A recent project for Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.
Currently I'm in a fierce battle. Do I obsess over my new wonderful full time charity job, and draw fulfilment from that or do I just... draw?

Exploring the woods in West Dunbartonshire on the Clyde with Colin for my Project, Bird Call. A weekly bird count leading to artistic and practical projects in the woodlands.

Sorry I just want to quote Tove Jansson for a bit.

“Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.”

“‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience...
How terrible.”

“Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.” 

“One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.”

“Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realize that they had forgotten” 

“you can't depend on people who just let things happen”

“Why do you smile all the time?" he said. "Because I am looking at you," she said”

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”