We found the leaves pressed between two pieces of kitchen roll inside a book that I left here in NZ in October 2020. I have no memory of their ...

I spent a long coffee break going through my turquoise notebook – that’s the one where I write notes about my reading. In my mind that day was how to ...

This contingent emergence of form and colour fascinates me. I prepare the surface, allow the conditions, then the ink does its thing. I can adjust the ...

“In what ways do we belong to the world?” This question lies at the core of the work of John Berger, according to Nikos Papastergiadis in an essay ...

Abstract painter Willem de Kooning, talking about his practice:Each new glimpse is determined by many,Many glimpses before.It's this glimpse which ...

One way I respond to her statements about what holds back women is to feel how they apply to my own art practice/life, then turn them around, and affirm ...

Layering has long been important in my painting process. It’s a simple notion: on day one, I paint the first layer; on day 2, I paint on top of the first ...

For years, I engaged in rational, analytic study of metaphor and empathy in dialogue. Despite my best academic intentions, the imagination resisted being ...

From Chapter 14 The Independent Woman, I extracted statements that Simone de Beauvoir makes about women artists and writers, in particular and in ...

Whether or not intuition can be described (only) as “instincts…honed through use and experience”, it’s the next sentence that struck me:you reach a point ...