Riots of abundant juicy colour merging with mindful photography. Colour therapy for the soul.
This year I was Delighted to have shared my creativity publicly in Edinburgh at
Saltire Motorcycles 553 Gorgie Road, EH11 3XX Edinburgh Until the 30th June 2017
AND
The Planetary Healing Center, 228 Portebello High Street, Edinburgh Until the 24th June 2017
What's next? Who knows. The creativity continues...
Saltire Motorcycle Exhibition images
Planetary Healing Center Images
Background - I have been interested in photography ever since as a young girl I “counted elephants” with my Grandfather as images magically appeared from the mysterious alchemical solutions in his makeshift darkroom. When I got a camera I was always excited at the anticipation of waiting for films to be developed at the chemist to see what had been captured. Now with modern digital photography there is no longer the waiting in anticipation to see the images but the excitement, joy and wonder has remained.
Even though I have no formal training or background, I have been been approached over the years to take photographs at various events. I have had the opportunity to photograph various amateur dramatic shows for press and publicity material. I have photographed a local Jazz Big Band on numerous occasions, including the Cork Jazz Festival. I was asked to photograph the Taste of Scotland show at the Prestonfield house hotel, a singer at the Churchill Theater and the National Operatic and Dramatic Association’s Ball and Conference in Peebles. I was asked at late notice to cover a Christening when the photographer pulled out and was asked to take unofficial wedding photographs on a number of occasions and has also taken photographs for websites for friends. I had a number of my iphone images used on a Guardian Blog on the subject and also had a couple of images selected for a book entitled ‘My Scotland’ with one of my images used as the cover. I have had nearly 400,000 views of her images on Flickr.
Although I will turn my hand to whatever is presented, I am particularly interested in Nature photography. I enjoy connecting with the landscape and using it to deepen into a mindful meditation practice. This has been particularly potent over the last year as I have used nature, walking, meditation and photography as healing tools through symptoms of mental health, particularly anxiety and depression following a long-term relationship breakdown and awareness of long-term abuse in the workplace.
After my life exploded, so much fell away – my partner, friends, people I saw as family, my job, colleagues, places, travel, commitments, possessions, hobbies, interests, money, thoughts…. Space opened everywhere.
For me, the greatest healers are presence, time and space and I noticed that in our modern fast paced frenetic world, we rarely slow down to allow any healing to unfold at a deep core level and merely cover superficial wounds with a sticking plaster to get by and make do.
By connecting with meditation, nature and photography, healing has unfolded and peace has been possible. The word that has shown up has been “Sarosa”. In the opening space, there has been a rich experience of Freedom. In the context of creativity, there has been freedom to let rules fall, let labels fall, let expectations fall, let thoughts and ideas of how things should be or look fall. There has been freedom to create and express whatever is going on in the moment without judgment or concern for approval or praise. There is no attachment to what is emerging, no defined style, just an unfolding of her own unique flavor upon the world.
What has emerged has been a cathartic release of creativity, not just in visual art through various media but also through movement, writing, blogging and creative therapeutic sound as I relearn how to live without abuse and in this world that I am creating.
My photography has recently taken on a playful twist as I have explored new and different ways to see the world. I am very interested in the use of colour and also enjoy intuitively changing images to something new and unexpected as can be seen with the abstract images of motorbikes.
This year was the very first time I have has shown anything publicly in this way. My aim was also to share my own experience of art as a therapy through my own healing journey. Also to encourage people to remember that Absolutely Everyone is an artist, no matter what your mind tells you. Everyone can create their life their way and peace, freedom, joy, love, fun…. Are all possible and accessible.
SHOP to come once I work out technical how to!!!!!!