Sandy

In a new place

It is the middle of 2015 and I am in a new place in my life. Everyday is in some way but this time I am beyond the mountain that it felt like I was climbing and now I am walking gently down the other side. At Easter I stopped going to the same job…

Beautiful Flowers

On my way to a market yesterday I greeted a lady carrying precious flowers. They were precious to her but maybe not to everyone. Dahlias! Locally grown in every exquisite colour you can imagine, they reminded her of the ones her mother grew when she was a child. Precious…. A link to memory that was…

New Years Eve 2014

I am deactivating my Facebook account for a while. I didn’t tell anyone. Not sure they will notice. It doesn’t matter if they don’t. I have noticed how I don’t like the feeling of interacting with people as Newsfeed. I certainly don’t want my life to be that…. A newsfeed. I live alone, I want…

Drawing in Circles

I have been drawing in circles lately…. One holding a smaller creation, holding a smaller creation. Or looking from in out it would seem that the image is expanding from an idea at the heart. Sometimes they feel like dream catchers, except I am awake as I fill the images into them and words of…

Leaves

I draw lots of trees… something about them makes sense to me, not always in ways I can explain. A friend commented on the weekend that they had noticed that despite all the marks I put on the trunks and in the landscape, the leaves are bare. She wondered why…. it made me think. Often…

Reflective Silence

Reflective Silence.

Reflective Silence

There are times when I create that an image emerges that surprises and pleases me because it came from within me. This is one of those images. I work full-time like many people do, fulfilling a job that doesn’t make my heart sing but it is helpful to others. It is a job that means…