Tag Archives: young people

Emotional homunculus

Have you ever heard the term homunculus? If you Google it you get images of a funny-looking human with enormous lips and enormous hands. The homunculus is a visual representation of what our body looks like to our brains. In … Continue reading

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Summer flowers

July is a wonderful month for flowers. I love it, cycling along by the river of an evening. I can hardly keep my eyes on the path Iโ€™m so busy spotting old friends; comfrey, meadowsweet, red campion, common mallow, cow … Continue reading

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#KeeptheHeid

Here is a screen shot of the front page of the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) website. I have not long completed a commission for them for illustrations for a new web game called Keep The Heid (scottish for … Continue reading

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#StopTalkListen

Last week I was in Perth at the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution Youth Event entitled Stop Talk Listen. My job was to document the event in sketches and to help facilitate group activities, the output of which would be … Continue reading

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SCCR website launch

This week a very exciting thing happened. The Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution (SCCR) website went live and on it were my illustrations! Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been volunteering this year with the SCCR … Continue reading

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Strange conversations

Over tea yesterday I had one of those conversations you often have with a small child. It went something like this: Little Owl: Thatโ€™s bozanne. Me: Whatโ€™s bozanne? Little Owl: That. Me: The pepper pot is? Little Owl: Yes. Me: … Continue reading

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