Filling the trout pond

When is the work not the work

Technically koi but too gorgeous to resist

Every time I do a project, I forget. Even though I tell myself each time. It takes time to come down from something. When I make a show, I always assume my schedule will just go back to normal life - I’ll leap straight back in to creativity, to action, to the projects that all got left as I was subsumed in making a show, in the rehearsal room. And of course, it never happens that way.

Over the past two weeks, I’ve not been at my most productive. There’s a bunch of reasons for this I could not have predicted - illness, things unfurling in my personal life, some specific projects. But one reason I really could have foreseen. And that’s the need to fill the trout pond.

I’m lucky to have for a parent a brilliant artist - my mum paints extraordinary watercolours with gold leaf. Check them out - they’re like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Both ancient and modern at the same time. In fact, by the time you’re reading this I’ll be helping her with the install at Bath Art Fair, where she’ll be exhibiting and selling her work til Sunday. If you’re in the neighbourhood, check out her work - it’s incredible. I’m so proud of her. 

The Turning of the Sun, one of Linda Edwards’s beautiful paintings