Sketch Therapist

Guinness features largely in the life of Dublin: the smell of roasting hops is one of my favourite things about the Liberties area of Dublin. Turns out sketching there is not half as edgy as I had feared and I had a lovely tourist experience, enjoying the beautiful streets and gentle colours, and I even saw a (non-threatening) arrest, from a safe distance.

This is where I sketch the statue of Charles Stewart Parnell I meant to say “handmade” not “waterproof” at the start when I’m describing the ink - sorry about that! Hope you enjoy hearing from the Dubliners I met as I sketched too.

In this episode, I visit the Hindu temple in the vibrant, lively town of Triolet in the north of the island. The air is heavy with incense and flowers, there are colourful models of gods dressed in saris everywhere and it’s all rather foreign to an Irish woman who isn’t hugely well travelled. If that weren’t exotic enough, I swing by a Tamil temple and sketch there, too. My mind is, as they say, blown.

This is where it all began! Back in 2012 my family and I moved to Mauritius for six months. I had no idea what I was going to do out there, but I didn’t know my life was about to change…

My brand new podcast! The first Sketch Therapist episode takes you along a winding country road to a little promontory jutting out into Galway Bay where a tiny castle has stood solid and proud for six hundred years and more. In this episode I give you my own guided tour, and capture stone and sky in ink and watercolour - solving a sketching issue I’ve been faced with countless times before.

Getting out to sketch with pens and watercolour changed my life. It wouldn’t be right not to share the skills (and the stories) I’ve picked up along the way with you, in an attempt to evangelise everyone, including you, into the joy that is sketching your very own world.