How to creatively respond to fear?
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Author Archives: Art and Soul Creativity Coaching since 1993
What Makes the Soul of a Nation?
I challenge you to write a list.
Neurocosmos
Sally Swain
© original art inspired by Radio National program ‘All in the Mind’
Take heart. Make art.
How to respond?
Purple Heart
Sally Swain
© original art
transforming grief through creativity
How to respond to trauma, sorrow and fear
with creativity, authenticity and respect?
How to heal our hearts enough to move into action?
How to collectively create a compassionate world in testing times?
Ohh. Big questions.
Very big.
Too big, perhaps.
Here’s how one
Tender Agenda
R U OK
in the wake of the US election?
Tender Agenda
Sally Swain © original art
I painted Tender Agenda in
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Self-fullness? Huh?
Temenos Vision
a treasure map
conjuring up what I wanted to invite into my Art and Soul Creativity Coaching practice in my then new space; a space which has been
called the Temenos Centre since mid 1980s
Feed your soul. Create the space
to dream with paint. It’s not a race.
I love the
Divine Hoot
Confession: I fear earnestness.
Creative Wellspring fragment
I don’t mean seriousness. I can be as serious as anyone.
How to define earnestness? I don’t know. I think I mean
Flower Beyond the Edge
Flower is a noun and a verb.
Flower Beyond the Edge
Sally Swain © original art
The paintage (paint plus collage) arose in response to concern about
Clouds of Hope
Clouds get bad press.
Some Clouds Paint Their Own Sunshine 1
Sally Swain © original art
contributed to Hope Postcard Art Exchange
Why is that? I enjoy sunshine and blue sky like the rest of ‘em, but why the doomy gloomy assumptions?
Cloudy day = misery.
‘Her face clouded over’ = negative thoughts.
‘Lovely day, isn’t it?’ = sunshine and blue sky.
My question to you :
What’s wrong with a cloud or two, or three or ninety?
What’s wrong
Dig it!
Archaeology of the Art Heart
I forgot.
I forgot what came before.
That’s the trouble with layers.
That’s the trouble with life.
You pile on the paint and collage. One layer. Another layer.
Night Flying Work
Sally Swain © original art
excerpt
You live one moment. You live the next twenty billion moments. You don’t remember every little detail of every little stage.
You forget
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