I used to run an Art department in a big youth zone. We had a great team of artists, musicians and actors who would deliver fantastic art workshops night after night. At some of the sessions I would work alongside the visual artists and teach young people how to draw cartoons. I got to knowContinue reading “I can’t draw”
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Slogan
One of my favourite authors is Douglas Coupland. He’s one of those people who seems to know what’s going on. His books are so in tune with The Now, whilst at the same time being so visionary, that I have an “Oh, yeah” moment about every 20 pages of everything he’s written. Visit his website,Continue reading “Slogan”
The Birds are Dumb
During Lockdown I, like many others, began to notice birdsong and, on further investigation, the birds themselves. It started me thinking and I wrote this little poem… Sitting in the treetops, perched on telegraph wires, singing sweetly as if nothing is wrong. Calling to one another in the bright ice sunshine. Dumb birds. Don’t theyContinue reading “The Birds are Dumb”
#showyourwork
I’ve been going through this thing, for most of life if I’m honest, where I think – who cares anyway? Why bother writing, painting, making things when no-one is interested in what I do? I guess it’s a mixture of insecurity, nihilism, existential angst, impostor syndrome and low self-worth (that’s a heady cocktail!). So IContinue reading “#showyourwork”
Being the first
As I begin my shiny new blog and website I understand there are currently more than 600 million blogs. If we divide the earth’s population of 7.53 billion by 600 million that leaves an audience share of 12.55 people. My previous incarnations of blogging have averaged 4 people and a small brown dog so IContinue reading “Being the first”
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