In the studio

How to be an artist

Stay loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Make little signs that say 'yes' and post them all over your house. Make friends with uncertainty.

- Henry Miller
a note on the door of the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California

"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication."  - Cyril Connolly

Let me keep my mind on what matters,

which is my work,

which is mostly standing still
and learning to be
 astonished.

- Mary Oliver (from "The Messenger")

The painting/collage above is "The Dreaming." In the first and last photographs, Tilly dreams on the studio sofa while work and dream on the page.