I am frantically busy trying to cram as many minutes a day as I can into one of my studios. In Newlyn, at Trewarveneth, I keep a large jug of garden flowers which give me a lovely welcome each day when I arrive. The room is gradually filing up with works, many of them not yet complete. I am working with watercolours and with oils. The date of my show in Edinburgh has been brought forward, to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival, and I need many finished new works for the show. At home I am working on smaller watercolour pieces, many of them re-works of pieces which were not finished ( even though I once thought they were!… I usually have to push works so far before they are really complete).
I am working with the images of the umbilicus, the pre-born, the wild, psychic antennae, the matrixial, the hovering at the borders of known and not-known.
I’ve also been invited to be part of a show at Bridport Arts centre early next year, called The Theatre of the Soul.
Next month I’m going to be working with Alice Herrick in London at an Art Fete. I’ve proposed a stall called ‘I CAN DRAW YOUR DREAM’.
Before that I’ll be teaching two workshops – one at St. Ives School of Painting, and the other at Cornwall College.
