Artist LC

  It is 9 years since I made this video animation of my experience with paralysis, read by Greg, music by Greg. It is just as relevant today sadly. Paralydis is so much more tgan not being able to move. http://www.holyway.co.uk/artist/index.html Paralysis seems to capture my thoughts And lasso them into an invisible plastic bubble That floats formless in my mind. I know inside what I want to say. I can see you before me vaguely through dark staring eyes Or sense your presence when lids are locked tight Yet the words will not marshal themselves together And I cannot make them comply with my will So that they can come marching down to my mouth They will not spill out into the world To make coherent sense. The lips lie fallow, unused. They are numb. They will not move. The breath is shallow Not enough breath then to give sound to the voice? But no It is more than this. The thoughts, though perfect, whole and complete Are stuck, as if in Suspended animation. There is no path for them t...

  Hoping to try and help Ginger, a sweet young puppy who was rescued from squalid conditions in Romania, get noticed. Pups and Paws Prevention CIC has donated funds to PennyPaws Rescue Romania to UK, to help with her travel costs if she can find someone to help provide a foster or adoption home. https://www.pupspawsprevention.com/ I am delighted to see her picture featured on the PennyPaws website on the Spice Puos page. Ginger and her siblings were all given spice names. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2024/11/28/the-spice-pups/

  So pleased to share a link to Greg’s new song which I have done the vidro illustrations for. It is very moving and was a pleasure to illustrate for him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWM-j_AC00 It has been featured on a special PennyPaws webpage  https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2024/12/09/a-little-dog-waiting-for-you-a-song-by-greg-crowhurst/

How wonderful that Pups and Paws CIC has raised money to donate to wards transport costs to help two dogs in Romania potentially travel to the UK. It was a joy to draw these images to help support the imitative. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/woody-available-for-adoption/ Ginger is one of the Spice pups. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2024/11/28/the-spice-pups/ We are really hoping both dogs will find a foster or adoption home soon so that they can come to the UK to escape the bitter Romanian winter. See pups and paws website to see how they are supporting animal and bird charities: https://www.pupspawsprevention.com/  

In order to help raise funds to rescue dogs, living in dire conditions, in Romania who are facing a brutal winter, I  began slowly working on the drawings for this wonderful video back in August. I didn’t know if I would be able to draw anymore after a major operation last month - on my face which, it turns out, has badly affected my eyesight and cognition and hands. The video was Jonathan Slater’s idea. He composed and plays the heart warming soundtrack, which beautifully brings the animation to life , it could not be more Christmasy! He explains in the link below how you can send a personalised copy of this video to a friend or relatives as a Christmas greeting card, with all the funds going to Pennypaws to rescue dogs, every single penny. We really hope people like and enjoy the animation and that it helps. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2024/12/01/pennypaws-e-card-video-2024/

The pain of losing my dog to a horrible determinative disease has incapacitated me from looking at pictures of him too closely to draw him. The sadness of his decline and loss is still vast.  But finally I have felt able to draw him. Unfortunately I still cannot see well enough or coordinate using  real pastels, so have had to master the use of computer to draw him. It takes even longer than a real world pastel, endlessly moving the colours around with my finger and smudging it in virtually to blend them and try to recreate a realistic dog. The process is really quite similar but more exhausting and time consuming, though in its favour it is less mucky and more detailed. It is just the tools that are different. I still would so much prefer to work with real pastel and paper, it is hard to specify how nany hours and days I have spent drawing a dog on the computer. And then there is nothing physical to show for all the effort. But it is, for now, the only way I can draw. So here...