Creative Doctors. Cool. Like the sound of that.
So many doctors (and definitely nurses) I’ve encountered over the years have rich creative juices flowing in their scientific veins. They don’t
Lichen Love. (Like n Love?) The Mindful Kindful Texture Walk
How to bring yourself into the present, even for a microsecond? And feed your creativity at the same time?
One approach is to go for a texture walk. What’s that? If I happen to be walking anyway, I attempt to find a tiny space of light amidst the VeryClutteredBrain by practising specific mindfulness. It helps to focus on a something.
Paperbark
(Melaleuca)
I love the texture of this messy, soft, papery Australian tree
I might say to myself:
From where I am (here) up to that park bench (over there), I’ll bring my attention to textures. Or shapes. Or light and shadow. Or colours.
It’s not unlike playing ‘ Continue reading
Is this OK? A bit of trumpet blowing?
The wonderful Val Andrews interviewed me.
Via the miracle of Skype, we chatted intimately across the miles and miles of ocean between Australia and England.
Talking of oceans, Val sails a proud boat of creativity. She paints, prints, writes, mentors.
Her book, ‘Art for Happiness – finding your creative process and using it’ comes highly recommended.
So now for the tricky bit.
Is it OK to share the interview with you? Do I dare?
Am I blowing my own trumpet? Well, yes, I guess.
I tentatively make my brassy sounds in the hope that they…
do be do be daa daa…
might inspire and fire your own creativity, whether it’s in a Big Band Glen Miller parp parpeedoo way, or a little lone trumpet on a soulful pink hill fweee way.
Let yourself express your unique YOUness.
Interview with a Creativity Coach & Art Therapist
Here’s the link to Val’s website
and to the interview on her blog.
How to Access Your (Already Abundant) Creativity 5
A Flower Power Point Presentation
to be viewed one blossom at a time
Part Five:
It Takes Two to Tango
Tango is a passionate, red and black dance. Tango is dramatic, with flair and flourish. It involves two people subtly, finely attuning to each other’s every move.
The Sauce of Life
Sally Swain © original art
Creativity can be a
Art and Soulie Spot 2
Stories from the Creative Path
Introducing…the woman who listened to the sky…
the multi-talented…
Linda Neil
The woman with roses growing out of her brain
Linda Neil original art
In her own words:
the woman who listened to the sky: living locally with love and gratitude
At the beginning of 2014, after many hectic years studying, writing, performing and travelling, changing health circumstances indicated my life needed a complete overhaul.
Without any clear idea about
Two Witches Speeding Slowly Across the Harbour in a Claw-Footed Bath
Why the weird title?
and
What comes to you when you hear the words ‘creative’ and ‘ageing’ together?
Last week
we took a peek
at middle age artiness.
This week
we open a conversation about creativity in old age.
How do we get creative around the ageing process?
The good ship Arts and Health Australia
recently launched its Celebrate Creative Ageing conference in Sydney.
I had the good
Middle-aged Crazy Art Lady
What will YOU do on your artist date?
So I’m in the middle of a national park, in the middle of a bad hair decade. Decade.
I can’t avoid the fact that I’m a Middle-aged Crazy Lady wearing baggy pants, collecting plastic junk fragments from the beach. Plastic junk fragments.
Not to throw away, like any Sensible Middle-aged Crazy Lady does, but to PLAY with, as any Unsensible Middle-aged Crazy Art Lady does.
Plus oyster shells, seaweed and string. Treasures.
Beach Mandala
plastic, shelly, junky, funky, probably smelly and washed away by now
A gaggle of teenage girls walks past and
How to Access Your (Already Abundant) Creativity 4
A Flower Power Point Presentation
to be viewed one blossom at a time
Flower Power Point Number Four
A Little Encouragement Goes a Long Way
Daffy and Friends *
Sally Swain © original art
The word ‘encourage’
comes from ‘courage’,
which comes from ‘coeur’ (French for ‘heart’).
I love knowing this.
It speaks to me of the courage required to brazenly or tiptoe-ishly move in the direction of our dreams.
The Inaugural Art and Soulie Spot
Stories from the Creative Path
Introducing….Clache Raong
How exciting! Clache is our Inaugural Art and Soulie sharing her creativity story with us in the Art and Soulie Spot.
We hope to inspire you to begin or continue on your own creative journey.
The delightful Clache appeared in Creative Heart playshop series a few years back, bringing with her an irrepressible sense of wonder as she danced through the ups and downs of creativity … and life.
She discovered plasticine (modelling clay-type-stuff) hiding at the bottom of the art trolley. She began to paint with it. As a creativity coach, I have the privilege of seeing an endless variety of approaches to art materials and processes. Each creator and creation is unique.
But for me, this joyful act of Painting with Plasticine was new – a revelation!
Painting with Plasticine
Clache Raong
Painting with Plasticine
(detail)
Clache Raong
In Clache’s words…
The Joyful Art of Grieving
Joy? Grief? Huh? How do these fit together?
Let’s look at Hiromi Tango’s work.
Nature/Nurture (Green) 2015
Hiromi Tango
neon and mixed media
This wondrous, brave artist threads together
loss, wool and plastic
to create vivid sculptural installations.
Her current Sydney exhibition, Fluorescence, encapsulates Tango’s grief for her
Art and Soul Space 