It’s that time of year again when the long winter and short dark days thankfully begin to get brighter, and our thoughts turn towards what we want for our lives and our art. I have come to realise that rather than fighting to create in the low months of winter it is a better time to plan a fresh start for 2023.

I’ve had so many good ideas rolling around in my head lately that I decided to take the time this year to make some space, both physically and mentally, for realising these dreams and encouraging those creative promises to come true. I want to be able to make the most of the long summer days ahead, bringing with it that fabulous daylight which floods my Glasgow studio and makes a fabulous environment for making paintings.  I also look forward to being able to invite actual live people into the space for some mentoring and mini-workshops, which I’ve been intending to organise for quite a while! I am naturally a bit of a hoarder (my excuse is that anything can be used for artistic inspiration…) and, until my recent early spring clean, there really hasn’t been enough space in my studio for me to work comfortably alone. let alone with other people. However, during the dark days of winter I have been busy.