Original watercolour & ink painting 

I was invited in 2018 to take part in this very special arctic  sailing voyage in eastern Greenland by Anne Lydiat, artist and  sailor based in the UK. As part of her final PHD chapter she was  to follow in the footsteps of a formidable female arctic explorer  in the 1930’s, Louise Arne Boyd.  

We received special permission to sail into the largest national  park in the world, and were the only two vessles in the region for  the week we were sailing there. 

Hit by a car a week before the trip, my planned creative concept  for the journey was somewhat thwarted. With a broken right  wrist I determined to turn the trip into a creative experiment and  see what my non dominant hand could produce instead.  

I’ve found that being so physically restricted has shifted  something in my creative practice. Losing control seems to have  opened up a new voice in the way I work. This is an exploration  of how one’s identity as an artist changes as you lose/ regain  functionality of parts of your body so vital to your creative  output.  

Although absolutely gutting, I’m grateful for the opportunity to  have explored my creative capacity in a new way in such an  extreme environment. It was definitely a unique experience and  totally changed the nature of the trip. 

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