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New Year’s Greetings!
Read more: New Year’s Greetings!2nd January 2024 Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a lovely and relaxing Christmas. As someone who likes to be in tune with the seasons, the Christmas period, for me, is about hunkering down, catching up on sleep, watching old films, doing jigsaws, spending time with friends and family… and yes, eating…
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Family Stories
Read more: Family Stories13th September 2023 I am in the final edits of my current adult novel, The Photograph Album, although I’m pretty sure I said this a few weeks ago too! The fact that I am still editing is thanks to my wonderful beta readers who have given me such incredible and helpful suggestions and feedback. As…
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
Read more: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes11th August 2023 It’s been five years since I’ve blogged and a lot has happened in that time. I like changes though. Obviously, not all change feels good, but it can mean movement, growth, re-assessing and sometimes taking time out, which is kind of what I did. Creatively though, I’ve still been active. I learnt…
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DM World Culture Project
Read more: DM World Culture Project16th January 2018 A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would get involved in a co-produced World Collections project run by Derby Museums. The basic premise was to produce a piece of writing from a collection of words gathered by the local community – words that were felt to unite everyone across the…
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A Graphic Novel Gathering
Read more: A Graphic Novel Gathering3rd January 2017 I love the merging of words and pictures, always have. I think we are introduced to this at an early age with picture books. It continued for me with a love of comics and then illustrated books such as Aesop’s Fables, Butterfly Ball, The Flower Fairies and the Asterix books. A family member…
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The Other Side of Summer
Read more: The Other Side of Summer30th September 2016 It’s been a busy Summer and it’s nice to come out the other side and reflect on the events that have influenced my artwork and small steps that I’ve made, and to stand back and look at what has gone well. It’s easy to get caught up sometimes in day to day…
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Do You Know Your Needs?
Read more: Do You Know Your Needs?3rd June 2016 I haven’t blogged for a while, but this topic came up in conversation yesterday, and it’s something which has been on my mind recently. We’re brought up to share, to be with others, to socialise, to fit in, to obey rules about what we can and cannot do and that becomes so…
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Happy New Year to Madeline
Read more: Happy New Year to Madeline7th January 2016 Meet Madeline! She’s the first of a series of funky faces in acrylics that I’ll be working on over the next few weeks. Madeline’s pretty important because she takes me back to my late teens when I predominantly drew people, faces and clothes. I’d actually been offered a place at art college to…
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Having a Plan!
Read more: Having a Plan!5th November 2015 It’s now been a year and a half since I started taking my art seriously, and by that I mean painting more, sketching more, showing people what I am working on and the finished product. It has also meant setting up an Etsy shop, putting my writing on one side (in my…
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Mixing It Up!
Read more: Mixing It Up!26th May 2015 Three months into a house move that has yet to actually happen, I am trying to get on with life as normal, ignoring the boxes and the overall appearance that my house has just been burgled, and throwing myself into a variety of arty stuff! For my latest piece – just finished…
