During the 2006-2007 academic year, I signed up to a creative writing class, Writing at the Museum. It was taught by Sue Morgan in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. This was not quite your ordinary creative writing course as it was quite open in form and nature. Not much theory was involved, and the writing was based around Museum collections and exhibitions.

I particularly enjoyed writing poetry around a variety of themes:

- Nautilus, inspired by the cephalopoda collection and the adventures of W. Evans Hoyle;

- Glass, inspired by the glass art of father and son Blashka;

- Monet's Impressions, inspired by Claude Monet's last days and his paintings;

- Vincent, inspired by the life and final paintings of Vincent van Gogh;