Creativity

When The Student Is Ready…

June 18, 2011

I don’t want to gush too much but I’ve been going to art lessons for a few months now and I have to say it is one of the best things I’ve ever done. I want to try to unpack some of the benefits I’ve experienced from having a great art teacher.

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I Shall Be Telling This With A Sigh

May 5, 2011

People need people. Artists need an audience. Sometimes even the whispered possibility of an audience.

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Giving…

December 24, 2010
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It seems counter-intuitive but you receive things (albeit sometimes intangible things) by giving. You receive pleasure by giving pleasure, you gain connection through giving of yourself. So this holiday season I invite you to give something of yourself to someone else and see what happens.

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Congratulations; You’re Doing It!

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

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’

April 21, 2010
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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

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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Honeymoon And The Gap

March 23, 2010
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It’s one thing to discover you’re in ‘the gap’, and yet another to realise the honeymoon is over. What’s the solution when you’re taking two steps forward and three back?

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