress making pins


These delicate 'camisoles' are made of very fine latex, embossed with vintage style patterns. Each with its unique pattern or motif, they hang on different coloured hula-hoops. As you see, these were hung with varying distances between them.


This 10m long dress is also made of latex, this time with colourful beaded lettering embedded all down the lenth of it on one side. The top section is trimmed with vintage lace.


The umbrella is hand-made with delicate latex, embossed with floral patterns. It does open up and has a trim of dainty vintage lace. It is most beautiful when held up to the light.



This dress is made of blue J-cloths, pink netting and hung on candy-striped hula hoop.



These photos are A4 size. Each depict a similar image but with subtle differences, which changes the feel of the image and the possible narratives. They are mounted simply on constuction board and are also fixed to the wall individually with pins.


This light box allows the glowing heart to shine through the latex curtain on which the apron shape is made up of paper collage pieces embedded in the latex.

The umbrella and handbag are both made of embossed latex. The bag is supported and contained in it's own red high-gloss box frame.

So that's all for now...

thanks for listening x