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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 head. Whatever is coming out, or how it is coming out; it is deeply felt. […]

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 not borne and will sit in the body, the family, in the community/society without being expressed. […]

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, sometimes years. This probably took a year. I enjoyed layering the colour and seeing the shapes of the doves appear in the […]