I realised that I have not written a blog since I started my PhD six years ago. This seems quite telling now, how my voice became silent when it should have confidently developed. The imposter syndrome I still feel is crippling and the juggling of family life impossible. Not impossible at first but six years later it has 'got me' and i have pinned my PhD to be continued in calmer times. Not my research and practice I hasten to add. That continues within my very existence and

With a collection of work rich in visual feeling, I cannot help but hold an amount of disappointment that it will not be submitted for...

Giving myself time to breath in a quiet room. To digest the vast amounts of information I have absorbed and revelled in. Where is all...

It’s been far too long since I last posted. I Have been working hard to bring life and art together which, has been so important in my...

The continuity of the house in its subtle form feels like its becoming less of an importance within the landscapes that I am creating. Is...

Throughout June I was lucky enough to be chosen as Artist in Residence at a local Secondary School. This was a wonderful experience which...

Sitting in the midday sun, reading Louise Bourgeois- La famille by Thomas Kellein, 2006. The introduction is enlightening and creates a...

I was recently asked to do some street art activities at the annual carnival in my local town. I prepared a board for children to make...

The holding back of using the human form in my practice has, in affect, taken me back to ‘little boxes’. It has opened my mind and...

How do you express pain, trauma, memory? Im using myself as the subject. Can I draw out the internal kept deeply private inside my mind....

The rebellious Klimt who refused to fit ‘in the box, body language symbolism and the relationship with phsyco analysis. Im captivated in...

portraiture is a natural starting point as my practice. it’s how I have been externalising what’s inside. The use of subject, discussed...

This is the title of my Proposal for Study. My starting point. I’m trying to combine a head full of memory, emotion, trauma, anti...

I can't remember at what point I thought,'I know, I haven't got enough to do, lets do a masters degree!' But, do you know what? I am so...