Music can be enjoyable for many people, it creates a feeling of mood, energy and excitement, and gives an atmosphere and feeling to the sounds, rhythms and beats. Being deaf and growing up, I was surrounded by music in my home mostly played by my siblings and also by the Indian movies that we watched as a family. This is how I know about music of the 80’s and 90’s, but then I left home and by the year 2000 I had moved away from listening to music as I started to learn about

This weekend I showed my new paintings, some interesting discussion points took place. People would enter the room then leave after seeing my works from a distance, almost too much to see. I asked a viewer what is making one do that, she responded that lead to an interesting discussion about understand abstract arts, how figurative are simple and one can communicate a language with everyday objects. Works that are abstract, one finds this difficult to communicate or access a

With just over two weeks left before the exhibition opening, there's still a lot left to do; there's been delays with deliveries because of the snow in December and Christmas and so all my hopes of having things finished early are feeling a little far-fetched, but this has meant more time for me to work out some of the logistical things that had needed sorting out with the materials I'd had already. I now know far more than I ever thought it was possible to know about piano h

A lot has been running through my mind - a lot of frustrations, anxieties, concerns and nerves because this installation hasn't been set up before. This means it hasn't been checked. It's the first time the poles have been brought in to be put into place so I can see them together, and they don't quite stand straight and as well as the way they lean, they're a little too tall and I'm not sure how they look without the paint, so I've used the old Room Full of Memories installa

Despite the bitter cold, people still braved the elements to come to see the work in progress on Unheard Until Marriage and the sense of excitement about the work has really motivated me to keep pushing forward with it. The audience were intrigued by the way the work was developing and said how striking the installation was. It's something that I had almost lost sight of, being so immersed in the details of the technical construction of the piece. It's a difficult process, em

Last weekend, it was the Open Studios weekend at Redlees, where I have my studio space. It's interesting going in there at the moment because when people ask me what I've made lately, I just laugh and point at my six-month old daughter! I think she's quite an artistic achievement, but perhaps not something I'd want to sell at an open studios event. I have been painting, and I'm really excited about the work I've been creating lately, but because I've not been in the studio so