This blog post for July comes as I am engaged in one of my favourite activities of the year: watching the tennis from Wimbledon! With my MFA show behind me, I have returned over recent weeks to the studio to catch up on some icon painting, while at the same time trying to be gentle with myself after all that the last couple of years have held. I was stopped in my tracks this morning by a post that came into my social media newsfeed... I needed to read that. Sometimes, we need others to remind...

My apologies for the absence of a blog post on June 5, when it would normally have appeared. At that time, I was deep into preparations for the installation of my degree show, the culmination of two years' study at Oxford Brookes for a Masters in Fine Art and, more significantly, one year's art practice. That is, an art practice that spanned from the beginning of the academic year in September to the opening of the show on 12 June 2026 - which gave us the title for the show... With the show...

Personal reflection on being both artist and iconographer