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She leans forward as the words come pouring out of her pen. There is a sense of urgency to get it out onto paper. She can feel the ever-growing shape of something as it trying to burst out of her [...]

When someone is upset; hurting; grieving, what happens in you? Can you bear to watch? And if the person is there with you, can you sit with them and be in that space with them? Too often grief is [...]

The background of the painting was there for a while before the more abstract shape over the top. Paintings have their own journey to completion and sometimes it takes a couple of weeks, [...]

To be understood and understand others is realising that, when people speak their own truth they are using their own language. Which might be alien to you, even though they are using familiar [...]

Many of us will at one stage or the other yearn for freedom: freedom from…. certain feelings, experiences or situations in our lives. In our effort to be free of these things, we might have [...]

Deflection Please… be the object of my love So I may experience love Please… be the object of my belief So I may experience hope Please… be the object of my opinion So I may feel like I know [...]

All I know is myself. Others really are a mystery. And I am a mystery to them. All I can live is my own life All I can hear are my own thoughts All I can feel are my own feelings All I can know [...]

The Earth For My Head: this is the name that came to me for my exhibition in 2018. The title always comes after the fact. I started with just drawing a head for the simple reason that I enjoy [...]

  Good Friday Dear World, I let go of you needing to be a certain way for me. Dear Life, I let go of you needing to be a certain way for me. I lay down my yearning and striving and sit with [...]