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Nature

April 18, 2017

I have just come back from a long, relaxing Easter weekend in the countryside. My husband and I went to stay with some friends in West Sussex, and we also spent a day near Stroud in the West country. Coming from London and immersive yourself in a life of walks and slow time ticking is rather exotic, and is actually a little bit disorienting!

I have been craving more nature in the past few months, connecting with flowers, insects, the sun and just the general peacefulness of it all. I was in Devon a couple of weeks ago, and after 4 days, I really felt I could connect to plants in a deeper and much more meaningful way. I "become" the plant in some strange way, I "go inside" of it, it goes inside of me. And this connection is immensely useful when you are making art, because it stops to be just about you, you become available for "what is" as opposed to the stuff you project onto it. From this place, I can always let the art create itself, it grows slowly, organically. It surprises me, and if I'm there to listen, it will tell me where I should go next, which mark to make, in joy and with innocence, like a beginner. In art like in life, being in a space of "unknown" as opposed to "known" is the most powerful act there is. Each time, it will be different, each time, I create as if for the first time.

And of course this space is not always so easy to access, it takes work to maintain it, to access it. It is as if I needed to "seduce" this space, like a male bird of paradise flaunting its colours to attract the female, show it that I care, show it I work to preserve it. And this morning, after a few days away, I don't feel in that space at all. I feel worried, I feel I don't know where to go in the next piece, I have lost the flame and the space. All there is to do, is to sit, relax, and breathe. So I will.

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More collage.
I mean it just creates itself I don’t do nothin’. #collage #play #love #art #artstudio #london #contemporaryart
Shapes n things.  #collage #art #notsurewhatsgoingon #surprise
Collage bébé... #vogue #voguecutouts #cutouts #art #collage #enfin #artist #monday #london
My favourite pages from yesterday’s “Meet&Draw” workshop @thebritishmuseum  I was cheeky and drew myself...Felt good to draw faces for once!
#drawing #oilpastel #sunshine #saturday #art #artist #sketchbook #artworkshop #workshop #drawinginmuseums
The boobs are back...
When I was little, all I drew were naked women, and occasionally naked men. The women were always big, and the men really small.
I’m enjoying getting back into some people drawings, people with boobs mainly.
#theboobsareback #women #femininity #art #sketchbook #artist
New Workshop folks! Friday 1st February, 1-4pm. £18 per person.
I am very pleased to introduce my brand new workshop I had in mind for a while... it’s called “Meet & Draw”, and we will be starting the new year with the British Museum.
When I was a little girl, I loved to draw in museums, I simply just brought in my sketchbook, my pens, sat down somewhere and off we went! I think that drawing is one of the most exciting things to do in life, it’s intimate, it can be meditative, and it is simply fun!
There’s such a great pleasure in observing something full of history and beauty, and making it new again on the page. The British Museum is especially inspiring to me, and I will take us on a journey inside the museum, we will find our spots and draw together through a set of exercises. We will be mixing up figurative and abstract drawing.
Each student brings their own materials and sketchbook.
We will be visiting the free parts of the museum, so there’s no fee on top!
I hope to see you there, link in bio!
www.meetanddraw.eventbrite.co.uk
Trying out these new oil pastels @marlondude got me for Christmas, I mean Santa 🙊 ... and a new big huge moleskine sketchbook, I’m in heaven!
#sketchbook #art #pastels #oilpastel #doodling #colour #abstract #moleskine
Really interested in indoor murals at the moment... do you know some awesome mural artists who work indoors for me to look at?
#murals #indoors #art #home

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