This is a long way of inviting you to explore what God might say to you if you developed the capacity to listen.

Husband Ross and I are about to celebrate 28 years of marriage.  We were living in opposite countries to our birth (NZ and UK), having...

I love television’s Grand Designs.  New Zealand has its own and this week I found myself watching construction of a contemporary, four...

(Please note that free spots have now been filled.) Making the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius is normally quite an investment. That...

The day the London Stock Exchange's rules changed on 27 October 1986 was dubbed "Big Bang" because of the increase in market activity...

I've felt the need for a larger canvas for some time. This may be cheating, but the creativity of my last nine months has been...

It's been a busy month with one painting in the finals of the Tasman Art Awards and another in the Suter Nelson Art Society Spring Show,...

How to decide direction once apprenticeship is done and technical challenges are no longer the main focus of painting? Is it to...

New Zealand has finally joined the rest of the world and I am locked down sketching away, gazing at my mountains, but preparing a...

Helping people find their purpose was the privilege in my career as a coach. So I shouldn't be astonished to find myself newly resident...

I thought it was time I let you know what I’m actually doing. My new address is a lovely warm cottage with a guest room that has a view...

(scroll down for the film! you don't have to read the guff.) Survivor guilt is alive in 2021 for those of us in New Zealand, while the...

I'm assured that the more I attend to my painting, the more neural pathways I am creating in my "paint centre". It's not just experience....

I am painting in the gallery all next week and would dearly love you to come and sit for me. You can book in by emailing...

A few months ago, I genuinely had no need to show my work. "I am happy just painting," I said. Then, in response to Sprout Arts (London...

This is a post I wish I was reading rather than writing! Maybe it should be titled "Attempt to get a decent brush stroke technique". ...