31 Jan Catching Up…with Colours and Clothes

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It was a crazy few weeks before the New Year; I was planning and organising loads of stuff around my book launch, running workshops, sending out calendars and hosting my Artist’s Open House. It was full on to say the least, but kind of exciting...

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06 Nov Conscious Creativity…with The Experimental Perfume Club

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When I began writing Chapter 7 of my book ‘The Senses and Synaesthesia’, I hadn’t realised that it would become the heart of what I wanted ‘Conscious Creativity’ to be about. I realised how passionate I was about getting people to connect to their senses...

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08 Sep Saturday…with some Wabi Sabi

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Yesterday I went to London to have my hair done; it’s a treat… I always get the train up from Brighton and then guiltily spend a fortune on my hair, which seems a frivolous and vain action, but one which often makes me feel a...

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25 Feb A Stay in Yorkshire…with David Hockney, Peeling Paint and Sunset on the Moors

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Last February I went to stay with Rachel @welliesandlove at her home in Yorkshire where her famed round window lives… She’s virtually my cousin as my grandfather and her grandmother were each other’s constant companions when we were younger. I’d wanted to get back for...

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31 Aug Thursday…with Yellows ( and a last chance Earlybird )

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I was working with yellows today; a sort of burnt, yellowy gold collation , and a sort of homage to the end of the Summer and the approach of Autumn… It’s all in the positioning of the pears…( I should have thrown these out ages...

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27 Aug Sunday…with the ‘Consciously Creative’ online course coming soon

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I’ve been working on some of the details for my new online course starting in September and wanted to share them here first with a few images to give you a taste of the sort of thing I’ll be teaching ( There’s also more information...

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21 Aug Monday…with Reds and Yellows

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I woke up today needing, or maybe just feeling, something of the reds and yellows…I don’t plan things, colours just sort of happen, and while I think it may have been the small arrangement of  oddments on the mantlepiece which I brought back from my...

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19 Aug Saturday…with Turkish Delight ( and an Online Creative Course Teaser )

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It always kind of takes me by surprise when I see something out of the corner of my eye and then suddenly know I have to get to the table and create a new composition. The table is the best blank canvas I’ve ever had,...

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04 Aug Friday…with ‘Perfume’ at Somerset House

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This week I was invited by Somerset House to experience their current exhibition ‘Perfume’ – A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent and I also had the opportunity to create my own, personal scent with the Experimental Perfume Club. I was really excited as those of...

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06 May Saturday…with Georg Jensen and London Craft Week

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This week I was invited by Georg Jensen to visit their Mount St store in London to watch one of their Danish silversmiths from Copenhagen, Tina Bentzen, demonstrate some of her techniques, her sketches, answer questions and show us some of her amazing hand made...

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