Illustrated talk and Book launch at Burgh House in London on Sunday 10 November at 11.30am:
“A Female Gaze: Stories of Passion and Perseverance” is a limited edition artist’s book of just 100 copies, each signed and numbered by me. I have been working on it for the last 9 months and have just had it printed in London at Absolute Print in Archway with the wonderful Eugene providing his technical expertise.
A few people who had pre-ordered the book came to a small gathering in London earlier this month when I  talked about it straight after collecting it  from the printers. It  is only available to buy directly from me at the moment and not generally distributed, but I’ve already sent copies to the British Library and the Women’s Art Library and have had orders from America and Italy as well as the UK.
The two copies which have been ordered by Andrew and Linda in California have particularly touched me as they are for people who were on the EF/Interstudy art history tour across Europe that I lead back in the summer of 1983. They were students and their teachers from the Bay Area and had just finished high school. They still remember me sketching as we travelled across Europe for 4-5 weeks, from London to Athens.via, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Italy. The trip was a memorable and formative experience for them, but we have not been in touch over these 40 years. So for me the fact that they remembered me and wanted copies of my book demonstrates something of what I call “the energy that circulates” through an involvement with art!

My November talk is a chance for me to speak in a more wide-ranging way about the content, which includes images of my finished work and also takes you “behind the scenes” in my studio. It includes studio conversations and work in progress, inspiring stories of women artists in history and my own relationship with them and how they have entered my work, as well as images and stories of  exhibitions and collaborations over the years in Italy, Spain, Greece and the UK. I shall discuss how the book evolved, its multiple threads, and the decisions that were made about how to relate text and image in a way that encourages multiple readings and invites the reader to make their own discoveries