A Countercultural Stance Copyright © 2025 | Center for Action and Contemplation. All rights reserved.   Today I am sharing a teaching...

Husband Ross and I are about to celebrate 28 years of marriage.  We were living in opposite countries to our birth (NZ and UK), having...

I love television’s Grand Designs.  New Zealand has its own and this week I found myself watching construction of a contemporary, four...

(Please note that free spots have now been filled.) Making the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius is normally quite an investment. That...

The day the London Stock Exchange's rules changed on 27 October 1986 was dubbed "Big Bang" because of the increase in market activity...

I've felt the need for a larger canvas for some time. This may be cheating, but the creativity of my last nine months has been...

It's been a busy month with one painting in the finals of the Tasman Art Awards and another in the Suter Nelson Art Society Spring Show,...

How to decide direction once apprenticeship is done and technical challenges are no longer the main focus of painting? Is it to...

Helping people find their purpose was the privilege in my career as a coach. So I shouldn't be astonished to find myself newly resident...

I thought it was time I let you know what I’m actually doing. My new address is a lovely warm cottage with a guest room that has a view...

(scroll down for the film! you don't have to read the guff.) Survivor guilt is alive in 2021 for those of us in New Zealand, while the...

I'm assured that the more I attend to my painting, the more neural pathways I am creating in my "paint centre". It's not just experience....

This is a post I wish I was reading rather than writing! Maybe it should be titled "Attempt to get a decent brush stroke technique". ...