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This workshop, which finishes today, has been a full and intense experience. We’ve worked with dreams, memories, the breath, bodily impulses, the intuition and shamanic walking. A group of eight has come together as one animal, or a flock of birds, to produce something memorable and fine. I have used my drum to help with […]

Poet and Professor Alan Bleakley has written a wonderful essay on my work. I am very moved by his words, and grateful to him for reflecting on my work so deeply. Kate Walters’ Bodies Without Organs   Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari describe a difference between smooth and striated space. Striated space is settled or […]

I am working hard in my studio with oil and watercolour, preparing for a show at Arusha Gallery, Dundas Street, in Edinburgh opening early August. I will be going up there to give a talk on August 24th. I’m also excited about going to run a stall at A Fête Worse than Death in London […]

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 […]

It’s just two weeks since we returned from Italy, and the paradise on earth that is Castelluccio in Norcia. I still can’t read my notes, made when being quiet in the beautiful immensity which is the Piano Grande.             

Last weekend I returned from 12 days in Italy, walking, researching,drawing and being quiet (if not still!). We flew to Rome, then train and bus to Norcia through an almighty thunderstorm, which became more powerful as we climbed through the passes to Norcia. The next morning was cool but sunny and after taking in the […]

I’ve spent two lovely evenings the last two Wednesdays teaching a life class at Newlyn School of Art. Before I go to teach I focus on asking what the focus for the evening should be. For the first evening the word’ fluidity’ came to me strongly, so we worked with wet paper, using mediums which […]

I returned yesterday form York, bringing a few pieces of unsold work home. Quite a lot has been retained by the curators, Robert Teed and Paula Jackson, and some have gone to Edinburgh for Arusha Gallery’s show at Edinburgh Cathedral. Both my talk and the drawing workshop went extremely well, and I was delighted by […]

I will be teaching a few workshops in the next months… here are some details, with dates. I also teach 1:1 if artists/students  feel an intensive private session would suit them better. St. Ives School of Painting July 8th – 11th, working with Dreamscapes and Memories, drawing with the breath, with music, shamanic walking, monotype; […]

I taught a day’s workshop at Cornwall College, after giving a talk on my work. We worked with drawing and the breath, non-dominant hands, music and the body. Intense, tiring, but extremely productive. Lots of people came and they worked hard all day to produce some really interesting work. Here are some photos (taken with […]