Returning to Art full-time

a new start

Perhaps it is misleading to say that this is a new start, since I have never actually stopped making art in some way or other, but it would be correct to say that it has been quite some time since art was my main endeavour and primary source of income.

I finished working in Primary education as a higher level teaching assistant at the end of the summer term in July 2024. I have been working up to this for 2-3 years, working on creating a body of new work and spending quite a lot of my spare time on my art practice. In the end, the balance went past the tipping point and art landed with a glorious thud, in the end there was no choice: art won.

I would still like to use my experience of teaching children, including art club and art lessons with both adults and children at some point. But right now, I’m blazing through the stuff that’s been in my head and in my heart for a long time and which, in the end, was impossible to hold back.

I have booked a lot of fairs and markets on the run up to Christmas (info in the events section) and I am working hard on making things for those, getting my online art world into a coherent whole and generally going through everything! After that is done and dusted, I will be making my plans for the new year which I hope will include commissions, maybe collaborations, workshops on sketchbook journalling and hopefully more things that I haven’t even dreamed of!

There is one thing that I would like to know though, and it’s this: Where does all the time go? It goes so quickly. I am just coming to terms with this and getting used to the fact that I can only get so much done in a day though I have a feeling I will always be trying to fit in just that little bit more….