Category Archives: Social media

Sticks and stones will break your bones…


We all know the saying, and it’s got to be one of the most untrue statements we could ever be told. When I was fourteen years old, at that painfully awkward age when self image and self confidence were confusing … Continue reading

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Crazy minds, Zentangles and Swirly People.


Every time we have gone away I’ve taken my pens and Prismacolour pencils with me and a drawing pad with the best of intentions of having time to just sit and unwind and do some Zentangle type drawings.  Has this … Continue reading

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Wall in progress.


I have to say what is in my heart.   – The scariest thing in the world right now is not Trump, or Madonna’s threats to blow things up, or any individual woman, or man behaving badly- it’s division. A wall … Continue reading

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How my “vagina” caused a furore on the internet.


As an emerging artist, dabbling around in all forms of media and styles. I particularly like abstract art.   I like it because it’s a bit like cloud watching….the viewer can interpret it in any way it wishes to. So … Continue reading

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Becoming the machine…


Image courtesy of Pixabay. Screens in the form of phones, ipads, tablets, laptops have become such an integral part of society and so very quickly. As a photographer and avid people watcher I have to say that people are becoming … Continue reading

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True humanity.


True humanity is quiet. The essence of it does not receive or even need social media, reporters or worldwide coverage because it is simply there. Spontaneous and selfless. Often it is intimate. Something shared between two people. (Or man and … Continue reading

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Veto the LIKE button – for a day!


The other day my seventeen year old daughter said to me that a friend of hers who had posted a video on youtube said to her. ‘Why didn’t you LIKE my video?” My daughter replied… “I TOLD you I liked … Continue reading

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Beautiful Dancing Queen.


The other day someone posted this video on facebook of a woman dancing, to herself, for herself at a bus stop. As I watched it, I couldn’t help but smile for the woman. She looked like she was so happy … Continue reading

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