It was the following poem by John O’Donohue that inspired me to create a series of drawings entitled ‘small miracles’.
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of colour
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.
For the first one I ‘drew alongside the silence of stone’. This ‘holy stone’ was found on a Devon beach last summer. Look for a new drawing each week.