14/10/2026
One of our friends is starting a cool new creative endevour that we want to shout about. Read about it below!
Do you have a creative impulse you aren’t acting on? I would really like to paint, but I can never find the time. I keep meeting others in the same boat: people who want to paint, or draw or write poems — some sort of creative endeavour — but just don’t feel able to make time for it. So I am starting something called ‘Make Time’.
It is a free weekly online video call to work quietly on a creative project, alongside others in the same boat. 55 minutes of silence, followed by 5 minutes of (optional) chat (with no expectation to show your work!). It starts this Thursday 1-2pm. And I will keep at it, at the same time each week, for the foreseeable future. If you are interested then sign up, for free, here.
It’s open to anyone: doodlers and scribblers, traditionalists and mavericks, old and young, absolute beginners and once promising artists. And if it’s not for you, but you know someone who might be interested, then do forward this on to them.
I’ll be working, slowly, on a portrait of my grandad. He died in a care home during the pandemic. I didn’t see him for the last year of his life. But he was a character, with a characterful face, and I would love to capture his likeness in paint on canvas.
What would you make?
