My mate Sue’s Private View

Its been a long road with my good friend, artist Sue Bartlett. She is of ‘mature years’ and yet has clearly always had a talent for artistic expression. She is also one of the most vibrant, optimistic and ‘present’ people I know – which it has to be said is unusual for an artist. This [...]

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Art & Medicine

What I love about art is the way it stretches thought beyond the obvious. I am well aware of my Jungian preference for Intuition in the way I deal with information – and modern art is an ideal medium to spark off the completely random tangential thinking which so appeals to my psychological nuances.
I have [...]

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Creative Block… at Lughnasadh?

I know enough artists and writers to understand the suffering of creative block. In the madness of the current age, when we feel compelled to be continually and consistently productive, there is a disconnect from the natural flow of things.
It is entirely natural to experience the fallow time, and to need to rest, re-stock and [...]

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Poetry – words & sounds?

I have heard a few performance poets lately and am unsure how I feel about hearing, rather than seeing, poems. It’s not that I don’t enjoy listening, I do, enormously, but there is a subtle change in my relationship with the poem which has stimulated a puzzled interest in me.
It’s the same with paintings. We [...]

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We live the life we choose

Each morning I look at the beautiful print I have on the wall in my bedroom – it was painted by a wonderful, sensitive and spiritually focussed American artist called Melissa Harris, and depicts a woman in a green robe with a red lining (like my own ritual garment) standing by a Cornish windbush – [...]

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