A Fallow Year

The last year has been an unusal challenge - my mum hasn't been well (she's now, thankfully, better), and helping her through surgery, and supporting the children as well, has meant that my capacity for work has been much reduced. I have done things, but nowhere near as much as normal. Particularly, a sustained period of painting has been lacking. I'm hoping that I'm now at a point where that balance might shift a bit. I'm embarking on a Walking the Land project, lead by Janette Kerr, called Deep Encounters. The place I've chosen to work on over the coming year is a patch of land in Glenarm Nature Reserve, somewhere I've been wanting to work for years, so who knows where that will lead... and I'm still spending a lot of time in the woods here, thinking about trees under stress (also connected to another Walking the Land project, Walking in Pairs. I'm working and walking with Sara Dudman, and the project is led by Tamsin Grainger. There are many paintings underway, though truthfully I've slightly lost the thread of what I was doing with them. To be regained...