March 2021 / Second lockdown is over. Now that we’re free I want to set up curated conversations with people whose lives and identity have been turned upside down by the effects of this pandemic. University students in International Studies who graduated on a screen after five years, musicians whose entire world was playing live and touring, dancers, actors and theatre workers…

For the first time I draw more than one cup, and a tray, anticipating a gathering of people, a rich conversation over coffee about all that has changed, and where we go from here.

The porcelain sparkles in the spring sunlight, flashing light everywhere on the walls and ceiling in my morning room. It reminds me what I love about impressionism, where form is described by living light as it hits elipse and curve, surface. As it shines through fine white porcelain, making it transparent.