It is this.
Hobbity Place
And this.
(Dear ones – I am republishing this textures piece, as there were techhy glitches earlier. Apologies if you’re receiving it twice.)
Elf Platters
What is the Texture of Paradise?
Author Archives: Art and Soul Creativity Coaching since 1993
Extreme sport for me is stepping onto an escalator in a shopping mall
I said there’d be more about my Aotearoa NZ sojourn. And lo.
Kiaora!
Sally Swain’s mini artelogue journal
Smiley face snow-streaked mountain on a hot summer’s day. Can you spot the friendly mountain appearing in journal page above?
A Smiley Face Snow-Streaked Mountain
watched over the place I fell in love with,
Prepare to be subjected to the Land of the
Long White Blog unfolding itself across time and space.
Can you cope?
And what am I talking about anyway?
Remember the Resting-in-Abundance Tree from a couple of weeks back?
Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Sally Swain © original art
Well, it came to
Who’s the Dinosaur?
Then I had a week in which people from my long-ago world kept surfacing. In person, on social media; some were alive; some were not.
Emotions stirred, swirled, whirled.
I walked at night past an inner city shop – Dove and Lyre Fossils and Crystals. There was a dinosaur footprint sitting in the window.
Dinosaur footprint
in
Dove and Lyre shop
A dinosaur footprint?
Tree Trust
Part Three of a Treelogy
Here’s the
Resting-in-Abundance Tree.
Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Sally Swain © original art
It’s made of paint and beads on calico,
with a glitzy golden sequinned border,
an ounce of optimism
and a dollop of desire.
A Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Tree Love
Magic Close-up Tree 1
Part Two of a Treelogy
In my fifty-six year old world, I was horrified.
Tree Truth
This story straight out of the Creative Love Exchange
is Part one of a Treelogy
Tree Truth 1
A lovely Psychodrama person rings me from far yonder. She requests my arty input into a banner for this week’s Australia/NZ conference in Sydney.
I hum. I ha. I say
Oh Bowie Oh
Space Odditea.
That’s what I called my 2013 exhibition at
Beyond the Ordinary Teahouse. Surprise surprise – lots of teacups.
Would you like to see the painting I called ‘Space Odditea’? It’s never before been seen by non-Sally eyes.
If not now, when?
Space Odditea
Sally Swain © original art
I thought it wasn’t
Whatever you think of Eat, Pray, Love
(plenty of people go hohumm about this book)
(I boldly declare I like it),
you might enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert’s thoughts on the creative process.
I know I do.
Inspired by Summer Solstice
play-in-progress stage 1 Sally Swain original art
Maybe you’ll feel like gobbling, imbibing, EATING her words.
You might experience them as a PRAYER to creativity.
She might help you fall in LOVE
I wish you a JOYful New Year
Little Arty Joy Book
is an Art and Soul playshop coming up soon.
(See the Offerings page on this website)
Here’s a Fat Book of Positivity that helped to inspire it.
Fat Book of Positivity
Sally Swain and others
This was a frabjous art swap I engaged in
as part of the Art Therapy + Happiness 2015 Project.
Imagine.
Art and Soul Space 