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Beyond words

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I've spent a week writing  my new Artists Statement.  Here's the background. It's been hard because I've always felt art is beyond words. I  have themes and colors which change over the years.  The driving energy which comes into each drawing arrives of its own accord.  I just have to 'clear a space' (remove all distractions) and allow it to flow. My hope is you'll find something of your own fascinating life story in my drawings and paintings. Something uplifting. Something revealing.  Something healing. How did it all start? Many teachers say that what we loved to do as a child colors almost everything in later life. And if we ignore these first passions, well...burnout  depression and serious disappointment can take root. I started drawing aged three, and have hardly stopped ever since. In the first small 'autobiographical' wax crayon drawings, I’m a smiling little nurse in a Scottish hospital  ward, surrounded by sick ladies glue