June 29, 2021

If only I had more space

Maybe what I need isn’t more space, but a different way of thinking about the ‘limited’ space that I have.

June 8, 2021

The trade of vulnerability

There seems a universal law – the more you risk, the greater the reward. It governs everything we do from the obvious – gambling – to the less obvious – love. Putting ‘yourself’ out there takes courage because it means we’re making ourselves vulnerable. Vulnerable to attack. Vulnerable to critique. Vulnerable to making mistakes that people… Continue reading The trade of vulnerability

May 18, 2021

The person up-ahead

Maybe, instead of trying to compare choices to make big decisions we need to focus on the tiny decisions we make, everyday.

January 19, 2021

If only, what if

We can’t always control what happens to us in life, but we can control the story we tell ourselves about the good and the bad that it brought us.

January 5, 2021

Uninspiring Inspiration

Can ‘reading the best to be the best’ be great advice, all the time? Or, can inspiration sometimes be… uninspiring?

September 28, 2020

Learning through mimicry

It’s surprising what your fingers will do, automatically, when you’ve spent some time copying the writers you admire, word-for-word.

September 1, 2020

The problem with pure

Are acrylics or digital any less ‘pure’ than oils? Those in the art world favour tradition over new technology, but everything was new technology once.

August 3, 2020

Lucky breaks are everywhere

Our intuition tells us that good luck is harder to find than bad luck, but what if luck was just about the way you looked at something?