Another year of disruption and acute distress for our world in so many ways. I look to this new year for a fresh start in my own world and a return to work and themes.
I've spent a lot of the year outside of the studio, due to family obligations...
...obligations I entered into voluntarily and with deep love. We thought the remote schooling process would be over in June, at the end of the school year,
and it was, but a resurgence of Covid meant I was needed again this school year, with a different and greater time commitment.
My passion to make sure our new old home was ready for us, was beautiful, was a true reflection of who we are, has grabbed me with tsunami-like energy and has taken most of the time I had left over from child responsibilities.
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My house and my garden (see preceding post) were my major artworks for the year.
But in these days after Christmas, I've cleaned and reorganized my studio. It and I are ready. I have several different series going on and I don't know where I'll go with them,
but I'll find out. I also want to make another 12' long concertina book of the second year of my garden and I wouldn't mind making more portraits of the kind I did of the original owners of our 1860s house:
I continue with my red clay painting studies:
I have poured every single thing I have this year into family, house, garden, and regaining of health.
It's time to pour every single thing I have into my work. Begin again. There's no end to the beginnings.
Let us join together in a fervent wish for the health of our planet, its people, ourselves and our loved ones, and for a world in which virtue and truth are once more the standards we strive to uphold.
Happy 2022.
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