It has been interesting to create my second exhibition and notice the differences in how I have felt about it and approach.
Because I have done this before I have been much more relaxed and much more able to trust in the process and flow. I think this is natural with anything we do. Once the process is known and the individual pieces and how they come together to make something is practiced, enacted and seen and once a good or satisfactory outcome have been achieved, confidence is built for the next time. Much less checking and re-checking is needed.
This time I did not choose which pieces to exhibit in advance, I simply took all the pieces over to the church and explored instinctively what wanted to go where. I also took input from the people helping me and also we changed a few things on the second day. There are additional pieces to see, they are grouped and displayed differently and the whole movement and flow is different as it responds differently to the environment and space it is situated in.
As i look sense and feel the exhibion in situe, I enjoy the joy that the exhibition and pieces bring to the church and the way everything harmonises once in place. Like a note, tune or orchestra perfectly atuned.
I also enjoy that people are coming to the exhibition and sharing their reflections, views and ways of seeing with me. They are all deeply responsive and related to the people themselves, their experiences in life and sometimes even their experiences on that particular day. I find it amazing that the same paintings can invoke such different experiences, from space, planets and the interstellar, to the body and anatomy, to movement as seen by the elements and nature, to basic everyday items.
And I feel blessed for the experience and to welcome all these many and differing views in.
Emergence is taking place at St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough from 18th – 22nd November 2025. For more details click here…..
