Retirement has given me a gift I never quite had the time to fully enjoy before: space for creativity . After years of busy schedules and responsibilities, I now find myself intentionally carving out time to explore, create, and simply be . And as I’ve discovered, this isn’t just fun — it’s good for me, in ways that I'm really only just beginning to fully understand. I've been walking and listening to Daisy Fancourt’s book Art Cure. The book makes a compelling case for what I

Metal Magic at Rainbow Jane ✨ Get ready to transform everyday aluminum drink cans into art at our upcoming Rainbow Jane session! On Sunday, February 15th , the Rainbow Jane session is a fun and relaxed workshop where you can cut, emboss, and paint metal into 🐟 fish, 🌸 flowers, ❤️ hearts, 🦋 butterflies —and much more. We’ll be using alcohol inks on aluminum , which create mesmerizing effects as the colors blend and spread. Add drops of metallic inks ✨, sequins, beads, and w

A Starry Start: Our First Family Story and Art Session at Rainbow Jane. Yesterday, Sunday 18th January, Rainbow Jane was filled with stories, colour, creativity — as I hosted our first Family Story and Art session. We started the session by reading Camille and the Sunflowers, the first story in the beautiful book Small Stories of Great Artists by Laurence Anholt. After the story, we headed out to Rainbow Jane’s art shed, ready to create. Everyone had the freedom to start howe