Number 2
No.2 November 2025
SUPER MOON: FULL MOON IN TAURUS
Here we are in November where the nights are longer and the trees still brightly robed. Today is a super full moon and I patiently (I fib) await the birth of my first Grandchild.
Moon Belly November 4th 2025
Meanwhile the Lucky Dip exhibition opened in October and runs until the 30th of November. My work, You took my joy and I want it back: A Maidens Garland, is hanging within the 800 year old God’s House Tower in Southampton in excellent company with the other artists lucky enough to receive the funding and support from the brilliant aspace arts organisation. I highly recommend a visit.. of course I do!
Me chatting about the Maiden’s Garland at Gods House Tower on the opening night of the Lucky Dip exhibition and telling something of the stories of the survivors of FGM and of the tiny baby who died in August of this year when she didn’t survive the mutilation.
Photo by @Luke Shears
Also in October I started a new Village Hall Draw weekly workshop in the lovely Godshill Village Hall near Fordingbridge in the New Forest. We have plenty of spaces and you are most welcome to join at any time during the term. These classes are held on Tuesdays from 9.30-12 and £20 with all materials and chocolate biscuits supplied by me. The class is friendly and relaxed and I aim to help people overcome their fear of the blank page to become confident using different materials and ultimately finding their own artistic voice. We look at the work of other artists and explore a variety of projects and themes. An added bonus of this class is the possibility of wandering out on to the Forest and drawing en plein air. We had a queue of donkeys waiting to get in a couple of weeks ago and had great fun drawing them with our wrong hands as they posed accidentally for us!
A queue for The Village Hall Draw October 2025
I have just begun a project with Vic Briggs https://www.instagram.com/missvicbriggs/ celebrating the 250th birthday of Jane Austen which is Arts Council funded and involves me being the lead artist in an embroidery project alongside a theatrical production of The Jane Austen Fan Club. Very exciting! More on this to come….
May you winter well.
Warm wishes,
Tracy
www.instagram.com/tracydoveyartist/
tracydoveyartist.co.uk
New Forest
Hampshire
United Kingdom
