Ever since school, both Socrates and drawing have always been huge inspirations for me. Socrates taught me to ask myself the right questions, the same ones that still help guide my approach, even now, nearing my 50th birthday. Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I here? Socrates pushed me to keep on looking, until I’d find an answer at least worthy of the question. And he’s also helped to give me what feels like a kind of scientific rigour, to do with the unseen world, to

As the words “In the beginning was the Word” fell from my religion teachers’ rosy red lips, I felt time freeze for a long instant. It was like everyone stopped breathing, as the sound of those words began vibrating with life itself and the infinite potential of their meaning filled the room, and my own head. The Latin “Verbum” means “word”, but it conveys a sense of action, movement, or doing; like in English a verb is an action word, a word capable of creating, that moves b

“To go beyond our current level of consciousness, the body has to be ready to assume the new role that awaits it” Carl Gustav Jung Is the body conscious? Or rather, can the body reach another state or level of consciousness beyond what we’re aware of? With our minds and feelings, we live one thing at a time. Even though, mentally, we can jump from the present to the past to the future in fractions of a se- cond, nonetheless when we’re thinking in the present, we cannot simult

Before Angeli Studios came Misuma , a bespoke couture brand, started on return from India in 2007. ​ I would design dresses, trousers, jackets and coats – paying close attention to how my clients would react to weave, shades, lines and shapes. Beyond the style, colour and texture of fabric to suit each complexion, I would focus on what brought my clients alive, and most comfortable with those parts of themselves which often, in a male dominated environment, they would not ha