The practice has three layers:

Daily anchor — one mindful image or sketch, paired with a single word or phrase. A simple ritual to ground me each day.

Weekly theme — words like Serendipity, Sanctuary, Liminal, Roots, or Shadows will give me a prompt for noticing the world.  As always I'll be or revisiting themes from Avebury and Forton Lake.

Monthly anchor project — for something slower and deeper, I'm doing a “continuing painting” I layer into week by week, I'm calling this "Seven Rivers" and it is an ambitious and exciting project which will result in seven complete paintings, all but the last, covered over.   Read more>

By spring, I’ll have gathered a body of fragments: small studies, photographs, sound drawings, reflections. Together, they will form a quiet record of this winter, not a polished outcome, but a living journal of my curiosity.

I’m sharing this not only to keep myself accountable, but also because I believe creativity is one of the best ways to walk through difficult seasons. Maybe my plan will spark something for you too, a reminder that winter can be a time of rich creativity.