Maudie Smith and I at UKMGX!

I haven’t been near this blog since last monthbecause life has been incredibly busy (in a good way). The last time I checked in with great news about JET BLACK HEART, I was at the start of a jam-packed schedule of teaching, school visits, events and workshops. The studio started to resemble a dumping ground. I workedaround piles of paper and books, sketches and snippets of material going into my current manuscript.

Today I did a ritual tidy-up of the studio. It wa...