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Before we go any further … I just wanted to let you know that this website is a work in progress. How like life!<\/em><\/p>\n The one that I had for years – since the very late 20th century – expired a while ago. I miss it and those heady days when we had to carve html code into wax tablets.<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway – I’m gradually putting this together to let you know who I am, show off a bit of what I’ve done before and convey what I am up for doing nowadays. It’s varied and a bit complex – like life!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, basically …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I relish the cross-fertilisation and variety of a portfolio career with many strands to the tapestry of work I’ve woven over the years.<\/p>\n The medium might be poetry, live sketching, facilitation or teaching and the setting could be classroom, conference, page, stage, rehearsal room or theatre tech booth.<\/p>\n\t <\/p>\n I like long words but even more I love making policy stuff sound simple.<\/p>\n “Your wonderful poem, This Is Bad Enough sums up so brilliantly the problems with patient information”<\/em> Hayley Clark, Librarian<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn 2006, I wrote a poem about the communication challenges cancer patients often face. It has been adopted by various organisations working in health literacy and in 2022 it was animated for NHS Scotland Education: Encouragement and gratitude are my rocket fuel.<\/p>\n “Joy is very central to who you are. You are a lifting, uplifting being” <\/em>Em Strang, Author<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I am pleased to be able to support people working in the performing arts through the wonderful Federation of Scottish Theatre\u00a0Step UP\u00a0mentoring programme<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Ooh! I’ve thought of something, let’s call ideation<\/em> ‘having ideas’ \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n “I see you as having boundless creativity, working with many different art forms but not being dependent on them”<\/em> Daniel Mandel, Creative Coach<\/p>\n “Your delight in being radiates from you. And the breadth of your work – of all the Authentic Artists, you’ve probably had more different kinds of projects than anyone else!”<\/em> Kath Burlinson, Founder of the Authentic Artist Collective<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Conceptual illustration and live scribing for a Policy Hack Day<\/a><\/strong> exploring the data challenges faced by artists, arts organisations, audiences and funders.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nMy Top Strengths<\/h2>\n
Strategy<\/h3>\n
\nThis is Bad Enough<\/a><\/strong>\n\nPositivity<\/h3>\n
Ideation<\/h3>\n
Connectedness<\/h3>\nJohn Muir said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” I enjoy exploring the links between things and ideas. My motto \u00a0Your life is a work of art\u00a0<\/i>is a provocation to remind myself of the connections.\n