Glorious Technicolor

We just got back from a family holiday in Anglesey. I know I should have been out there with sketchbook and pencil but the truth is, I really needed a recharge-the-batteries kind of holiday. And I got one! Blessed with daily sunshine, the island of Anglesey seemed lit in Technicolor and each landscape and garden visited trapped in a time warp taking us back to the 1940's and 50's. We had a gentle holiday sitting on the beach, eating dairy ice-cream, collecting shells. The evenings were spent sharing good food and playing Monopoly. Just what I needed. Though now I'm back I need another holiday with a sketchbook under my arm!

Website update!

If you've not noticed yet, my website has had a makeover! With the confidence I got from doing the Photocraft course I was able to see how I could use photography to communicate a bit more about my ideas and inspirations. My colour has come back and I'm looking forward to seeing that in some of the new originals I am planning. The website and blog are now linked in to all my social media so whether you're on twitter, Facebook or Linkedin you can keep in touch with me at the studio.  It was a labour of love putting the site together with wonderful technical support from David Hallows.

Colour Happy

Today I have been featured on the Photocraft blog for their Kitchen Table Diary. It is lovely to see a reflection of where I am right now, and just how far I have moved forward in the last two months. I've been able to look to the future and make a plan for my business and creative growth.

Full colour

Doing something new can be very refreshing. This week the Photocraft online photography course that I am doing will come to an end. It has been such a life saver in helping me move forward in my business. It has opened my eyes to new possibilities and helped me see my own creativity with fresh eyes. Completely unexpectedly, it has made me paint my wall beetroot!

New ways of working and playing have reinvigorated me and I'm very proud that I'll be featured in the new Photocraft tutorial on creating inspiration boards. You can see a trailer here....

This week I'm learning about styling shoots so have been out collecting props. After a week of pinning style inspiration on Pinterest, I was like a kid in a sweet shop when I got to Homebase! I'm loving the Habitat ranges there. I think I might be a rainbow when I grow up!

Now I Become Myself

Now I Become Myself

Now I become myself. It's taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people's faces,
Run madly, as if Time were there,
Terribly old, crying a warning,
"Hurry, you will be dead before--"
(What? Before you reach the morning?
Or the end of the poem is clear?
Or love safe in the walled city?)
Now to stand still, to be here,
Feel my own weight and density!
The black shadow on the paper
Is my hand; the shadow of a word
As thought shapes the shaper
Falls heavy on the page, is heard.
All fuses now, falls into place
From wish to action, word to silence,
My work, my love, my time, my face
Gathered into one intense
Gesture of growing like a plant.
As slowly as the ripening fruit
Fertile, detached, and always spent,
Falls but does not exhaust the root,
So all the poem is, can give,
Grows in me to become the song,
Made so and rooted by love.
Now there is time and Time is young.
O, in this single hour I live
All of myself and do not move.
I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!

May Sarton

Wishing you a gentle and peaceful Winter Solstice. x

        

40 at 40! The album.

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