It has been far too gorgeous with my little world being awash with the soft pinks and whites of blossom trees. I t is fair to say that I have been considerably slack with my website of late and for this I do apologise but I have somewhat preoccupied with other changes in my life. No excuse, I know.

So, what have I been up to exactly? Well, most importantly, I have started doing a bit of teaching and I am thoroughly enjoying it.  I can imagine myself in 15 years time having a lovely little studio from which I run fab art workshops for kiddie-winkles where they can be as creative and crazy and wacky as they like.  There was infact a very interesting article on the BBC News website recently which discussed the need for art education in primary schools to be more creative to appeal to more to boys.  I was delighted to see that Children’s minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry said: “Learning to think creatively and express your ideas and imagination are, in fact, amongst the most important skills to learn and are indeed needed throughout adult life.” Here here!

Ooo, and lastly, I recently had my book cover design for Trentham Books re-printed for anther of their publications in the series:

Last year I was asked if I was at all interested in helping to design the cover to an academic book for Trentham Books. The only information I was given was the title and a sentence which summed up the ‘feel’ of the publication. I came up with this abstract design in which I wanted to allude to silent power battles, the ways and means of speaking out and the strength that can be found in doing so. As this was part of a series of publications, I wanted to keep with the design format of the previous ones yet make a clear departure from it thus giving the cover greater impact.