I don’t need to tell you what a crazy year it’s been as we’ve all lived it. I’m constantly aware how lucky we are here in Aotearoa New Zealand. Other than about two-and-a-bit months of lockdown mid-year, we’ve been living lives of relative normality on our isolated little group of islands. There have been a couple of personal challenges and a major loss along the way for my family this year, but overall, we have made it through relatively unscathed.

[image error]Sarah wearing the Georgian robe a la Francaise I made from a set of silk curtains purchased from a charity shop

Writing hasn’t featured much for me in 2020. The third novel in my Shaking the Tree series is still sitting at around 50,000 words. Perhaps a New Year’s resolution to finish and publish it should be uttered at midnight on the 31st. I’m regularly asked by readers when the next installment is going to hit the ‘shelves’.

Even though I haven’t been writing , I’ve not been idle. Photography-wise it’s been a bumper year. I really feel like I’m beginning to hit my stride creatively in this medium. I now have over a thousand photos on all the major stock sites, my digitally composited images placed in local and international competitions, and I held my first solo exhibition at Kumeu Arts Centre here in Auckland. I guess now I’ve actually sold framed prints of my work from a real gallery I can officially call myself an artist