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A plan so cunning that I could pin a tail on it and call it a fox! (Yes, I love Blackadder! lol)   To make sense of The Rooted Age, I’m going to break it down into smaller pieces.   I’m going to begin with the why… the seed (did you see what I did there? lol) that sparked the whole thing.  Then I’m going to take you inside the world I’m building. And, because I am a tease, here is a wee snippet of what it's all about…  Something ancient stirs through rust and root. What once

I’m building a world!  A world that’s far bigger than me, and I think it’s going to take a bit of time to figure out exactly how it’s all going to work. As you know, I’ve spent the last few years trying to translate our big hopes, dreams, and messy feelings onto canvas.  Art is both a mirror and a door. It reflects who we are…   our stories, our contradictions, our resilience…   but it also opens onto what we might yet become. My new (and by new, I mean big and scary) projec

Some dreams live so close to the heart they’re almost impossible to say out loud. For me, that dream has been to be an artist. For years, I carried it quietly...painting in the margins, hesitant to claim it. I’ve realised one of the main reasons I’ve struggled is that I’ve never told anyone how committed I am to this dream. Mostly out of fear. But I’ve decided to overcome that fear and share my plans with you.  I’m all in. I’m finally ready to say it out loud...I am a full-ti