Things are moving...but where to?

Before I get started, if you're viewing this site on your phone - I'm really sorry about the layout. My sister sent me a screen shot of the home page and yeah, it looks like a dog's breakfast. Getting text, let alone images, to sit right is impossible. Wix does not allow you to do very much here so I'm sorta stuck with doing the best I can. Thank you for staying this long!

So, what's happening in this mad-as-a-box-of-frogs land, slithering into even more chaos ruled by colossal-stupidity-and-stubbornness? (insert shouty voice here) Yes, Brexit draws nearer and many businesses have no plans because they have no idea what to plan for. I'm looking at adding extra language versions to the site in the future; maybe French, German and Spanish because my potential reach (small though it is at present), may be much less if all us Brits end up in a financial mess. Please can we have some intelligent people in government? Just one would be a start...

However, things are afoot in Carshalton. The Corner Gallery has just closed down - nooo - but pending their move to new premises, are going to do lots of pop ups - yay. The Mine Gallery, a cooperative run place where I'd had a nod to submit work for selling when I moved here last May, finally has started the renovation after months of shuttered windows - thought it'd closed for good (no communication to anyone; so much for mailing lists). But lo, there were carpenters doing carpentry-ish looking things when I went past at the weekend. Woo hoo! Progress.

Now at the moment, I'm working on four pieces for submission to a pop up art fair - deadline 1st April. Planned to do slightly larger than usual pieces and...somehow they've all ended up just a bit bigger than usual. Here's a work so far pic below:

Dug out an old polymer clay piece and she's way more substantial.

Same template but different outcome. How annoying is that? Well, these ones can go on the website and I'll start again with another batch for the show and use PC gal for size reference. I don't mind too much. I've worked super fast on these so reckon I can manage another four or five in time for April. Gotta just get on with it and see. Anyhow, a deadline is a good thing.

This is art (and life). You plan stuff, sometimes get things a bit wrong, figure out why, and have another crack at it with more information to work with. And the more I do, the better I get and things always have to be about getting better and doing more and seeing what new ideas about 'more' come up as a result. Some might see that as a never ending slog. I see it as the thing to spur me on and keep me alive! When you've got nothing left you want to achieve...well, time to move on. Oh, which brings up a book I've just started (courtesy of Twitter-it has its uses); Bolder; Making the Most of our Longer Lives, by Carl Honore. I've never given a hoot about age but it's still a great read, and a reminder about how our lives, at any age, are as much about what we decide they will be, rather than what tradition/peers/media say they will be. Our choice. Choose well.