Newsletter: Twix Samain & Yule 2025

Dear Friends,

I’ve been taking small pauses in the frosty sunshine along the river, or in the woods, on my way to the workshop.  I particularly enjoyed watching a green woodpecker dig for ants next to a pair of jays burying acorns.
Jays and oaks share an old pact: the bird’s urge to store food becomes the oak’s way of spreading its future.  This is a bond that underlines the balance of interactions existing between two organisms that have co-evolved over great periods of time.  In fact the scientific name of Garrulus glandarius, given to the Jay, acknowledges its close relationship with the oak and its fruit; glandarius derives from the Latin glandis (‘acorn’).  This symbolises perfectly one of my favoured themes within my artistic work and my contemplative practice - reciprocity. READ FULL NEWSLETTER HERE