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Cassandra Arnold

Cassandra Arnold

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About

What do books mean to you?

For me, they are gateways to other realms, conversations and adventures with friends, exploration of lives I might have lead.

I read fiction to escape and be refreshed, and non-fiction to explore, be challenged and entertained.

I write to transport you too to other times and places, introduce you to characters you will love, and inspire you to live your best life on this beautiful earth.

Books are my allies in this adventure called life

Cassandra Arnold

If you have already explored this site, then you know I write non-fiction and poetry about my life as a doctor in Australia and working with Doctors Without Borders, and also fiction: romantic, adventurous or speculative, but almost always with an environmental theme.

I was born in England, spent most of my life in Australia (with a year in Papua New Guinea early on), and moved to Calgary, Canada for my partner David Wood’s work at The University of Calgary in 2010.

I have had a greater variety of jobs than I can fully recall before beginning my career in medicine. Loosely from worst to best:  mobile ice cream van driver, frozen chicken factory worker, household census taker, babysitter, housewife, leafleteer outside London Underground stations, lunchtime waitress, shop assistant, screen printing entrepreneur, community group leader, government office clerk, domestic violence refuge worker, elected Newcastle City Councillor, Australian emergency and remote area locum doctor, and physician with the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

I retired from medicine in late 2015.

Current interests: Art and writing of course, Permaculture, digital sketching, illustration, and anything to do with the natural world: ecology, biology, climate change, exploration, geography and history.

I still travel frequently to visit family, or with my partner David Wood for his work. If you would like to hear about my new books and adventures, then I invite you to join in through the newsletter below.

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34/365
Playing with muted colours. I will ...

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Playing with muted colours. I  will probably go back do more on this one.
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#dailymarksanddrawings #dailypractice #dailyartpractice #mindfulmarkmaking #mutedpalette #abstractsketchbook #abstractlandscape #charcoalsketch #inktenseblocks  #artplay #the100dayproject  #the100dayproject2021

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33/365 #dailymarksanddrawings.
This was fun, ...

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This was fun, feels spacious to me. 
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#acryliconcanvas #dailyartpractice #mindfulmarkmaking #abstractexpressionism #sketchbook #artexploration #minimalistart #treepainting #treelovers🌳

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Sunday afternoon poetry live.
LATHAM'S ...

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Sunday afternoon poetry live. 
LATHAM'S SNIPE 
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This is about an area where I lived in Australia, a Ramsar wetland at one end of the Asian-Australasian flyaway.
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##sundayafternoonpoetrylive #livepoetryreading #livepoetry #naturepoetry #poetsofinstagram #poetsofig #poetrybooks #ecopoetry #poetryreaders #poetrylive #authorreading #lathamssnipe #snipe #birdmigration #migration #flyway #newsouthwales

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32/365
16 x 20 inches... going crazy with ...

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16 x 20 inches... going crazy with this one! I don't normally use gels and pastes, so I suppose I label this an experiment! 
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#dailymarksanddrawings #abstractlandscapepainting #acryliclandscapepainting #acryliconboard #the100dayproject #the100dayproject2021

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31/365 #dailymarksanddrawings
First drawing,...

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31/365 #dailymarksanddrawings 
First drawing,  not exactly Picasso, but I really wanted to pick up my pencils again,  so this is a Zoom doodle, and then I added fire and smoke with my Photodirector app. That was an extra dose of delight!
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#dailypractice #dailyartpractice #dailyplay #creativeprocess #happyartistmovement #pencildrawing #pencilsketch #photodirectorapp #photodirector

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30/365 THE END OF THE JETTY
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Inspired by ...

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30/365 THE END OF THE JETTY
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Inspired by childhood holidays in Orford,  Suffolk.  We spent hours and hours catching crabs with meat scraps on a piece of string, lining them up to play schools... and then  putting them back. 
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Textured paper and charcoal,  kind of perfect. In "Texture for nothing and your posts for free"... and that song is going to be an earworm all day!
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#dailymarksanddrawings #dailypractice #dailyplay #dailyartpractice #the100dayproject #the100dayproject2021 #happyartistmovement #fishinglife #suffolk

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Golden hour walk by the river. I'm hoping I ...

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Golden hour walk by the river. I'm hoping I can capture some of that in a painting one day.
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#bowriverpathway #calgary #bowriver #goldenhourphotography #goldenhour #simplynature #naturephotography #riverphotography

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29/365 FORTITUDE
That's not a word you ...

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29/365 FORTITUDE
That's not a word you hear very often anymore. When I was a child my favourite author was Violet Needham.  In one of her books this was the password that the young hero needed to remember.  It's not quite resilience, nor is it exactly determination, not even courage, Something like a combination of all of those.  If you need it in your life right now then I gift it to you with this little collage.
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#dailymarksanddrawings #dailypractice #dailyplay #dailyartpractice #mindfulmarkmaking #fortitude #artforsalebyartist #smallworksonpaper #mixedmediaonpaper #mixedmedia #collage
#the100dayproject  #the100dayproject2021

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28/364 altered book warm up. THE CITY OF FROZEN ...

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28/364 altered book warm up. THE CITY OF FROZEN DREAMS
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It's a weird narrow format for painting but super fun. 
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#dailymarksanddrawings # #dailyartpractice # #mixedmedia #alteredbook #sketchbook #mindfulmarkmaking #markmaking #storiestotell #meaningmaker #the100dayproject  #the100dayproject2021
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