This is an extremely quick painting of my Sunflower. I wanted to get it printed onto bags for my son’s teachers presents at his specialist school. Sunflowers are so important to me as they also represent hidden disabilities and I wear a sunflower lanyard when I take my Son out and about. I just love them and really cheer me up when they bloom. This is 8” x 10” on Gesso board with acrylics

I just hope they turn up in time 🤞

Please sign here by following this link:  c.org/6zpQ5RxRMm

I feel like I’m always putting petitions on here but I have had such a tough time trying to get the right advice In Tower Hamlets, for specialised support for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) which is causing significant distress and fear to my family and me. 

Until Edward was one year old, he tried a few foods; I even remember him eating a bite of banana from an actual banana, and then it all stopped.  I could only get liquid foods down him with a lot of struggle.  As he has a global development delay and autism, he also has such high sensory needs that he just has no interest in food whatsoever and the textures of food make him gag.  When he does eventually eat he has to be in his own ‘bubble’, no one near him apart from me.  He hasn’t eaten at school at all this year.  For example, if anyone eats a packet of crisps around him he can’t tolerate the noise of the packet and sends him into meltdown.  After a lot of trying, when he was five he tried toast he now only eats toast and pizza (the same type) every single day.  If he doesn’t eat this there are no other options left, he refuses to try anything else now.  It’s extremely stressful for me to see this.  I have tried to get support and because he can swallow (he doesn’t chew his food properly and that’s scary in itself) there is no support.  The only place I can get the correct support from is Great Ormond Street, but they don’t accept referrals from the GP only CAMHs and they say they won’t as they don’t have the resources to do this.  The fear of him dropping his last foods is scary as I’ve seen him do this before but we always had the bread to keep him going. 

All I need is support as I know no one can get him to eat but if it does get to a situation, which we were in a few weeks back where I had to take him to hospital as he couldn't eat a thing due to him feeling under the weather, they very nearly put him on a drip but Edward can't tollerate this at all.  Even the doctors at A&E couldn't understand me when I was explaining about Edward.

Please can you help me by signing this petition, thank you. The link is in my bio… 🙏

​​‘Fuschia’ 30 x 40cm on natural linen canvas panel.’ 30 x 40cm on natural linen canvas panel. have just finished this little painting of my favourite flower 🌺…

I have been completely obsessed with growing a pumpkin.  I did plant my seeds way too late (seeds I collected from last year’s supermarket pumpkin) but I managed to grow one and loved watching the whole process.  So much so, I have had to illustrate the whole pumpkin growing journey

I am trying to get as much help as possible to get as many signatures for the below petition. There are too many children in Tower Hamlets that should be in a specialist school rather than in mainstream. I had to fight extremely hard to get my son into his SEN school and it was purely luck that a space came up at the right time. He was in mainstream for one term only with a SEN department and that showed it wasn’t right setting for him at all. He loves his SEN school and I know of so many children who need the same education but can't get a place
We are trying to collect as many signatures as possible, so please sign and verify it in your emails, and also share it with others. Thank you so much, please follow the link below...

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It’s the last day of my 40’s today and thought it was a good time to paint some self portraits, as a crossover to my 50’s.  I ended up painting a ‘Pentaptych’, 5 x oil on canvas panels, 24 x 35cm, to represent my 5 decades.  I am determined to face the next decade with as much strength as I can muster…

Maybe when I’m about to turn 60 I will be paint a 6 panel painting?  I will see 😊…