I felt very lucky to live in NZ while this pandemic occurred. With it’s fast and hard lockdown, it seems to have worked so far and now I’m looking back at it fondly as a time we slowed down and spent more time together as a family. I know not everyone had a good experience and I know that I was privileged to have a garden and a full fridge.

A lot of my time was spent learning about new technology for work as we moved English learners to online learning. This was a struggle especially as most of them didn’t own computers. I wanted to write more about life at the time but this is as far as I got, a few lines written in a notebook.

“I feel different towards the paintings I was working on before all this happened and have decided to put them to one side. The room where I paint has been given up to my partner who is working from home and instead i’m grabbing small moments at the dining table as my 9 year old plays or colours beside me - or more likely watches an episode of Barbie’s Dreamhouse. Because of this I‘m working on small pieces on paper and in my sketchbook I think that creativity can be vital as an escape during this time of so much uncertainty. “