Anyone smart enough to realise that everyone is.

 

Artist in your own Residence group is beginning its fourth year.  2024 saw us baking, cooking, singing, painting, sketching, poem-making, flower-festival designing, editing, publishing, prioritising, note-writing in cafes, You Tube-ing, crocheting, felting, music playing, knitting, looking for angels, pyrographing, researching, course-taking, water colour-displaying, blog-slogging, learning new skills, trying again, surprising ourselves, and many more “ings” that an artist normally does.

 

Result?  Yes, we’ve had successes.  Yes, paintings were exhibited, or printed in magazines.  Yes, articles were written and published.  Yes, a church magazine was so good it climbed out of debt.  Yes, breath-taking floral displays celebrated themes throughout the year.  Yes, courses were completed and learning abounded. Yes, poetry was turned into songs for the choir to sing.  Yes, some poems and songs appear on Youtube.  Yes, monthly blogs went out.  Yes, handcrafted work was created and gifted. Yes, gardens were photographed and shared.  And a lot more yesses than that. 

 

But that’s not why we did it.  We did it because art is for everyone, and is part of being a whole person.  It’s what we recognise in ourselves, and what we will recognize in you, too, when you join us, even if you mooch around for a whole year trying new things and dropping them all.  (Sometimes it takes a while for your heart’s spark to burst into flame.)

 

And now we’re starting our fourth year.  Why?  Perhaps because it’s important to be with each other for support.  Perhaps it might be the only time that month that we remember, “yes, I AM an artist, and I have friends to remind me that I am.”  Or perhaps it gives us the courage to say, “It’s part of me.  It makes me whole.”

 

Want to join us?  Your own timetable is yours to control.  We meet on the fourth Thursday of each month on zoom.  We share updates, cheer each other on, commiserate when things don’t go well, and hurrah when they do.  First meeting in 2025 is on 23rd January at 6.30 pm.  See you there?

 

Oh yes, and there’s no fee.

 

Email  judith_robinson_7@hotmail.com  and put “Artist” in the subject heading. 

 

Judy Robinson