The beginning of a great adventure!

Safely arrived in Copenhagen yesterday! I was welcomed by Hannah and Frederick who kindly cooked me a traditional, very tasty, Danish traditional meal of plaice, new potatoes and pointy cabbage! Also homemade elderflower vodka and rhubarb ice cream...What a great start to my travel!
I am awear I have the potential to turn this into a food blog so I'll try to remain focused!

So the beginning of my exploration of 'Artists' engagement with life story work in care home settings ' has begun today. I am now at the 'Openspace' artists conference in Haslev, just outside Copenhagen. As I am typing I can hear some fantastic piano playing coming from the hall and drifting up the stairwell.

The conference is in an old school that has been turned into an artists centre. There are beautiful and inspiring works of art everywhere and lovely people and scummy food.  I've just presented some of the works from my latest exhibition  'Beauty in the Little Things' and there will be a q and a a little later. We've already had a glass of Champagne  in true Winston Churchhill honour!
There are a lot of artist'  here from all over the world and I've  been busy explaining  what the project is ready to interview them tomorrow. There are quite a few with a background of community arts and are interested in exploring how to engage with people suffering with dementia.

Visual artist and friend Sara Riesenmey with Hannah Brunn Hjorth the the train station.

Painter and musican Leah Robb with myself, sipping champagne  at the Illuminate exhibition