i draw from the model from September to June approximately 6 hours a week.  It is my work as an artist.  It keeps me practicing and i have a pile of newsprint that is close to 2ft high.  i don’t think too much while it is happening, drawing gets me to that place where i become very present and thinking stops.  So i am often surprised the following week, when with fresh eyes, i see - really see - what i did.  i love this aspect of creating when the work created  is actually a surprise to yourself.

September has come and gone and it is the first in 4 years where it has not been dictated by the rhythms of school.  i am an artist out on her own learning to dictate my own rhythms.  Trying to structure the unstructured.  Two of my drawing groups resumed getting me out of the house and among other artists for support.  But most of the work happens in isolation and submissions go out into what feels like the ether - many come back rejected.  This is ok - each one gives me more practice, confidence and helps me to revisit with a fresh eye what i am working towards.

It feels like a long time since i first started back at school in 2013 in the hopes that 4 years would help to focus my art practice and it seems to have done the opposite!  This, however, is not a bad thing and perhaps the 4 years were to teach me to learn to accept the diversity that is inherent in the way I practice art (and life for that matter).