Archive for August, 2015
Talking to Louise Taylor
Louise Taylor writes fiction – short stories and novels, and travel articles and poetry. Her poetry will be part of 10 Days. He waits by the side gate, the one that’s beneath the head gardener’s dignity. A paper bag holding the remnants of sixpence’s-worth of monkey nuts is scrunched into his pocket and rests warmly against […]
Meeting Consuelo Simpson
Over the next weeks, I’m hoping to interview some of the writers and artists involved in 10 Days (if they’ll put up with me). Yesterday, I was lucky enough to visit artist, Consuelo Simpson, in her Hampshire studio. Consuelo is inspired by this quote from The Old Ways ‘A chalky mysticism established itself, a belief that it was […]
10 Days – Chalk
Since I’ve become part of the arts project 10 Days Chalk, I’ve been trying to write some stories on the theme of Chalk. On the basis that you get out what you put in, I decided to throw myself at it. Themes can be tricky, I find. I researched, obviously. I now know a hell […]
