Finding your artistic passion

Finding your artistic passion

Making art is part of the human experience. Whether it is painting, sculpture, poetry, cooking, even the way you dress each day, it doesn’t matter, its part of who we are. I really believe that anyone who says “I am not creative” is wrong. Its more likely they haven’t...
Atelodemiourgiophobia

Atelodemiourgiophobia

Can you believe this word? This is real – this word (that I cannot pronounce) means the fear of imperfect creative activity. It fits so perfectly with my thoughts of late. Its January, I am making a million plans about how much more I will paint, how I will start new...
Drawing Inspiration

Drawing Inspiration

How do you find inspiration for your pen drawings. It’s a huge world out there and there are a gazillion things to draw, – that’s right, a ‘gazillion’. It’s really a matter of picking something and getting started. It doesn’t matter your skill level; if...
The sweetest surprise

The sweetest surprise

I had the most delightful surprise. I recently went to the Sunshine coast looking forward to a relaxing weekend by the beach. I arrived to find my own artwork adorning the walls of this newly renovated apartment. If you like the look of this, and want to stay...
Art as meditation

Art as meditation

Many of us have heard about the benefits of meditation, but sometimes find it hard to do.  Fewer of us know about the profound benefits of artistic expression. Creating art, however, is another way to access a meditative state of mind and the profound healing it...
Painting to music

Painting to music

We all need a passionate boost in our creative process once in a while. Creative writer Julia Cameron makes the point, “When I am afraid of my own creativity (which may be to say I am afraid of my own passion), I turn to passion and creativity of others whose...
Perspective is everything

Perspective is everything

You Tell Me  It cannot be so you say… Simple hands cannot change the fate of humanity. I say humanity is a boundless, absorbing heart, Transcending death, and generations, and centuries, Absorbing bullets, and stitches, and tear gas, Enduring humiliation, and illegal...
Winning and losing

Winning and losing

When I’m working on something, I just paint and play and paint and play till it feels like it’s in the right place. Today there has been some winning and some losing. Some parts of this giant canvas feels like it’s done, some feels like a mess....
Journaling

Journaling

I’ve been journaling a lot lately,  scribbling and doodling in my sketch book. I’m working on faces and colour.  I finally have time to getback in the studio over the xmas period so I can’t wait to move from the little book to the big canvas.  ...
I Can Fly

I Can Fly

I’ve been painting in the last little while. This image is an experiment on wings. Giving space to my work is unusual. But I like it. Its really unusual to see a canvas so bare. In real life this canvas is very textured, It has layers and layers and layers...
Trust

Trust

I sat quietly and just let emotions flow through me. It was an interesting exercise. To look at it  in real life it has much , much more texture and depth. here though, it looks a little flat. Part of my process lately has been very much to be in the present and allow...
My nest.

My nest.

How do you describe the distance left by years of separation. The kind of distance that doesn’t grow, but rather, still feels like the pain of that first moment of separation.  That emptiness, that feeling of something, some part of your body being ripped off...
I’m building a nest

I’m building a nest

Yes, that’s right, a nest. A great big giant empty nest. It’s an installation piece that is placed out on the foreshore while the tide is at its lowest point and then removed when the tide is coming back in. When I heard about it, I started thinking about...
Imagination or Inspiration?

Imagination or Inspiration?

Which is better? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately; which one is better to facilitate solid creative outcomes, the actual work. I flutter about, daydream and get distracted a lot. But 2015 is going to be the year of productivity! Are we better when we...
Summer Solstice Celebration

Summer Solstice Celebration

So, here we are, right smack bang in the middle of summer. So much has happened since my winter solstice. When we have big and profound events occur in our life, it gives us markers from which we measure time. Looking back, my journey from there to here, from dark to...