Playing catch up! Meet the maker Day 1 @joannehawker is Story. I’m now in my 5th year of recovery from PTSD and surgical menopause, I also lost my lovely mum to vascular dementia but I count my blessings every day and look for things to make me smile and create things to make other people smile. I took a BA in 3D Design Ceramics in the mid 80s but drawing was my first love. Due to personal circumstances, until 2018 I hadn’t created anything much for 15 years and it’s taken a while to get my Mojo back. I have done a succession of part time jobs alongside my art over the years from candyfloss making to massage therapy, farm work & gardening and helping my mum build up her rocking horse business. Before my surgeries I had spent 9 years as a full time journalist & photographer for a south Somerset free paper. Now living in beautiful Purbeck in Dorset I create fine art, illustration & ceramics alongside helping on my partner’s farm & have just had my work picked to feature on the Purbeck Arts Weeks brochure & had my paintings accepted into DACA. My dad says I missed my calling, I keep telling him I haven’t, I’m doing it now! @purbeckartweeks @dorsetartclass @dorsetteam @dorsetmind @dorsetartsandcrafts @dorset_news @dorsetmademarkets @purbecknetwork @dorset_echo @shopdorsetmakers_dorset #marchmeetthemaker2020 #marchmeetthemaker #ceramics #art #dorset #somerset #purbeck #artistsoninstagram #folksyseller #etsyseller #westcountrycreations #surgicalmenopause #ptsdrecovery #nevertoolate
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