'Hello, I�m Swahaama aka Tracey Halkyard� an unusual name, which was given to me many years ago whilst on a Vision Quest through shamanism. Sometimes being alone, cold, wet and hungry will allow ones inner voice to speak clearly and tell you who you really are as a human being and what you�re really supposed to be doing in this wonderful experience called life.'
She spent her formative years in England at the Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD), becoming a sought-after artist who produced prodigious room-size works often twenty by thirty feet in size. �But my work had a very lean...more
