The days are fleeting, the night invades the light time and the world folds itself inwards away from the freeze of Winter. For me this is a time to edge slowly into the year. I create space to consider new work, and thoughts and feelings uncurl slowly beneath the ground, dreaming themselves into becoming.

My studio is often too cold to work in at this time of year. I know that if the pond outside starts to freeze then conditions inside will be perilously frosty, so on those days I work in the house on the laptop, under duvets and cats! Such is the gift of the internet age…

I’ve been working on a major series of artworks entitled FOLDING INWARD as those of you who follow me on social media will know. The series is on one level inspired by the chill of the Winter Landscape, but on a more personal level it is also about withdrawal and going within to find a more personal and profound wisdom than our busy world allows.

I’m spending this January writing about and progressing the ideas behind this work, it takes time and space to allow them to bubble, boil and then eventually form into a creature of sense. So I plan for the year ahead, update website pages, write, meditate and wait for the temperature in my studio to heat up enough to allow human movement!