Babble + Yak

Yak: Emma  Rejection is one of those things that everyone experiences.  the fear of rejection probably has some roots in early caveman behaviour, but I am not a scientist or  Anthropologist (I hope that's the right "ist"?) but I am human and I have felt rejection.     Whether its a job, a partner, social or familial its guaranteed we will all feel rejection at some point.   In life you have to take risks and this fear of failure is part of that risk, you have to make yourself vulnerable and put yourself out there.  At the beginning of the year I did that. I decided to enter in to an open call, for a design to cover a Elmer the Elephant as part of the Great North parade for St Oswalds Hospice in Newcastle.  The brief was very open and part of my plan for 2019 was to take that leap, push myself and my work further.  The idea came together quickly, if I am honest probably too quickly for me to judge it good enough.  I went...

April has been a busy month indeed; it seems to have come and gone in the blink of an eye and we (I) missed the the blog post this month but perhaps I can explain.  At the end of our last blog post, Emma mentioned that I had some exciting news to share; I now have a studio space! The past month saw me leave the classroom for the second time and physically move all of my things into a new workspace, twenty minutes up the road, in the picturesque village of Horsley.  It may sound like my feet didn't touch the ground but one of the nice things about being self employed, amongst all of the scary and overwhelming things, is that you can set the pace.  I moved with the help of family and friends in a few trips then spent the second week of the Easter holidays working in my new space, by myself, for a few hours at a time, just settling in.  I am really looking forward to developing my work further.  After years of teaching and working to commissions or trends, it's t...