My work today spans cultural development, SME sustainable business mentoring, poetry, art, photography, craftivism, increasing biodiversity (special mention to beavers here) and anything fun that I can contribute to.
Current projects include working at the New Weather Institute, home to Rapid Transition Alliance – a global network of people working toward the Paris Agreement goals and a just, sustainable future, and the Art of Rapid Transition and Plague Poets. I am a member of the extraordinary Hatch artist collective in Somerset, which holds exhibitions and other-worldly fashion show performances in a giant ex-battery chicken shed; and part of the place-based learning group, Blackdown Hills Artists and Makers. I am also a mentor to a young person locally, and involved in the creation of a new community cultural centre and library in an old town hall.
I enjoy working in collaboration from concept through to creation and love seeing something move from an idea into reality. I am lucky enough to have worked in catering, journalism, publishing, manufacturing, horticulture, advertising, sawmilling and retail.
Behavioural change, the long tail of colonial legacy, communities at the edge, using creativity to open minds in unexpected ways – all these I find intriguing. I am very lucky to have lived and worked in several different countries and types of community, and am deeply interested in the lives of people and non-human creatures everywhere.
Get in touch if you fancy a coffee break chat some time.