Be Yourself, Actually
I was listening to an Adam Buxton podcast — Emma Diddy, as it happened — and she used a phrase that was slightly coarse and completely right. Something you’d only say to…
Mind, Body & Soul
The reflective side of the creative life.
Attention, habit, movement, and why making art is good for you — the part of the practice that has nothing to do with paint and everything to do with how we live.
Essays
On seeing properly, moving before you make, and owning more than you think.
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You Own More Than You Think
The drone was in its box for fourteen months.
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Your Brain Is Wired to Miss the Good Stuff. Art Is the Fix.
Your brain is a survival machine. It's been filtering out beauty since the Stone Age.
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Why Your Body Has to Move Before Your Creativity Can
The mind/body/soul connection isn't a wellness cliché — it's a creative operating system.
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You Don't Have Creative Block. You Have Creative Clog.
Everyone talks about creative block.
The Mind, Body & Soul shelf
The books behind the morning routine — nutrition, sleep and the neurodiverse creative mind. An honest line on each, and a link to an independent bookshop. Never Amazon. (Personal routine, not medical advice — sense-check anything before acting on it.)
