Tracy talks to filmmaker, director, curator and writer Mark Cousins

Here’s our conversation: What are you so passionate about that makes you want to write, draw, sing, film or play? Here’s the place you’re allowed to dream and put into action – please leave your comments below the blog: It’s a world we think we know: the...

You never know where your childhood love will take you.

photo credit: Mary Anglberger As a teenager, my mother asked the local potter if I could come down on a Saturday morning and “work” in the pottery. Those mornings were spent in the two roomed building of the woman artist’s pottery studio. She would throw the pots that...

A Conversation with Brigitte Martin online Gallery curator, jeweler and author

Where are you on your creative journey? A day or two back, I sat beside a graphic designer editing some photographs, well actually a lot of photographs, beautifully taken, to fit a specific project. We have worked in this way for the past few years now. I have learnt...

A conversation with sculptor and jeweller Harriete Estel Berman

  The conversation I share today was recorded earlier this year – I listened to it again and I realised how relevant it is to right now but possibly, for most of us, it will be relevant at many different stages in our lives. As an artist, wife, mother,...

” Well if you are dyslexic, it must be a really mild form of it…” Dyxlexia Awareness Week 2012

  During the summer I was sent a book for review; Forgotten Letters: An Anthology of Literature by Dyslexic Writers. When I first heard of this book my instant reaction was: what benefit is it to anyone to be labeled as a dyslexic writer? Does it not immediately give...

Tracy talks to Vanessa Gould, director, producer and filmmaker.

Follow your heart?  Vanessa Gould: Director, producer and filmmaker- studied a mix of science, art, film and design, including architecture and astrophysics at Columbia University and music at the New England Conservatory…  Science and art are not often seen, by some...

Tracy talks to composer Alasdair Nicolson

Today I want to share a conversation with Alasdair Nicolson; composer, international music festival director, conductor and performer. I really appreciate the time Alasdair spared to talk me to about the his working practice, the effect of education on the development...