Welcome To My Studio Blog!
Walking Hadrian’s Wall in August 2024
Here I am, posing with a tiny bit of Hadrian’s wall behind me. I walked 84 miles from Newcastle to Bowness-on-Solway with a wonderful adventuring friend. It was an incredible experience!
It was an inspiring walk, and now to share about my art studio and my new blog adventure!
Welcome to my online art studio, vastly more modern than my physical art studio! I live in a medieval building in the middle of a tiny Hertfordshire village called Wheathampstead, and my art studio is a tiny, low-ceilinged room sandwiched between my kitchen and my bedroom with a very tiny window that looks out onto a graveyard. It’s quirky, and I love it. Out of all the art studios I’ve had over the last twenty-five years, this one is the best so far!
I have a wooden desk, a wonky wooden chair, an overly stuffed bookcase, a wheelie cabinet that supports a printer and is packed to bursting with my artwork, various drawing devices and tablets, as well as a towering set of Kallax’s from IKEA that had to be propped up by bits of wood because the floor is so uneven and which is stuffed with every type of art material you can imagine. My studio is its own art supply centre, strange miniature museum and book collection. It’s tidy and cramped, yet wonderful because everything and anything can happen here.
I love a lazy Saturday morning sitting at my desk with the window open and the church bells declaring a wedding while I create and play with materials and imagination - that is my happy place! I don’t always have time for this wonderful creative moment as I’ve recently had so many things to fill my calendar that the moments at my desk have been fleeting. I’ve recently walked the entirety of Hadrian’s wall with a wonderful friend, and I seem to be eyebrow-deep in finalising my level 5 qualifications that need to be completed to act on the therapeutic art practitioner training I’ve been immersed in this year. I’m now quite happily immersed in Reiki training, which I feel will impact my teaching and healing journey.
Oh, I’m also recovering from having survived breast cancer too. Life is full, and though there have been such incredibly sad and challenging parts of the last few years, I feel so grateful to have had a full life! It is a good life, to be sure!
It’s late at night as I write this, so I won’t keep going now, but I will set a place in my calendar to add to my blog three times a week about all my creative activities in my very quirky art studio. Maybe this will be where I track what I’m doing, or perhaps it will be where others might find useful discoveries from my words.
Whatever happens, here’s to a positive, happy, and nourishing art writing journey full of discoveries, triumphs, calamities, photos, and just being me.
