The Bend in the Road

My name is Gregory Morris Junior and I drive a Morris Minor. Yes, I know, I’ve heard them all before. Every Friday I take my motor out for a little tour, just me and my Morrie and we go somewhere nice for about an hour, then have a cup of tea and a walk and return home.

 I don’t drive to ….that place…. very often because, well, never mind why, but sometimes I do, well, you can’t not, can’t let it go entirely, can you. And there is such a pretty view.

 We was coming up the hill before the long stretch down towards the bend in the road when I noticed the little white Ford Fiesta in front of me taking the corner much too fast. As soon as I drove around it as well I saw it barrel down the hill towards the rock and the bend and I did what I always do on that stretch of road, I turned my headlights on. And from the bottom of my heart I prayed – brake, you fool, brake! Then I braked for her and the red lights in front of me came on and in the distance the little Ford stopped about two inches from the rock.

I am not the lizard girl

Yesterday Sam broke up with me. I still can’t quite believe how cruel he was, the things he said – so mean, so nasty, it was as if he had never cared for me in the first place.

We were walking on the downs; that bit where you come up and suddenly you see the sea in front of you and he was holding my hand in his pocket like a little bird. I was cold. I felt him looking at me from the side but I kept my face straight ahead. He once said how slim I looked in profile and how vulnerable and I wanted him to see me like that again. I lifted my chin to make it look thinner, “You are quite fragile, really”, he had said. I thought he loved me.

A rocket girl brought down to earth – introducing Lisa Ducie

An article by Saskia Wesnigk 

You know you have come to the right address when Lisa Ducie opens the door. She is a work of art in her own right: hair up in a wild black spray, a serious pair of glasses on her nose, plus the killer detail – a tape measure round her neck! She is of course working on something exciting in her studio space or actually her dining room.

Lisa was born in Lichfield in the Midlands in 1964 and trained in fine arts at Leeds achieving her BA in 1989. Her first ambition was to be a gallery painter but she soon expanded into 3-D installation works as “I wanted my paintings to exist in the real world rather than be an illusion. The audience is always important and active within the piece.”