Have a Pizza

Nothing delights me more than eating a ‘Veneziana’ Pizza at Pizza Express. The marble topped table, the darkness, the light shining directly on my pizza.

and when I have eaten it, I can draw the other customers.

I am Mad on Purpose

 

I thought a therapist might be able to help me be more creative and less ‘precious’ about keeping rubbish objects. However, it didn’t work out as planned because I wasn’t keen on her and decided to keep my mouth shut and not let her know anything about me. Every time she asked me a question I said ‘I don’t know’. e.g. ‘what are you here for?’ – ‘I don’t know’. ‘What did you hope to achieve by coming here?’ – ‘I don’t know’. ‘Is there anything about your life you would like to change?’ – ‘I don’t know’. Basically, I didn’t like her and every time I told her something I wanted help for, like How to get to sleep at night and wake up at a helpful hour in the morning, she said ‘It’s a matter of choice’. Very irritating. Never mind. Maybe it’s true. Maybe I am just Mad on Purpose.

The Bin Man

The Bin Man, having dumped me, is trying to help me sort out my budget. What a mess! I had let him be in charge of everything and now I don’t know where anything is or from whence my utilities come. Everything is now ‘in arrears’. Well, it’s about time I took charge of everything again, including myself. The world better be ready for me because I am back in it!

My tutor David demonstrates throwing a pot

I have signed up for the local college to use their facilities and materials. I haven’t attempted to throw a pot since I was at school, and that never worked out. Yesterday I managed to produce a wobbly pot that most people would throw away. I am proud of it and will get it fired. I hope it doesn’t blow up! It is higher on one side than the other. Someone said it looked like a dog basket.

The Writing on the Wall

What I have been up to for the last year

I’m sorry. It’s always the same isn’t it. You get a new boyfriend and you neglect your friends. So I have neglected you. However, now I am back! I got dumped by the Bin Man and now my creative energies are released. He helped me to get my head together. His work here is done.

I would like to share with you some of the contents of my sketchbook. I am trying to add one little picture every day. They are autobiographical so you can see how things are going in a pictorial way.

Here is the first of the series: ‘Back at College’.

Back at College