Raw Light: Holistic Well-being

07/08/2025

So happy to be back in the studio after a bit of a hiatus - doors open, birdsong and breeze floating in through the open doors. Idyllic

02/08/2025

Birthday promotion - Tuesday and Thursday yoga classes are restarting next week and Because I love birthdays and it is my birthday month, 10% off individual or block bookings 😊 message or text for your place

11/06/2025

Final intervention for my thesis, casting the bay - too hot but the plaster dried very quickly and I am looking forward to it baking right side up this afternoon before brushing off the sand and seaweed to see what we have

18/10/2024

I forgot to take pictures during, but a pre opening shot. So many thanks are needed, not least to Fabiana and Carlo for coming from Italy to support me and photograph the exhibition - I am humbled by your friendship and stunned by your talent.

15/10/2024

Another stupid o'clock start but what a prize at the end... The great hall, Homerton College, Cambridge where I will be installing for the next couple of days before Thursday's private view 😁

26/09/2024

It's taken its time, but I am polishing the last poem for the exhibition catalogue next month. So grateful to everyone who has contributed their thoughts and glimmers, their music and heart 🥰 (and hope to see you in Cambridge 17-20 at the Great Hall, Homerton 🙄)

19/09/2024

Forbidden fruit a flavor has
That lawful orchards mocks;
How luscious lies the pea within
The pod that Duty locks!
- Emily Dickinson

25/06/2024

Lovely prose poetry for a gorgeous day

13/06/2024

It's not fair! Calling all academics, people who have studied PG, worked in academia adjacently - come write a manifesto for change next week 😊

06/06/2024

Geek post

I have been playing with how to respond poetically to the idea of a literature review for a few months - why am I doing postqualitative research and then returning to pseudo quant/qual structures?

Last week I read a literature fabulation in conversation with Karl Lutchmayer playing the theramin (as you do) at a conference at Cambridge. Pictures are fun, the soundtrack is better.
This morning, I headed to the beach where I enjoyed a fabulous constrained thought experiment this morning courtesy of DRAW: Departing Radically in Academic Writing - thought-anarchy through/from/with Erin Manning below.

20/05/2024

Raw Light is ND friendly - did you ever wonder why?

I was invited to be a part of this amazing panel for the annual disability Kirsty Wayland lecture at St John's College, Cambridge in order to share my experiences as a doctoral candidate with specific learning differences - ADHD and dyslexia. The other panellists are amazing - Professor Amanda Kirby is entirely brilliant and Professor Paul Wilkinson is a great example of lateral thinking associated with ADHD in action (he's also utterly brilliant 😊).

Let me know what you think

This year’s lecture was a panel event focussing on ADHD and higher education and was entitled ‘Unleashing Potential: Perspectives on ADHD and higher educatio...

18/04/2024

Prepping for the lecture this evening and remembered this gem from Jessica Jocelyn