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My grandfather’s paintbox
I have been contemplating trying watercolours again for a long time. (Trying new things always takes me a long time.) But what keeps stopping me is that the colours in the old painting tin that I inherited from my grandfather – an architect and talented […]
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WORD + image … New Online Adventure Enrolling Now
It’s Saturday morning. I thought I was going to be having a quiet weekend after the launch of two books last month… but nope…this wasn’t letting me alone until I shared it with you. I’ve said no to it several times this year. But now […]
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It’s Safe to Be Me: An Exploration of Art and Identity
I have recently been allowing myself to paint again. My soul sister was over this week, she and her husband are involved in the professional and academic art scenes where they live. And I realise how despite my books, despite my paintings, I struggle to […]
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Spectrum Winner… and early bird rates
Thanks for all the entries to the Spectrum 2016 giveaway – we had 33 in total – I am delighted that so many of you are as excited about it as me. I only had one place to give away – which was won by […]
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Make Your 2016 Beautiful – Win Big!
To create is to live fully: To heal. To dare. To dream. To BE. This is what I believe. This is what inspires this site. My books. My art. All of my work. This is what I long to share with you. When I […]
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Stop Sitting On Your Gold
Us creatives, we have a habit of putting our blood, sweat and tears in digging and tunneling hard, searching for gold. We find it, we polish it up. But when we take it to market, get scared that maybe it’s not gold. Not REAL gold. […]
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Vote for Us!
A hundred years ago women could not vote. A hundred years ago we also did not have the internet. But now we have both… so you can vote for this darling blog in the Blog Awards Ireland, 2015, where we have been shortlisted – for […]
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The Creative Polygamist, Or Why I Have No Time for a 1D World
Often I feel like a 4D person in a world that wants 1Ds… No, no, before you all eat me alive, not THAT 1D… though my daughter knows I’m hardly their biggest fan. No, I’m talking about 1 dimensionality. In social media land we are […]
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Bringing Images Down – A Reflection on the Creative Process
I have started painting again. Every time I find it is so hard to break through all the early falters, and finally birth new art. This is one of my first new paintings in over a year, Burning Woman… the lost archetype of the feminine […]
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