by heather | May 19, 2015 | Blog
I had ceased teaching and when the opportunity arose for us to buy an old house in France. it seemed the right thing to do next. Invest in ourselves. It was based near the town of Josselin in Brittany in a small village next to a river. The French Adventure. The...
by heather | May 18, 2015 | Blog
Whilst at University, I had a couple of terms voluntary teaching students on my old Restoration Course, mainly helping them write their thesis. This gave me great experience and made me realise just how much I had learnt in the past five years. My daughters’...
by heather | May 17, 2015 | Blog
The full title of my degree course was The Historical and Theoretical studies of Art, Media and Design. I honestly thought that there would be some hands on work with art and design. Idiot. This Course was pure academic. The first three months made me realise that...
by heather | May 16, 2015 | Blog
The latter weeks of the Restoration Course heightened my fears about finding work, One of the students had been over to Portsmouth University and said that they had an Open day. I knew nothing about Degrees, none of my family and none of my friends had ever...
by heather | May 15, 2015 | Blog
The trauma of my divorce and all that it entailed was diminishing and all focus was now on College life. Portsmouth College of Art offered us the most wonderful opportunity to spend four weeks on a student exchange to Ashville, North Carolina, USA. We were to ...
by heather | May 14, 2015 | Blog
No money, a rickety old bike for transport, weekends of working in a café and surviving on a pittance. I chose this new life and I had to get on with it. The great thing about being in college every day was that I felt as if I was no longer connected to the world...
