The Magical Women magazine volume one, I have poems and paintings published. 

 

https://www.magicalwomen.co.uk/my-opening 

Magical Women Show - My Openings, narrated online show. 

 https://www.magicalwomen.co.uk/goddesses

Magical Women Show, Religious Women and Goddesses

Dreaming girl on the Moors

https://www.magicalwomen.co.uk/francesnorton-solo-exhibition 

Fantastic to have a solo show of my work with Magical Women. 

In this set of ink and gouache drawings, I explore my cultural and historical locators as a Northern, working class Catholic woman. I am obsessed with stories and narrative inquiry. I use these methodologies to explore the rich and complex visual markers inherent in the traditions and rituals of my culture.  I depict here the statuary, costumes, votives, artefacts and domestic rituals of a life lived in faith. I am an object-maker; trained as a potter, as such I aim to imbue the subjects of my drawings with the weight of this world and a hint of the next. 

 

In the Forest of my Dreams: Frances Norton.  hand built ceramic sculpture.

University of Helsinki: Dream Cultures;
In this conference, we want to focus instead on the culture of dreams and dreaming in any geographical location or historical period.  Dreaming has often been seen as a universal phenomenon, but dream narratives, meanings given to dreams and even the content of dreams are culturally and historically contingent. The conference will offer a multidisciplinary arena for discussing how dreams and nightmares have been understood and conceptualized in various historical and cultural contexts.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/dream-cultures-multidisciplinary-perspectives