Come and sit down. Tell me your story.

Conversations about art, creativity and the lives behind the work. Listen to the podcast, join me for dinner or take some time for yourself at an artist residency.

Three ways to pull up a chair

  •  Podcast

    Conversations with artists, collectors and people who help art happen, alongside personal reflections from my Studio Notes. Pull up a seat and listen.

    Explore the episodes 

  • Dinners

    A relaxed Sunday evening with creative women, shared food and conversation that matters. Bring a plate, your stories and yourself, just as you are.

    Explore the dinners 

  • Residency

    Time for yourself and your art in a warm, welcoming home. Shared meals, easy company and conversations about your practice, without a set curriculum or pressure to produce.

    Explore The Residency 

Being heard

When you sit at a table with someone, they feel listened to. Seen. Heard. It's intimate in a way a boardroom or a corporate space can never be. It softens us. When someone is talking and I know it matters, I stop. I put down what I am doing, I hold the space and I really listen. That is the whole thing.

Warm and cosy

It happens here, at my house, and the house is part of it. I have made it warm on purpose. It feels like a holiday house in the country. A chiminea and a deck outside with a heater so you can stay in the cool air. An egg chair in the garden to sit and journal. Fairy lights at night, and a little red bridge that goes nowhere. Inside there is art everywhere, salt lamps and candles, warm bedrooms. It's not fancy and it's not new, it's rustic and lived in. The Dutch have a word for it, gezellig. Warm and cosy. That is the feeling I want you to walk into.

Nurtured and cared for

You get a hug when you arrive and a hug when you leave. In between you are nurtured, cared for and above all - seen. One artist I worked with, Stevie Lepp, put it best. We never painted once, it was all conversation, and she still says she feels I saw her in a way nobody else ever has.

That is why I call it the Table, not a workshop or a program or a community. A table is just people sitting with each other, being with each other. Personal. Intimate. That is where the real work happens.