My Story

AEDM, doodles and introducing Patsy

30 November 2011

I cannot tell a lie, beloveds, it has been a crappy month. When I last wrote, I was just recovering from illness, and was ready to tackle Art Every Day Month with gusto. Alas! the best laid plans, etc, etc. Instead, I injured my back, and have spent the last three weeks pretty much incapacitated [...]

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Catching up and moving forward

9 November 2011

I’m sorry, beloveds. I’ve been ill. Again. Alas, this is a bit of a pattern, which I have not yet solved. I work like a manic Jack Russell terrier so as to make a deadline, get something finished, get it out there, make an impact. And I do – make the deadline, get it finished, [...]

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Market Days: Towcester Craft & Design Show

13 October 2011

I know, I know. You’ve been thinking I was run over by the herd of rampaging unicorns again, weren’t you, beloveds? Or was it the one-eyed troubadour this time? Truth to tell, I’ve been very, very busy a-Questing for the last few weeks as I prepare for my very first, official Real-Artist-in-Public here-and-now Market Day. I will [...]

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The power of a new story, or why questing knocks building a business into a cocked hat

5 September 2011

O best beloveds, there is power in stories. I’ve always believed this. (Which is why, despite having a degree that focused on the great literature of four languages*, I still prefer to read a genre novel with a rollocking good plotline and colourful characters over a contemporary exploration of virtuoso prose and modern angst.) But [...]

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September is the finest month for Questing

1 September 2011

The air is clearer, the sky bluer and a hint of the turning of the wheel of the year is in the air. It is time. I am going on a Quest. And you, my best beloveds, will be coming with me, I hope. Because, like all the best heros in the mythic structure of the [...]

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Start with the art

7 July 2011

Today, beloveds, I’m running an experiment. Not with test tubes and bunsen burners and fume cupboards. (Although, how cool would that be? Stinks! Bangs! Things bursting into green flame! But I digress.) No, today is an experiment with energy, creativity and getting things done. (No ™ for that. I’m done with experts, remember?) I have [...]

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A declaration

4 July 2011

O my best beloveds, if you know me at all, you know that I’m all about the stories. Sitting in the same room in front of my work, I’ll happily talk your ear off telling you all the background behind why my mermaids have both gills and a nose, just exactly what the oak hamadryad [...]

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The perils of using the living room as a studio

31 March 2011

Not quite what I had in mind.

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A doodle update

21 February 2011

So, back when I was dying in December (yes, dying not dyeing), and then when I was recovering from death in January, there was pretty much only one creative thing I was able to do. Yep, you guessed it – the big book of doodles got more pages filled in. Because, well, it’s just colouring [...]

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