January 30, 2024

Getting a feel for the thing

What if ‘writing’ your story or your idea didn’t involve using words but, instead, you did it with pictures, first?

December 26, 2023

Staring at clouds

Why is it so difficult to give ourselves permission to stare at clouds when we’re at adults, especially when it pays off so consistently?

December 19, 2023

Starting the engine

Starting is and has always been the most difficult bit of art making for me. But knowing that if I turn the key, the rest writes itself, makes it easier.

September 5, 2023

I’ve never done this before

Almost everything we’ve done before was, at some point, something we’d never done before. So what can we learn from this?

July 18, 2023

Why bother?

Why bother trying to make art? If it’s all been done already, surely there’s no point. Right?

June 20, 2023

New shoes

Maybe what we wear matters more thank we think when we’re making art?

April 25, 2023

Art as therapy

What if we were able to tell ourselves a story to be OK with prioritising art in our lives? What sort of work would we make?

March 21, 2023

Art needs life

It’s easy to feel that, sometimes, work ‘gets in the way’ of art. But, art needs that time, and those experiences, to make work that matters.