Can you see a face?
Resurgence
Art and Soulstice
Sally Swain © original art
It’s time for my very own Art and Soulstice.
What does that mean?
It means
The Woman in the Moon
Author Archives: Art and Soul Creativity Coaching since 1993
Make art, even if your wings
Wing-ear woman
Sally Swain © original art
little watercolour painting from art journal, created while listening on the phone
Even if you’re grumpy,
make art.
Especially if you’re grumpy, make art.
Even if you’re grumpy, make art
Sally Swain © original art
You might find a seed in your chest
or a leaf in your claw.
I come home
Vividly lighting up the bodymind
How very art therapy
They are still setting up for opening night of Vivid when I’m on my way to Sydney Writers’ Festival. One sculpture captivates me.
I see drawn outlines of the human body, with words written inside.
Write, I mean, right, up my alley.
a Vivid artwork pre-lighting
check out the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background
On closer inspection,
New eyes, anyone?
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
(I’ve always loved this quote)
I head into town for a publishing seminar called Forest for the Trees. It’s a collaboration between NSW Writers’ Centre and Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Forest for the Trees
Sally Swain
art journal page-in-progress
This is kind of
Should I risk it?
Blanket State Meant
Exactly one year ago, it was exactly one year ago.
Get to the point, Sally. You’re hedging.
Sally’s childhood eiderdown
Exactly one year ago
You do not have to be good
I’m not one for quoting poetry. I’d kind of like to be, but I’m not.
Using up the paint on the brush
Sally Swain play-in-progress
My Dad was, but I’m not.
Some people have a perfect, poignant poetic morsel for every occasion, but
Oh give me a home
where the Art and Soul roam,
where the handcrafted miniatures play…
part of a woven artwork by Margot Turner
…where silence is heard
in the tweet of a bird…
ceramic by Pru Jobling
drawing by Cate Dudley
…and the city stress scuttles away.
(to the tune of Home on the Range)
bottles from Stresa, Italy; pebble carvings from Oamaru, NZ;
bone carving from NZ
I escape
Happy blogday
How might I help you make a commitment to YOUR creativity?
I would indeed like to.
Fruity Dreaming Mandala
Sally Swain © original art
vision for the year
It’s been two years of Friday snippets and snoppets.
Two years of shaping
Restoring Wonder to Our Lives
Wonder.
Where did it go?
Ceramics in Schools
coordinated by
Kristyn Taylor
for exhibition:
Human – The Child Artist Response Project
We most likely had a bucket-load of this magical curiosity-and-amazement stuff when we were children. The world was an intriguing place of potential. A cardboard
Art and Soul Space 