Calon Haf special

Solstice musings.

Jun 19, 2025

I am going divorce myself from society for one silly little post, though if you are feeling saucy; write to your MP, join a March, pay forward in mutual aid, join a community activity and always make noise to SAVE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.

In February I started to compile my sketchbooks into a zine

You know how it goes by now, I draw outside. I have been a compulsive sketchbooker since my Masters (2017-2018), it got worse when I came back to Cymru, since then i have been aggressively documenting my life and wanders.

Only when i see videos like this am I brutally reminded of how short i am, in my own head I am tall. Anyway, Its a slog as

I hate computer based work….I have little patience for it
It is self initiated, due to having x2 jobs and big projects on I have had very minimal time.

It will get there. If you read monthly you may have been able to tell that I am the most burnt out and fed up with my practice I have ever been. This is why (and the is seconded by Efa, and Efa is an amazing artist thus knows what she’s on about) this zine is important. I think once i pull 2024 sketchbooks together, find the narrative and rationalise this something will click in my brain again. I have more time to work on it now so stay tuned.

Left sketchbooks 2024 (missing one and another half of one started in autumn 2023) and Right: work from 2025 so far, for some reason it's cut out the yellow one at the bottom

Haf ‘24 is currently being scanned to death.

A Year of endings, but that means new beginnings right??.. please.. anyone?

Finished Calan Cymru, exhibited it at my first solo exhibition, ran my first funded exhibition and survived the academic year

I also worked on cool stuff that i can’t talk about till it’s released… Sorry

You will have to wait, Efa and I have all kinds of sneaky stuff just waiting to be aired

Lucy Dacus, Patrick Wolf and Self Esteem all bought out albums this year…

I am blessed. That is all.

What’s on the sewing pile?

A lot but mostly everything here has a deadline of July so you wont have to wait to long!

Getting everybody else to sew too

I was very very lucky to do my degree, not many folk from my background really had that opportunity, so i now spend (as a self employed job, which is amazing) my time passing on the know-how.