Different landscapes in our sense of the world also speak to us differently, and here it serves us to consider the aspect of ‘North’ in Phillips’s work. Made on and of the chalklands of England’s South Downs, then nurtured and moulded in art school in South Wales (where his dissertation for his degree in Fine Art provides us with another clue -  ‘Remedy in the Affliction: Beginning with the Wound’) the intervening years have slowly led the artist Northwards.

What struck me most during the workshop, and what I have since revisited in reading his work, is Romanyshyn’s ability to remain faithful to both scholarship and soul. He does not reduce myth to symbol, or psychology to a set of tools or techniques. Instead, he invites us into a relationship with psyche, with image, with story.

Online sessions for Art Psychotherapy or soul-centered Mentoring can work well for many people, as an alternative to in person meetings.

This year the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics celebrates its 30th anniversary with this edition of Stravaig. I am delighted to have two...

What if the ecological crisis is not only environmental, but spiritual? A therapist and artist reflects on Spiritual Ecology and the sacred call of the Earth.

I am now offering Art Psychotherapy for adults in Abergavenny, from a lovely space at Your Healing Rooms , conveniently located in the...

The work of Anselm Keifer has been an inspiration to my own since I first began to create visual art. This superb exhibition of varied...

I'm pleased to present my first finished works of 2025. In pastel and ink on paper, I have sought to evoke themes of thresholds, the...

Imagination is the ground of reality. What a treasure trove this book is. "It must be understood that Imagination in the poetic,...

Last week I visited the west country, during a spell of unusually prolonged warm and sunny weather for the British Isles during spring....

I offer both Art Psychotherapy, and Mentoring / Coaching sessions. There are many similarities and overlaps, for a start, in all my work...

"If there is ever to be any real peace on earth, all people need to relearn and reestablish the now diminished and hidden arts of Grief...

As you can see from the condition of this book, it has lived a life. A sign of its importance to me during the past decade, and no doubt...

Important writing on imagination, by Gary Lachman . This book describes the various ways in which imagination has been (mis)understood,...

I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...

An exploration of material becoming living presence in the art object. Jungian Analyst Warren Colman explores the formation of...

...in a world that is more often than not associated with a harsh and destructive bottom line." It's scary stuff! The Soul cares not for...

"Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking." We might hear this excerpt from a poem by Antonio Machado in relation to...

"If explanation is the self-cure for curiosity, we have a lot of explaining to stop doing; if desire is the refuge from wide-angled...

This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe...