“If you could see the things my eyes have seen…”

I have watched Masai warriors drawing blood from the neck of a bull to colour their hair.

I have sat in in the desert of Gujarat, painting henna on the hands and feet of a Princess for a seven day royal wedding.

I have watched tattoos being hammered into the skin of a nomadic woman entering her adolescence.

I have traveled through New Zealand and seen the Maoris being tattooed. Slept under the stars in the Sahara desert where the Wodabi tribesman paint their faces, and dreamt that I could paint like Salvador Dali.

All this is a tiny part of the inspiration that I bring to the bodypainting courses that I teach.