This is chestnut season. In a recent visit to my mother’s alpine village the trees were in ‘their autumn beauty’ and the chestnuts trees were the most abundant. The woodland paths were wet and thick with leaves and spiny ‘burs’ filled with nuts. I picked…
I am working on a new visual art programme for children on the theme of astronomy. I’ve always been fascinated by the working of the planets and for years I have run an art programme for adults titled “The Sky Within”. As the title suggests…
Ingredients 700g courgettes, 2 eggs, 8g salted capers, 50g grated parmesan, black pepper, 60g milk, 60g chopped onions, 40g stale bread, 20g pine nuts or blanched almonds, 30g extra virgin olive oil, 10g anchovies in oil, 150g canned tuna in oil 60g ne blended bread…
Having been told as a young child that I was like my mother, who believed she couldn’t draw a straight line, artistic expression was left to a brother, whose talent was undeniable. Years of self exploration later, a course in the Enneagram revealed an aptitude…
There are places we visit whose memory will stay with us forever. Places of particular beauty where something unexpected may happen catching us unaware and filling us with rapture. Such a place is Trani’s cathedral in Italy. Our group had travelled to Trani from Ireland…
A delicious dessert! Ingredients 300g short-grain rice, 250g apple, 100ml cream, 100g sugar, 60ml rhum, 50g ground almonds, 30g crushed amaretti biscuits, 30g raisins, 3 eggs, 2tsp vanilla extract, 1 pint of milk mixed with 1 pint of water, salt, butter for greasing oven proof…
In this page Art to Heart’s followers write about their creative work and experiences. I have been practising yoga, meditation and mindfulness for a number of years, and in 2017 having trained as a yoga teacher I began to think of ways to help others…
I never tire of telling people who attend Art to Heart’s workshops and courses how important it is to make time to explore and experiment, to observe and listen, to play with a wide range of material and to work across art forms, to avoid…
A recent visit to an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London has sparked some serious reflections by me on the arts and crafts subject. Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer, printmaker, teacher and a leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism….
I have a fondness for travel sketchbooks which I always carry with me wherever I go. I maintain that taking the time to do a quick drawing while sightseeing is way better that taking a snapshot with the camera (which by the way, I also…
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