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The change curve

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” Frederick Nietzsche This journal spread is all about the change curve. This year has seen a big change for me. I am no longer taking...

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The Guest House

  This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they...

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On Flourishing

A quick flick through my Instagram feed this morning revealed a host of posts dedicated to world Mental Health Day*, as designated by the Mental Health Foundation. The glorious, warm, supportive...

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Welcome all that arises; a Creativity First Aid Kit

“Dear Maz. I know creativity is my therapy and outlet for all manner of negative feelings, but I can’t seem to muster up the desire to actually create. If you can help kick my creative arse, I’d be...

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A bit of process…

Whilst purging my phone of a million pictures yesterday I came across a series I’d taken as I worked on a page, with a view to posting a ‘birth of a journal page‘ post, or a ‘how I did this‘. These...

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November is Art Every Day Month

For a few years now I’ve been participating in Art Every Day Month, which is ably and creatively hosted by Leah Piken Kolidas at Creative Every Day. It’s a challenge to us creative types to enjoy being...

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The Form of the Formless

The form of the formless the image of the imageless… Stand before it and there is no beginning Follow it and there is no end. I don’t think Lao-Tzu wrote this specifically in regard to my art journal...

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The Journey

“The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own”. Mary Oliver I read this poem around the same time as I was working on this...

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The Wandering Isles

‘… and anon they spied land in the distance; islands, they were, the sea dotted with them. The Captain gave answer- for those islands that you see are not firm land- they shift about hither and thither...

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Series and Studies

Just lately I’ve been trying to upscale my paintings from art journal pages to larger canvases- this is my current challenge- I might say, obsession. And discovery no.1 is that it’s not just painting...

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