Daily Archives: June 19, 2015

Artist’s Statement ….Part Two

I’m setting aside tales of the trip, random thought about my Fitbit and sunset pictures to share a profoundly important blog post from someone I just discovered. As I read it I found myself nodding and then ducking my head in shame. These thoughts encompass every page in my life. You’ll see what I mean.

Johanna Flanagan

The Pale Rook

So remember that thing I applied for?

My application was successful.  I was selected to take part in a project at Scotland’s Craft Town,  the wonderful West Kilbride.   I’ve been a massive fan of the Craft Town since I first found out about it a few years ago, so I’m massively chuffed to be a part of it.  The project I’m involved in takes selected craft makers based in Scotland, at various stages of their careers and gives them specialist business mentoring and studio space for six months.   For the first time in over a decade I am being mentored rather than mentoring others, which has been quite a shock to the system.

The first meeting of the participants, organisers and business mentors involved an exercise where we had to think of things that limited our business or things that we were worried about and then we had to…

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