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Something New a Day: Day 6 — I applied to join a very choosy network

Well today on my journey of re-wiring my brain and feeling the fear but doing it anyway I attempted to join a rather selective Arts Network.  I always find these things awkward and I don’t really like the idea of them; after all art is subjective so someone judging me and something that is very […]

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Fragments Selected for SELF exhibtion

I was very happy yesterday morning when I discovered that Fragments has been chosen by Young Quay at Quay Arts to feature in their curated exhibition, SELF. If you are on the Isle of Wight between 1st March and the end of April then please do pop in an have a look. The Private View […]

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Something New a Day, Day 4: Create a Fake Social Network

I was unable to post yesterday as I spent all day creating the fake social network and then felt so unwell I went to bed.  Anyhow you will probably wonder why anyone would want to create a fake social network if it wasn’t for bad reasons.   Well  I have been working on an art […]

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Something New Day 2: Publishing a photobook

So my attempts to change my life by changing one thing every day almost had a setback today as soon as they started when I woke up feeling incredibly unwell.  In fact I was so ill I had to forgo my Father-in-law’s birthday and felt horribly guilty for upsetting my family (my husband was fine […]

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New Dawn

I have decided that I am sick and tired of my life staying the same.  What is it that Einstein said and my husband keeps reminding me about: “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”   So what are we to […]

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A Road Less Travelled at the Well Hung Gallery

If you have any interest in seeing some of my work in the “real” world then you can catch Snapshot at The Chocolate Factory with Shape Arts until the 30th and A Road Less Travelled at the Well Hung Gallery in Hoxton until 29th February and if you want to make an artist very happy you […]

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London Art Fair 2014

So last week was quite a busy old week for me; I had some work in an exhibition open and I had the London Art Fair to attend (thanks very much to Axis web for the tickets).   Sadly my health means that despite my original plan to attend both the private view and the […]

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Realising Your Achievements

I have been feeling pretty rubbish lately; family problems, poor health and life not going as I want it to have left me feeling, well shit to be honest.  In my head I have a picture of what life should be like and how I should be and my reality never matches up (I suffer […]

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Faces of Caring Exhibition

I did write a big post here but somehow I managed to delete without realising; publish it and then realise so I could not press undo….. don’t you hate it when that happens?! Anyhow the Faces of Caring exhibition is a photographic exhibition curated by the lovely Katherine Sparks of netbuddy, a free community where […]

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Memories & Dreamscapes

My series Memories and Dreamscapes was recently exhibited as part of Art in Libraries.  I believe this is a brilliant way of bringing art into the lives of everyone and is probably the first glimpse of artistic pieces that many children get. Libraries are amazing places where people from all walks of life can be […]