I don't make resolutions, but earlier this month I did do a review of 2008 looking at my achievements over the year. I then spent time thinking about my hopes for the year ahead. Despite taking on a small studio space at Spike Island last January I feel (yet again!) that I have achieved very little in my own creative practice and that the emphasis has been on my work in education. But with less paid work and more time ahead of me I plan for 2009 to be the year when this balance shifts and some of my work in progress gets completed.

I have started daily practice again after a lull over Christmas. My focus for the last week has been 'The epic in the everyday'. Here are the photos: