goodness me. I blinked, and now it is November. It's been another extraordinary year. I've had exhibitions in New Orleans, Scotland and England. Taught in Canada, Scotland and France, and taught myself a lot about small-scale film-making for my online school. The weather is still...
two places have become available in the only fully residential retreat I will be leading this year, in beautiful Bretagne - Brittany, on the shining edge of the shimmering Atlantic Ocean. this is one of the thin places of the whirled, where it feels as if you could easily step from this one to...
dear Martine sorry for the slow reply ... I have tried several times to reply to your kind comment on the previous post, and Blogger simply would not publish. My fingers were crossed that it would work today, because it's nice to be able to engage in conversation, I think. But Blogger refused....
the glorious view over the heathlands, from Mount Chudalup one of the remarkable wildflowers in South West Western Australia to the 1393 folks who've stuck by this blog over the years. a little over ten years, as it happens. thank you for hanging in there. this calendar year has been a...
I am pinching myself ... but it is true. I have taken the plunge. (what on earth is she on about, I hear you mutter) Thanks to my friend Christi Carter telling me about Seasonal Affective Disorder, (something that was unknown to me) which prompted me to dream up a February project to help keep...
'lifeboat' Lately there has been another tsunami of posts on the interpixies by various people operating in the creative arts whirled, complaining about copyists. The funny thing is that many of them derive a living from having either copied someone else's work from a book, poached a...
the title of this post is running like an earworm in my head. since we last met I have been in the west of Scotland and also in the west of Australia both beautiful. I took a few days on my own after teaching at Newburgh (the two reddish pix are details of 'shibusa...