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What remains?
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Creative work requires energy, health, time, focus, space, money. Take these away from us and what remains of our creative practice?
This is the question I found myself pondering with a mentoring client who has been going th...
Thoughts come before language
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Words are slow to arrive at the page today, as if they are coming from somewhere far away. I stare at the page and write in stumbling bursts. Maybe I’m rusty.
I’m painting a lot.
Daybreak, (detail) 2026, Acrylic and brass...
Five thousand years of sky and stone and water
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It’s a pale day, warm and still. The air is soft, the light diffuse and shadowless. I am sitting on a rock close by the water’s edge, just below the single-track road, down among the flowering meadowsweet and tall sedges. Cad...
A subversive silence
Hello friends
We have been gifted, this week, with a series of perfect sunsets. The wind has stilled and even the sea’s endless motion has been no more than the quiet lapping of gentle waves.
But the light! The light has been spellbindin...
By leaves we live
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I’ve been thinking about green this month. There’s a lot of it about just now, in the fullness of mid-July growth. So I’ve revisited and reworked a post from a couple of years ago, circling back to pick up an idea I’ve not qu...
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Award-winning artist and writer | Artist's writing coach | Orkney islander | Water watcher | Author of THE CLEARING (Hachette UK)
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