“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do” – Cheryl Strayed I loved making my book ‘Gather’ for the Are You Book Enough…
Marseille
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light” – Le Corbusier Just before Christmas I took a fleeting trip to Marseille for a couple of days. In the past, whenever I’ve been one of…
Gather
In November of 2019 I joined a community on Instagram – Are You Book Enough. Every month they have a theme for book artists, and we share the ideation, creation and the progress of the book. At the end of…
The minotaur and me
“I know they accuse me of arrogance, perhaps also of misanthropy, perhaps madness too.” The Minotaur and me. It all began in 2001 when I was an art student with an interest in all things to do with fairytale and…
Red Earth
There’s an awful lot of backstory here when all I really want to talk about is how I came to discover making my own paint from red earth. But first, let me set the scene and I’ll get round to…
Forest fire
Like everyone else I’m a complex, kaleidoscopic creature, and a big part of that is my battle with cancer. I’m in remission, finished with surgeries, chemo, radiotherapy and injections. When asked casually “how are you feeling?” I say I’m doing…