Back 2 Basics.

going "back to basics". just a wee collection of oil pastel experiments from the start of 2026. my oil pastel love affair started in the third year of my PhD having suffered serious mental damage from a time i sometimes wish i didn't remember. picking up some wee (fondly-named) adult-crayons was the offering my body needed. feeling the tactile sensation of pressing and scraping the pastel into the paper, a sensational mess of textures and colours, spluttered and splurged onto the sacrificial altar of my "too-muchness". this beatuifully soft & intense medium helped me explore hard emotions—to hold and feel and turn them around in my hands—and to ground myself in the present when i struggled to remember what was real. it is such a blessing to experience beauty from our own hands. remember to go back to basics, and to sit with yourself for long enough to re-get to know yourself again. we're always changing! may you never stop creating and staying curious in the process of re-becoming.