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Category Archives: Creative Process
*The good thing about art is …
I’m ripping my way through a magazine, literally, seeking yummy shapes and textures for a collage. I chance upon this quote:
Language is very linear; you have to say one word after the other in order to get somewhere. The good thing about art is that you can say several things at the same time, in many different languages… but it’s still comprehensible.
I love it. I have to make a new collage featuring these words. String loops itself onto the page too – very non-linear.
Artlanguage Sally Swain collage
Red Girl Paves the Way
Art and Soulie Spot #3
stories from the creative path
Friends, creators, Art and Soulies, you have Sarah Gibson’s Red Girl to thank for the existence of one-on-one Creativity Coaching sessions.
The amazing Sarah came to one of my groups back in 1998. Her partner had recently died. She kept asking if I would sit with her while she painted. I wasn’t sure. I’d been running groups for several years, but was unconfident, shaky, shy and couldn’t
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
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
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