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Amid the bogs...
The marshes and mounds of Grimsby. Artwork for a school workshop talking about Seven Hills of Grimsby*. I will read this to the students...

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Jun 16, 20251 min read
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Seeing bridges, not gaps
Somebody still loves us, despite how tatty our fur is. On Friday, wending my way from Freeman Street to home, on my bike. I felt an...

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Jun 16, 20251 min read
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Exploring the Lincolnshire coast
Saltfleet haven. As part of my We Are Marshy Folk project I visited Saltfleet Haven, Rimac and Anderby Creek, creating one of my collage...

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Jun 16, 20251 min read
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We are marshy folk
In May 2025 I was awarded a large project grant by @createNEL for me to do some reserach,artwork and public engagement around the theme...

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Jun 16, 20251 min read
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Relighting my candle
A few weeks ago, my candle was very dim. I ended up being very poorly and I'm still having to take it easy so I get properly better. But...

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Mar 11, 20251 min read
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Opening up a space in my brain
I've known for a while now that my brain feels like an overstuffed shopping bag, bursting at the seams and with a bottom that's...

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Feb 26, 20251 min read
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ARTiculate training
At the end of 2024 thanks to some Arts Council funding I trained as an ARTiculate deliverer with the British Association of Art...

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Jan 29, 20251 min read
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Back to the start
This is the first time this journal has had a public viewing. But I thought it would be useful to share, as spend a lot of time in...

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Jan 27, 20252 min read
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Beacons of light...
I woke up this morning reading the news and feeling a bit like, to misquote Churchill, that the lights are starting to go out. And then I...

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Jan 21, 20251 min read
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What the aim is....
Community, connection, creativity, calm Last year I received Arts Council England funding, and one of the outcomes of the work I did was...

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Jan 21, 20251 min read
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The Anatomy of Anxiety
Little book of C words. This little leather-bound book is the culmination of a year's work. I came to the realisation that I could let my...

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Jan 14, 20251 min read
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Brain collapses
In the run up to Christmas I'd had too many of these brain collapses. They aren't panic attacks, more anxiety attacks. But they are...

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Jan 14, 20251 min read
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The waters of birth...
I remember when my own waters broke 12 years ago, just before my son made his middle-of-the-night arrival in the world. It felt like a...

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Dec 9, 20241 min read
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Life needs more commas...
My brain seems to run like a flow of words that never stops for breath. There are no commas, no full stops. It goes on and on. Breathless...

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Nov 29, 20241 min read
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Swimming against the tide...
"The world we believe in becomes the world we live in." Gabor Mate. I have been swimming too long in toxic waters and they have polluted...

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Nov 21, 20241 min read
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Buzzy head...
I can be consumed by a swarm of negative thoughts buzzing around my head. #artandanxiety #mentalhealthjourney #artastherapy

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Nov 18, 20241 min read
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Of bubbles a boundaries
I do find the way therapy and counselling speak to be a bit cringey and overused in places, but as boundaries is a good way to describe...

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Nov 15, 20242 min read
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Looking for patterns...
There are days when I feel lost in a maze of circular thinking, the noise, the patterns, overwhelms. Humans are suppposed to find...

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Nov 12, 20241 min read
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Bouncing bunny brain
My thoughts behav like overeager bunnies tumbling over themselves in their eagerness to get my attention. It's exhausting. #dycp...

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Nov 11, 20241 min read
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My little book of C words...
I've been mulling over an idea for a self-help (for me) book of c words that I can turn to when my anxiety is taking over my brain. This...

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Nov 5, 20241 min read
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