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'A Year in Layers' My year long journey through art, memory and renewal continues with December. The year closes like a circle, and with it comes both endings and renewal. The light lowers, the days are shorter, and the world seems to breathe more slowly. Colours deepen and quieten to indigo skies, softened greys and moonlit blues. There is a natural pull inwards, both in nature and within ourselves. For those of us who create, this time of year asks us not to produce more,

'A Year in Layers' My year long journey through art, memory and renewal continues with November. Loss is not loud. It arrives like November fog, heavy and quiet, pressing in around the edges. It softens the outlines of the things we once saw clearly, blurring what is behind and what is ahead. My work in this season becomes more muted, more still, as if to honour the silence itself. The kind of silence that doesn't demand attention, but settles like a slow exhale. November f

Darkness is not empty, it is full of richness, texture and truth. In shadow we see contrast, and in contrast we find depth. I paint with darkness as much as with light. 'A Year in Layers' My 'A Year in Layers' series continues with October, bringing a deepening. The days shorten, the air cools, and the shadows stretch longer across the ground. I notice how darkness creeps in earlier each evening, not as something to fear but as something to lean into. There is richness in sha

Welcome to my blog ‘The Pause’.  An invitation to join me on a journey through my art, our inner life, nature and her seasons, and the thread that runs through all of them. My blog will be a series of reflections, written month by month, following the cycles of the seasons. ‘A Year in Layers’ will take us on a seasonal journey through art, memory, and renewal. It will follow what I am working on in my art and the threads that run through it. Things such as seasonal rhythms, t