The Doing
I’m painting, building boats, incrementally leaving a house, designing print matter, re-fitting websites, empowering technophobes, assisting small companies to communicate clearly, researching galleries who might like my art, being a glorious Mama & Wife too.
The constant puzzle is – how this fits with ‘the dream’.
My dream aged 5 – be a famous artist and have an art gallery.
My dream aged 19 was the same plus a city farm attached to the art gallery.
The dream now includes all of the above and a life on the land.
One of my current jobs is in exchange for training in low impact, strawbale/cob construction.
There are a few scraps of land I have my eye on, although the £100 per week price tag is off putting. So, over the next few weeks and months I’ll be creating the first draft of a business plan, and being brave enough to hawk the beautiful land owners in and around Hebden Bridge (an area not famed for low land prices or rents).
I’d like to acquire land, build a low impact gallery, animal shelters, construct geodesic domes for community spaces – all with the help of a dream team (all the above impossible without like-minded others).
All tips, comments, useful links, offers of land welcome. 
