Journal page inspired by doing the pots. There’s a reason sinks are put by windows, they allow for the distraction of watching, as a...

I've been thinking a bit differently about my garden in the light of the red-hot temperatures we're living with at the minute. I always...

Over the last few weeks I've been inspired by two people reading poetry. The first was Harriet Tarlo when we did Beach of Dreams...

Pupils work based around the idea of islands and communication. Tuesday 16 June I was in Laceby Acres Primary Academy talking about the...

Picturing the marshy scene in early Grimsby. Amid the bogs. The swamps. The marshes. Is where the rain comes filtered through Wolds'...

Toothill in Grimsby was one of many hills that were used as look-out points. Going into Laceby Acres school today to talk about the Seven...

On Friday I took part in a careers event, setting up a colour and chat table. I've designed more than a hundred colouring sheets over the...

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

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...

Saltfleet haven. As part of my We Are Marshy Folk project I visited Saltfleet Haven, Rimac and Anderby Creek, creating one of my collage...

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...

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...

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...

At the end of 2024 thanks to some Arts Council funding I trained as an ARTiculate deliverer with the British Association of Art...

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...

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...

Community, connection, creativity, calm Last year I received Arts Council England funding, and one of the outcomes of the work I did was...

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...

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...

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...