by Wendy Beresford | Sep 29, 2020 | Horses & Other Friends, Life & Art, People
“Thank you”, portrait of Mooji, oil on canvas, 275mm x 275mm On 12 January of this year, Saturn and Pluto met up in the skies to begin a year-long journey, later to be joined by Jupiter. Historically, this combination has heralded a range of experiences...
by Wendy Beresford | Sep 9, 2019 | Horses & Other Friends, Life & Art
“Fire and Ice” by Wendy Beresford Last night I watched “Bohemian Rhapsody”, the movie about Queen’s Freddy Mercury. There was a line in the movie that really struck me. When asked what it was like to sing for all those people, he said, “When I...
by Wendy Beresford | Nov 12, 2017 | Horses & Other Friends, Life & Art
Hellooo there, from the mountains of Boston! I’ve always been very averse to goal-setting. The very term conjured up, for me, ra-ra motivational speakers whose teeth were so white, they had me reaching for sunglasses. When people asked me where I...
by Wendy Beresford | Oct 9, 2017 | Horses & Other Friends, Life & Art
September and October really feel like they’ve been a time of endings. I said goodbye to my 10 year old staffie, I gave up on controlling the Zimbabwe economic and political situation (yeah, I can hear the raucous laughter in my head!), my partner...
by Wendy Beresford | Jun 16, 2015 | Horses & Other Friends, Life & Art
One of the most paralysing aspects of being an artist, I find, is performance anxiety. Throughout the course of my life so far, I have danced in front of audiences, I have delivered indepth marketing proposals to important clients and even more important bosses, I...