My apologies. I chickened out of showing ‘Rock-climbers’; I guess it’s time I put my paintings ‘out there’ if I’m going to talk about them. I shall rectify that. I noted that Alan’s didn’t appear in the text either but he has set up a separate website for his wonderful pictures.

Thank you for this code of ethics, which is really a framework for decision-making and living. I had often wondered about the Native American way of being, its forms, it sprituality. I am impressed by Sitting Bull’s Vision and how he captured it and painted it. I often use client’s dreams and visions as the starting point for paintings – and of course my own too. Regarding the student who wanted to be in the choir. Educationally, it seems highly appropriate to have such ‘poorly performing student’ in a choir. The arts can foster hope in the poorly performing student, and increase their performance in other areas. So you seem to be trying to reconcile your personal ethics with a school whose power-base has a dubious code. You trod your way through that minefield rather well, I thought.

My own areas of investigation is art-based research and art-based decision-making. Not that art is the sole criteria for judgement. Of course, ethics comes into everything. But try telling industry, or church abusers and child molesters to behave ethically! If only industry held to your ethical standards!

I am a member of a group called FACK (Famailies Against Corporate Killers). Your comments on the legal system - judicial decisions are different for people outside of the power base of society, than for the powerful - applies here in the UK too. Poor families are denied fairness and natural justice in the service of the bosses and industry. Families are the new sacrificial lambs, the scapegoats ruined in the service of a healthy economy.

Somehow, in my life, while I take responsibility for my own actions I am left devastated by the actions of others. Art therapy seems to be a way of picking up the shattered pieces and making them whole again.