The Artist Slaying The Monster Of A Woman's Insecurity

[Excerpt from Guru Kaur's blog on the Be the Woman... Private Online Community for women...]

Yesterday we were involved with Painiting in the Park, one of the series of free events held in Russia Dock Woodland, of which Meditation in the Park is the flagship.  Our friend, the artist John Gustard, who also painted Millie-Pup's portraits, went round to each of the participants to inspire and teach them.

At the end of the day, I asked John what had been his highlight moment: was it the beautiful sunshine glinting through the trees of a woodland in zone 2, seeing the kingfisher darting across the pond, or the vista of people with their art materials laid out appreciating the beauty of their surroundings?

"None of those" he replied.  "It was when I went to see those women at the bullrush pond."  I cast my mind back to when I'd been to visit them bearing the large tin of biscuits not long before Hari Karam went to serve them a cup of tea.  This little pond is idyllic, with an orchestra of rustling bull rushes and moorhens, and the irises' seed heads rattling in contrast to the fluttering of the large wispy feathery leaves of some of the water plants, all surrounded by the jewels of rose-hips and ripened sloes.  As I bent down to look at what she was painting I did a double take.  When had the Loch Ness Monster arrived in Rotherhithe?

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