writings
This website is my on line sketchbook and journal; a way of presenting my ideas to the public and recording my processes. Especially in these digital times it feels more important to go to book shops, museums and walk in the woods. I love digging and searching in ideas, in history, in the esoteric; scratching the surface, trying to get beyond the obvious. It’s probably one of my favourite places to dwell, searching for the 'thin places’ between the sacred and profane, or delving into the roots of our past.
Finding patterns and connections has led over the years to an inquisitiveness towards indigenous teachings from around the world; teachings that help me to perceive differently. How to listen to the earth, how to read the clues of our ancestors. Ancient teachings that help me to re-evaluate what I understand. In particular awakening a thirst for the story of this land that I am from, and live in and walk upon. Developing a fascination into the folklore of these isles.
liminal - Imbolc & Brigid
I love thinking about the liminal, the space in the peripheral of perception, the point where ‘the veil is thin’. As I recently read about Brigid in ‘Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul’ by John Philip Newell, about how she represents the threshold, the liminal space, I felt a tug to write something about her and the ‘threshold.’