Artist-Teacher
Artist-Teacher
The Quest for Authenticity In 2023, I began my master’s dissertation with the goal of discovering my authentic self through art. As a neurodivergent artist, much of my life had been spent masking, navigating a fragmented sense of identity. Jungian psychology offered a way to …
My first real encounter with Alchemy was last October, when I was searching for symbols and metaphors that resonated with me for my own art-making practice. I found it to be hugely complex and put it aside until stumbling upon it once again through my …
My process of making a painting is rarely the same. Often, my work starts off as little more than a response to something that captures my attention at that time. This can be a feeling, an object, a place, or an experience. I trust my …
I am sharing, or perhaps merely recording, a moment of revelation, one of those wonderful experiences when everything becomes clear. This time it is not through making art, but through my wider reading. I have read a significant amount from and about Carl Jung, and …
I started using collage to support my art-making process some time ago. I found that drawing with scissors helped me to work more intuitively. Cutting shapes and placing them freely on paper before adding line has been revolutionary for me. Whenever I find myself over-thinking, …
The posts here give a taste of my journey as an artist-teacher since starting my MA Ed (Artist Teacher Practice) in 2021. My art-making process, discovery of self, and pedagogical approach inform and inspire each other. They are both individual and collective, united in their interweaving, interconnectedness, and interdependence.