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Illography Week Four, the ME Debate week.

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Yvie Johnson is an illustrator, book cover designer, and writer working on a memoir, a historical fiction novel and illustrated short stories. Yvie lives with Bipolar Disorder and ME, and is supported by her partner, three children and puppy in the Welsh countryside.

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Pattern is the prompt for day 10 of #Inktober2019 and I used nature as my muse. Lines come in all shapes and sizes, so the options for patterns are limitless, but I guess time is a factor with these sketches so I picked a few shapes and repeated them. When I sketch mountains, trees, water, clouds, the moon, I almost feel closer to nature. The way you do when you're out there, in the thick of it. I have strong memories to draw on, and photographs of various running and hiking adventures to refer to, igniting all of my senses. No longer being able to get into the mountains and forests occasionally hits me, like grief, it comes back with a heaviness in my heart in the moments I least expect. But equally, the memories I do have are able to fill my heart with joy and awe still. I think I'm moving towards a gentler acceptance of experiencing nature vicariously. Getting out for a run, searching colours to photograph, was my way of settling my emotions, healing my heart. Now I must accept the snippets of time I can get into my garden, where I sit near wild flowers, butterflies, birds, dandelions, turning leaves, the blue sky and stars at night. I'm feeling very blessed with that. My Tom has landscaped the garden complete with veg plots, bird posts, timber structures, a (growing) stone circle and winding paths so that I can once again walk the winding trails. There are so many patterns around us, how can we not be grateful for nature's abundant designs? ✨🌿🍃🍂🍁 #Inktober #Illustration #PenandInk #Artwork #Pattern #Nature #Mountains #Sky #Moon #Trees #ArtTherapy #MEcfs #SpoonieArt #pwME #Gratitude #Grateful #SeekingPeace #JourneyToJoy #ChronicPain #MillionsMissing #ChronicallyChallenged #WorldMentalHealthDay #Bipolar #Depression #Anxiety

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