CREATIVITY CRUISES ~ Sun, Sea, Sculpture & Song
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About the Organiser
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Looking back, for this brief biography, it feels as though my life has actually been one long creativity cruise through a kaleidoscope of art-forms. Fortunate enough to have experienced this, I'm happy to be able to offer a similar experience (albeit in miniature) through projects such as this. Happy too, to be offering it on a Non-Profit basis.
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The youngest of four girls, I was born in Uganda to theatre-loving parents who were (literally - at the time) taking theatre around villages. Weaned on this and thereafter on Shakespeare and Eliot, our love of the arts flourished and on our return to the UK, I attended an unusually creative school, after which I studied Performing Arts in London. Gradually my focus shifted to Mask-Mime and Mask-Making and from here it was a short step into the world of Sculpture where I remained for over 35 years.
I took a job as an assistant in a bronze foundry while developing my own sculpture and then moved to the Greek island of Rhodes for a decade and Turkey for a further year, building a body of work later to be shown in galleries across the UK. To earn sufficient for this, I worked sporadically as a therapeutic masseuse on private luxury yachts in the States and Southern Europe.
Returning to the UK, I showed and sold my work as well as teaching locally, running Sculpture Holidays in Greece and Creativity Cruises on board Turkish gulets.
Now, in my middle-years, happily settled in Somerset, (and having mercifully been slowed down by a bit by the fatigue that comes with MS), it is song and poetry that are my main creative outlets, along with the annual organisation of Creativity Cruises.
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(For those who'd like to see some of the sculptures/poetry I've produced over the years, please navigate from Menu)
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