Скачать или смотреть Indelible Evenings: “Travelling Hearthwards” with artist and poet Louise Amelia Phelps

In this special session of Indelible evenings, Louise reads poetry and prose from her work around this. For her, the quality of inspiration has a seasonal tide that changes throughout the year. The adjustment from the summer months can be bumpy. It can spark our attitudes and issues around weather, cast extra light on our wants and needs as we push against the limitations we perceive. The drive we have, and the roots of it, are personally challenged. That is our own work to smooth out, for sure, but there is always a seat at the hearth, and if you don’t have one you can build one, and if you can’t build one outside to hold you, you can build one within yourself, fashioned from the threads of ether, dust and dew. The hearth point can be a nourisher, an anchor of light, with underestimated strength.

Biography:

Louise Amelia Phelps is an artist, writer and maker. Born in London she completed a BA Fine Art at Bath Spa University College, a Foundation in Art at Wimbledon School of Art and an MA Art Psychotherapy from Roehampton University. Her work has been exhibited in London, Cairo, New York and San Francisco. She has written for journals and her poetic prose has been published in anthologies for adults and children, most recently in Dark Mountain.

Her work draws on the poetics of sign, symbol, plants and place. It is grounded in the interface between inner and outer perceptions of our world and the movements they convey. Studying seasonal processes for 24 years, through The Ancient Wheel of Wisdom™, combined with Sacred Land Walking™ studies has led her to an expanded experience of creativity that occurs when we actively extend awareness to include the processes of earth that form the materials of our lives and invite them in. Plants are partners in creating colour. She explores this in her evolving ecopoietic research. We are not just working with ‘materials’ but with threads of life that do not end.