Tag: brain

  • Creative Training – doin’ my brain in!

    I spent the last two days in a freezing hall in Pontypridd, with a host of other creative people, doing our training as Creative Practitioners for the Lead Creative Schools project in Wales. I’ll be working with the Archbishop Rowan Primary School in Portskewitt this term. I was among a load of creative people from…

  • Doodling is good for you

    Doodling is good for you. Doodling is good for the brain and for your creativity. As you doodle, the left hand side of the brain begins to go to sleep and all those annoying thoughts about what, where, when and how, fade away. The the magical process begins. The right side of the brain, given…

  • How to win the Olympics – read great stories!

    Yes, that’s me – posing at the starting line of the sacred running track of Ancient Olympia, home of the original Olympic Games that started some 2500 years ago. We went there on holiday three years ago and that’s where the stories for my Olympia series began to take shape. As I stood in the…