Season’s greetings dear friend,
Thank you for all your support this year. Your comments and messages reassure me that my work makes sense. Your commissions, purchases, studio visits, modelling… soulfood!
If Meta cancelled my social media tomorrow because of showing a bit too much ankle, or too much cow poo  (while the algorithms proliferate really toxic sh*t), we’d still have each other here 😊. I genuinely love sharing process videos, and receive a surprising amount of feedback that other artists find them useful. So here’s the last one of 2025:
Dungscape
Even when I pivoted from portraits to cowpats you stuck (!) around.
Big doors are opening for Dungscape, which I’m excited to share with you soon. For the eminent entomologists who have contributed so generously, it is great to be able to further the impact of their research.
Turns out there are plenty art-lovers who value biodiverse ecosystems teaming with beetles, wasps, flies, bees, butterflies and moths. Systems that have evolved to balance themselves if undisturbed. Systems that pollinate, control pests, feed the birds, and recycle waste naturally.
Jobs to neglect
So on behalf of the insects, and the fruit trees, thank you for not bothering with the pesticides. Leave unkempt garden areas, let the weeds flower, and skip a few mows. Use the time this summer to make a daisy chain, read outside, and enjoy the buzz of a bee’s wings against blossom petals.
Have a wonderful Christmas - see you in 2026
Gxxx
PS - moving home
I’ll be moving this newsletter (and my blog) onto Substack shortly. It feels like a calmer corner of the internet, built around writing and readers, rather than marketing noise. The sort of place where a judiciously placed Oxford comma might shine. Nothing about the tone or frequency of my emails will change. You will continue to receive them as usual.
I’ve already imported my blog archive there, which you can browse here