Reflections

I had been told about a tree on the hill near the castle in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubjliana. My teacher , Marko Pogacnik had identified this tree as connecting with a  presence of...

In Norse mythology an important image is of Yggsdrasil- The World Tree- at the centre of nine Kingdoms. There is the squirrel rushing up and down the drunk hurling insults at the the dragon...

I arrived in Spain. I was following my dream to learn copper etching. I would study every day for five days with a Danish printmaker in her studio Mijas. I was met at the...

Dendrites. Synapses. Axons…These are ways to describe different attributes of nerves. As a child I looked at hundreds of projected slide images of these while my father- a neuroscientist “practiced” some of his lectures...

I returned a year later to both the Pan tree and it’s acacia guardian tree . I began with the “attendant” or guardian tree and a rich and beautiful image came through that encounter-...

To be honest, I can’t remember the first thought, the moment I noticed the impulse or felt the call to research. I do remember that one beautiful late summer day in 2011. I had...

The above three drawings were done June 12 2105. I had a group for a small workshop with these Chestnut trees. Tree (A) and Tree ( B) I had worked with the year before....

I returned to this willow tree May 2015. Sitting with a friend and author we spoke about Shakespeare’s the Tempest. Freeing Ariel, a spirit trapped in a tree! And also she introduced me to...

This park, Kennington, has a long and fascinating history.