There’s a question that has been quietly following me around for some time now, and that is, ‘How do we know when our best is good enough?’. It sounds like a question about what we do. Perhaps it’s really a question about who we believe ourselves to be. As an artist, I recognise the feeling […]
Every year, I look for it. It’s become a kind of ritual: not the performative sort, not something staged for anyone else, but a private habit of noticing. A moment of quiet attention that arrives somewhere between winter and spring, when the world is still holding its breath. Even though I’m back in the U.K. […]
I’m changing the way this website is set up after many years of neglect! I no longer live in Switzerland and am now selling much more than notelets and cards. Please bear with me while these changes take place.
I want to stick a pin in today, as the Swiss Summer begins to fade and the rain percolates through the soil. I want to be able to look back on my time here, some time in the future and feel what I’ve felt over the last few months, as I’ve walked, and walked and […]
This winter has felt so much longer than usual. The weather from Siberia obliterated our snow and sent us high winds, regularly plunging us down to -13’C without wind chill. Everything simply froze solid. The only things that could be seen to move were patches of ice on higher ground, that melted in the sun […]
When I was little, there was a troll that lived under the bridge near my Nan’s caravan. My hair was made of spun gold and I felt magic coursing through the long grass, as I played at the beach. Every rainbow held a secret message for me. Every leaf of clover was lucky. I […]
I’ve recently been working on parts of my character that I didn’t like. Jung would call this our shadow side: the side of us that is hidden or negative; this is our dark side, the side that we would prefer did not exist and for most of the time, we are unconscious to it. It’s […]
Having rejigged my website a bit and realised I need better shots of all of my artwork, I took a moment this morning to step outside and inhale my first fly of the year. I live in the countryside, near a lot of water and it’s at this time that the forests start to wake […]