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Welcome to Janice Dempsey's Personal Site
Loving the life I live....​

I trained in the 1960's as a fine artist at the Central School of Art in London (UK) and earned a living for over thirty years as an art teacher in secondary schools, with a break of 9 years in the 1980's when I went abroad to Brunei and Bangladesh with my husband, then became a mother. When I retired from teaching, I continued to paint and also became interested in writing poetry. As Jan Windle, for three years after separating from my then husband, I went to southern Italy as often as I could, drawing and painting in Sorrento and on the Amalfi Coast. Meeting Dónall, the poet and spoken word performer whom I later married, changed my life again. We are a strong partnership, publishing poetry pamphlets and collections and hosting monthly spoken word events and book launches, online since the pandemic began in 2019. Our publishing website is dempseyandwindle.com.   I'm in the process of adding copies of a journal I wrote as Jan Windle, on a now defunct blog, as a memoir for myself of my visits to Italy, where for one season I painted and sold my pictures in Positano before exploring the north and east of the country. (Links under 'BLASTS FROM THE PAST' below)
  • What is this site for?
This site is a personal indulgence, a record of what has occupied my time and energy. The material that I post on these pages is a record of the experiences that make me grateful I've lived through the second half of the twentieth century CE and am still alive in the twenty-first, despite the global anxieties of climate change, humanitarian crises, global inequality , wars and atrocities of all kinds. And, to put it simply, I feel lucky. 
  • There may occasionally be poems by me.
  • What will not appear on this site?
There will be no Paypal buttons or shopping carts. This is not a selling site. I have a commercial site called dempseyandwindle.com where books and publishing opportunities are available. The paintings on " janice-dempsey.com" are not offered for sale. I post them only so that I can remember making them and others can look and share them with me, if they choose. The reviews I publish here have been published elsewhere and have served to encourage audiences and readers to enjoy plays and books that I've enjoyed.
  • There will be no articles on politics.  Politics are important to me but this is not a place where I shall discuss them.


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