I was recently invited to give a keynote presentation at Glasgow University, for the research network DeathWrites. Co-ordinated by Dr Amy Shea, Dr Elizabeth Reeder, and Dr Naomi Richards, the project aims to develop and support a network of Scotland-based writers from...
I’ve been listening to BBC Radio Three ‘Night Tracks’ a lot while drawing recently. Yesterday on the programme I heard the replay of a live performance from a recent all-night live concert. It was a piece I know well from a recording I have on CD, by the composer...
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, if you have been one of my coaching clients, or if you’ve been one of my students over the years, you’ll know I am a big fan of approaching our creative work as a practice. Practice is a word that has so many useful...
Last week I was invited by an old friend, the artist Nina Pope, to join an online Zoom conversation with a long-standing discussion group of artists she has been part of for twenty years. It was a real pleasure to gather with artists who are based all over the...
One of the things I’ve been enjoying about working with other artists and writers is the discussions that open up around the work that my coaching clients are engaged with. Ideas I am interested in find new resonance in conversation with others. Old ones bloom back...
What colour is water anyway? I can’t quite get it right in the studio. I can’t quite name it in writing either. The loch is black is dull grey is purple-brown is warm brown is black is mist is grey is white is clear is invisible. The sea is...
