2014 The Year of the Wife or the Artist?

i know this is strange title for this blog, but since my last posting the following things have happened, and have made me really stop and think about what is really important to me at this stage in my life:

1) Re-decorated back gallery

2) Converted sitting room back into front gallery

3) Continued work and research on Darwin

4) Moved my bedroom into the old studios

5) Started work on the new basement kitchen/workshop/library/meeting area

6) Christmas and New Year have come and gone, essentially alone by choice

7) Spent a final weekend away with my husband

8) Made positive reconnections with my daughter and my mother

Fairly obviously, being a good/happy wife depends on being able to dedicate quality time to your husband. Being an artist requires a similar level of commitment, and if nothing else, the last 20 years have taught me that I'm not very good at doing these two things at the same time. One gets left out and then causes resentment. The way I work is all or nothing! Another artist said to me today that I put them to shame with the amount of work i have done over the last couple of weeks. But my point is that we all have to make choices. I chose not to do Christmas, and have now chosen not to do marriage either.

2014 is going to be a year dedicated to my creativity, The Studio Gallery and making an independent living. "The Movement and Action of Worms" exhibition is the keystone to this commitment.

I really like this quote by T S Elliot: 

" Last year's words belong to last year's language,

 and next year's words await another voice."