I’ve spent the week getting my studio ready for my first students in over four months. It looks quite a lot different but we live in a different world now and we all have to adjust. I’m grateful that I can start teaching again - I have missed it badly. But it has been a strangely upsetting week. My studio is my favourite place in the world, it is part of my family home and feels like an extension of ‘me’. Putting up screens and taping out the floor space just feels wrong but I’m hoping that once my first couple of students arrive and the space is filled with laughter and creativity it will start to feel more normal.

I know that some of my students are anxious about coming into the studio so I have made a short video. In order to be able to embed the video in this post I have had to set up a YouTube channel (Urban Studio North). Which wasn’t something I was planning on doing but hey, maybe I’ll post more videos in the future!

I’m teaching my five day Breakdown Your Palette workshop so hoping for good weather! I’ll try to remember to post photos on Instagram through the week.

Needless to say that I haven’t made much progress on ‘the book’ …….