CONTEMPORARY 2000 - 2015

I took early retirement from teaching allowing. Walter and I to travel in Asia, Mexico, and Europe. In 2005 we bought a campervan which was to change everything in the way that I did my art. In cities, I visited museums and art galleries. Camping brought us into the heart of ancient and sacred spaces, off the beaten track and thanks to our GPS to hamlets little changed from the Middle Ages. 

In 2007 many things were different. The first of our seven grandchildren was born, a source of great joy. A renewed motivation to build on inspiration from the 60’s and a heightened sense of responsibility for the future of our world, became my preoccupation. 

Thanks to the solitude afforded by our campervan trips - I returned to a long-standing interest in all things spiritual, Literature and Poetry. I derived creative insights from wonderfully inspirational male and female writers on my Kindle. Presentations and discussions between enlightened scientists and people of faith, later on social media platforms. I struggle with the language of science and physics, but I grasped enough to be passionate about their mutual overlap, around matters of consciousness. 

Knowing that their joint energies were vital to the regeneration of our ailing planet, kept me inspired. My research was to culminate in my first exhibition in 2018, THE HEART OF THE MATTER; to be later exhibited as CLIMATE OF CHANGE, 2019; then online, 2020 RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH. I returned from New York on February 28th 2020 to awaken in March to a changed Universe. During Covid, I hunkered down and wrote poetry and enjoyed sharing our house with our daughter, husband and 3 grandchildren - the youngest was 4 and they shone a light in our lives during lock down.