‘You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Light • Air • Salt • Breath The quality of light in Australia is a little different to the UK, somehow it seems brighter, and casts everything in a myriad of colour. The trees have cooler tones, and the sea is sometimes like a mirror
‘I miss the Shire. I spent all my life pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures. But my own adventure turned out to be quite different.’ 🤍 I’ve been loving spending time in Australia, but my he
Some of the mounted pieces which are currently available at the Harbour Cottage Gallery Open Exhibition. The Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright will always have a special place in my heart, being the first gallery in which I organised, curated
There is a beautiful part of Aboriginal culture that I learned about recently, in that creation stories and stories of the land and sea- which carry deep knowledge and cultural history- were and still are passed through generations, and criss-cross t
I’m so excited to say that my work has been selected for the Big Art Show in Scotland, and will be exhibited in the Art Department Gallery in Glasgow next month! The exhibition runs from the 15th August to the 31st October, and I cannot wait
‘Sometimes, you misjudge the distance, the wave breaks early, and you are submerged.’ Words from a new journal entry today, notes on overwhelm. This week has been hard, and I’ve been struggling to come up for breath. Painting hel
‘This ocean has taken away so many things away that I love, I wondered, almost hoped, if one day the tides would take me too, gently, as I slept. My eyes would become glistening seashells, my hair tangled kelp, my bones lingering driftwood, m
Letting go, and looking out. It’s been an emotional time here in Australia. Managing the emotions which flood over me can be a challenge sometimes. Arrival complications, terrifying sea storms, and that deep painful feeling of missing somethi
Whilst in Australia this week, I read about something in my book called Dadirri. Dadirri is an Indigenous word in the Ngangikurungkurr language, and means ‘ inner, deep listening, and quiet, still awareness.’ I’ve been practisin
Slowly finding my rhythm here in Australia, and spending a lot of my time by the ocean. Being by the water is one of the only places I feel calm these days, between the news of challenges at sea from J, to the constant rush of new experiences whils
Delighted to share that a selection of my work will be going to the Summer Open Exhibition at the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kircudbright this July! The exhibition will run from the 27th July to the 9th August, and is featuring a while range of won