Creativity

Congratulations; You’re Doing It!

by John Lacey on August 31, 2010

The good news is that if someone tells you you’re doing it ‘wrong’ it means simply this: you’re doing it.

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A Creative Catalyst

by John Lacey on May 20, 2010

Strangely it wasn’t this scenic imagining that got me started so much as when it became apparent that fantastical bubble had burst around me.

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The Needs Of Your Creative ‘Children’

by John Lacey on April 21, 2010

We often the words ‘child’ and ‘children’ used to describe ideas relating to creativity. Your creative projects are, in essence, your ‘brainchildren’ and we are often told about the need of collaborating with our own ‘inner child.’ But perhaps there are other benefits to thinking of our creative projects in this way and articulating the needs of those projects in the way we might to the needs of literal children.

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Sister Wendy: Art Changes But It Doesn’t Get Better

by John Lacey on April 1, 2010

Sister Wendy Beckett is a bonafide nun with a considerable knowledge of and contagious enthusiasm for art. I recently had the delightful opportunity to watch her documentary, The Story Of Painting. One of the things that really struck me the first time I watched it was an early scene in which she visits some early cave paintings and muses over the nature of art.

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