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Barenaked studio Kates ba*****ed studio life drawing classes are a fun intimate way to celebrate your hens party, bir

I was thinking this afternoon about girlhood. How beautiful, how vibrant and buzzing with the excitement of Spring. It’s...
19/08/2026

I was thinking this afternoon about girlhood.
How beautiful, how vibrant and buzzing with the excitement of Spring. It’s like jasmine, it’s doing its own thing, climbing the fence, she needs nothing to grow and to dazzle filling the air with her perfume but the rays of late winter sun.
It breaks my heart to see young girls’ energy sapped by our patriarchal culture.
Sexualised, demeaned and brushed aside in favour of young boys and men’s reputations.
I’m enraged, and if you’re an adult you should be too.
Girls are magic and women are the only hope this world has.
If you are a man reading this, your job is to keep watch, to safeguard and protect what is good and whole so that girls and women can just be.

18/06/2026

This is what I do.
I work with sick kids in hospital, people living on the broad and beautiful spectrum and people who have intellectual developmental delays.
Every one of them have gifts and lessons for me.
It’s art and creativity as therapy.
It’s human expression, it’s mindful focus and the joy of being in a state of flow.
I really feel that I’ve found my purpose and it’s taken courage, which I have in spades, to keep doing it.
Artistic expression is for everybody!
If we don’t use our imagination in creative play, as they say, we lose it. If we have no faculty to imagine something other than our own reality, what hope do we have as people for empathy? For hope and dreaming?
There are ways for us all to connect as a community, we just have to believe it.
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The Queen of Spades, she had a secret garden. She only gave the key to the one she deemed worthy, the one she chose abov...
27/05/2026

The Queen of Spades, she had a secret garden.
She only gave the key to the one she deemed worthy, the one she chose above all others.
He was careless though, and misplaced the key, he didn’t realise what a precious gift he had been given and how lucky it was the she had trusted him with it.

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When I need to create, but have limited capacity, time, space, materials, mindset etc.I just make something tiny, someth...
25/05/2026

When I need to create, but have limited capacity, time, space, materials, mindset etc.
I just make something tiny, something that means something to me. And there you have it, desire sated.
Without giving it all away, it’s the King and Queen of Hearts.
What do you see?
What do you think it means?
Take from them what you will, but it’s pieces of my heart all out there in the world.

Last month, up north at a place called Treachery I found a huge moth, alive and fluttering on the beach. It was heavy in...
11/05/2026

Last month, up north at a place called Treachery I found a huge moth, alive and fluttering on the beach. It was heavy in my hands. It felt significant somehow, we had never seen anything like it.
In ancient irish mythology moths are said to symbolise the curtain between this life, and the otherworld. The thin veil that separates the living and the dead. They hold great spiritual meaning. I wondered if it was an ominous sign?
It turns out that it was a harbinger of change, brought to me on an ominous breeze, perhaps even a tempest.
My belief is that sometimes life brings you to your knees and you have to make a choice, a decision that you need to make, to go in one direction or make a hard right turn and stick to that road, even if it looks rocky and potholed.
I think the bumps, crashes and wrong turns are all part of this messy ride that being human entails.
So, thank you Mustard Ghost Moth, you magnificent creature for coming along and turning my heart into broken shells that I am now putting together painstakingly.

Happy Mothers Day!This is me and my beautiful mother. How grateful I am that my soul came into this world through this a...
10/05/2026

Happy Mothers Day!
This is me and my beautiful mother. How grateful I am that my soul came into this world through this amazing woman. She’s raised a tribe, found the heart of a great man and wrangled (still) litters of grandchildren.
Saint Jude is really a goddess in a nurses uniform.
My mother is a reminder that we must return to the Matriarchy, the deep wisdom, care, generosity, protective ferocity, and kindness of the earth and the source of all love.
A deep longing resides in us all, to come back to what created us all. I adore you mum, a superhero for us all.

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I’ve always been good with words, I can write how I speak, I can articulate my thoughts, I can feel what someone else wa...
19/04/2026

I’ve always been good with words, I can write how I speak, I can articulate my thoughts, I can feel what someone else wants to say, but can’t.
In saying that, sometimes my words don’t or won’t give enough gravity or substance to what I feel.
So I draw my heart, I paint the things that words on their own won’t illustrate.
For me, it’s the only way.
How grateful I am for this gift.

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