a society with a caring operating system
a planet with a future
collaboration with
With a vision to create profound social and environmental impact, Reloved Revolution are based locally and collaborate with homeless charity, Emmaus Oxford. They train individuals who have faced homelessness to learn new skills by rescuing, repairing, and restyling second-hand items. They collaborate with local artists who are committed to positive social change, and who have a deep connection with nature and the environment.
While I was creating an ink for a commission, I took the opportunity while testing, to create a series of drawings, Rubia Tinctorum, using oak galls from the hedgerow, madder from my ink & paint garden, and gorse from the road verge. I was feeling the effects of changing hormones at the time and used pH modifiers, soda ash, alum & citric acid to alter the colours of the drawings. This series now features on Reloved Revolution’s first collection due to be launched in Spring 2025. Please visit their website https://relovedrevolution.com for full details and their instagram for regular updates @reloved.revolution.
collaboration with
The Gardening Drawing Club offers opportunities for adults and children in Britain to explore the relations between arts and horticulture. These free events, held monthly in various locations, provide a platform for workshops, talks, and experiences. By advocating for veganic gardening methods, The Gardening Drawing Club promotes gentleness and compassion while supporting seed sovereignty, racial, climate and land justice and reparation, biodiversity, and animal liberation.
The Gardening Drawing Club's practice is informed by permaculture, deep ecology and natural farming. It is part of the independent artist initiative Poetic Pastel. TGDC is a not-for-profit art project founded in 2021 by artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck.
upcoming event
During Oxfordshire Artweeks 2025, we are collaborating together to deliver a workshop which combines the basics of making inks and pigments while also learning how to grow organic annual flowers (such as phacelia, coreopsis and tagetes), which support pollinators in England through the summer months. The participants then have the opportunity to use the freshly made inks to respond to the flowers and the garden environment around them.
collaboration with
Providing affordable art workshops, talks and exhibition opportunities in the local community, this non-profit membership-based arts organisation was set up in 2023. I’m pleased to be a founder member and the chairperson of this thriving artsHUB with over 130 members, As an artist, it’s isolating sometimes working on your own all the time, so we created an organisation where local artists can connect and belong in their community.
upcoming event
A full overview of the Watlington artsHUB can be found at the website https://watlingtonartshub.my.canva.site and regular updates on instagram @watlington_artshub.
