Sounded like fun so I signed up! – it only dawned on me later that these weren't going to be just any scientists but Professors and leaders in their field at Cambridge University type scientists! Would I even understand the research, let alone be able to put it into my own words and represent it visually? How would I make this an honouring response to significant study rather than a frivolous caricature?

Here is my painting as it progressed, it's called MIND THE GAP

This is my explanation: We make sense of the things around us through a combination of the world we have experienced and the world that is in front of us. Our brain fills in the gaps between the two as best it can, adjusting to the patterns it learns along the way. Hallucinations can be seen as a consequence of a disturbed negotiation between brain and world, as someone strives to make sense of the ambiguous.
In my painting I symbolise the patterns we've learnt from our experience (internal), layered with the input we receive from our senses (external), and consider the gap between these two that our brains try to fill to make sense of the world around us.
If you are interested in reading more about Dr Paul's work follow this link: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-hallucinations-emerge-from-trying-to-make-sense-of-an-ambiguous-world

The crowd at the pub seemed to be there more for the science talk than the art I think, but it was a great opportunity to try something new, all good experience. The end of week exhibition was buzzing, it was so lovely to see people seriously engaging with my painting and very interesting to see all the other artists responses to their scientists work.

Here are some of the other pieces of art in the exhibition.

 It was a BIG challenge, one of those things where you don't realise what you've let yourself in for until it's too late, but I'm definitely glad I did it! It was a great opportunity to network with other creatives in my local area, a chance to exhibit amongst a whole new clientelle, it gave me the new experience of presenting a talk in a pub, was something to talk about on social media and add to my CV. It was also a great opportunity to work in partnership with the Holy Spirit in a secular setting. To increase my profile locally in order to draw people towards coming to my future exhibitions, where they can experience more of my God breathed, God filled, God inspired, God celebrating art work. To inject the Cambridge and UK art scene with something of our beautiful, kind, mighty Creator God one painting at a time.

Just before Christmas I had the privilege of being invited to do an interview with Matt Tommey for his podcast 'The Thriving Christian Artist' and it was published this week!

Click on the picture for a link to my interview.

I've received a fair number of new subscribers to my mailing list (welcome, if you are one of them!), new social media followers and some really lovely responses from individuals reaching out to me after hearing my story.

In preparation for the interview I was asked to consider a handful of questions:

• How did you first get started on your artistic journey?
• What’s been your biggest challenge in pursuing art and how are you working overcome it
• What has been the most fruitful habit you have employed in your life to help you thrive as an artist?
• What does thriving as an artist mean to you and what advice would you give artists out there who are wanting to go from surviving to really thriving as a creative?
• How do your relationship with God impact your creative process?

I didn't get to answer all these questions, you never know what tangent this sort of conversation will go off along! I found it a really helpful exercise at this stage in my journey just to stop and consider these things.

I must emphasise that Matt selects people to do his podcast that are at different stages of their artistic journey and business development. His heart is to bring encouragement and inspiration to those getting started.
How would you answer if you were asked these questions? Don't discount yourself and where you are at on your journey. Everyone has a story to tell, we all have people that we are a few steps ahead of, we all have something to share.

For those of you who don't know him, Matt Tommey is a sculptor, weaver, musician, author and speaker, he also runs a mentoring programme called 'Created to Thrive' which I joined January 2018, with over 1000 members now in our closed Facebook group. He has a public Facebook page 'Thriving Christian Artists' with around 10,000 members and he's written some fantastic books: Crafting your brand, Creativity according to the Kingdom, Unlocking the heart of the artist & Created to Thrive

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