So as many of you know
Anna is our youngest daughter, most of our 5 children have been swung around a dance session, crawled around the floor, been passed on, hugged and generally involved in Shallal from early years until teens...in their teens lending tech and design help and more - thank you Michael https://www.instagram.com/cuthbertwillis/as well as Anna https://www.instagram.com/anna__sophronia/?hl=en for art input.
Anna is now having a show in a community cafe, a favourite venue for me, community, where you come across art in your daily life and it can cheer, inspire you or you ignore it, no big deal.
Anna has danced, performed, created, designed, spooned baby food into Luke, our youngest's, mouth while we are all squashed in the front of our van and answered her phone for me! ( i was dragged reluctantly into mobile phone land rather late ), listened to me, helped me, supported me and inspired us all, her inspiration led to the process behind 'Connecting Forms' performance at The Tate.
So tonight we look forward to old friends and new faces at the Private View and i would like to stop and thank her, often she has been the most long term person in Shallal that i can easily access: to check ethos, ideas, and she understands and puts up with me, and i am very grateful.
I love her work and her approach and am, of course, totally biased!
I love the work of all the Shallal artists and believe in it being seen and enjoyed, otherwise i wouldn't still be here.
Thank you to everyone especially Elizabeth Tomos and Sam, and to Fran and all at Growbox Cafe https://thegrowbox.co.uk/cafe/for being so welcoming and supportive.
*Anna and her home ed friends also showed me that you can stay connected to your creativity and playful risk taking from childhood through your ( potentially self conscious) teens when many stop. I learnt a lot from working with them all seeing the Shallal style of work in their age group and relating together with so many others
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