Creative or Crazy?
Creative or Crazy?
Malformed or Beautiful?
Malformed or Beautiful?
Is this a tree? It doesn’t look normal. Its roots are where its trunk should be.
Could this indeed be the Tree for Our Times?
It shouldn’t
The Nature of Nature
Tag Archives: inspiration
Texture Breathing
What is the Texture of the South?
Why oh why do I love this gate so?
Art is Everywhere (if you quiet your mind to see it)
and here’s a Little Poetry Challenge for You
I feel a niggling guilt about my maintenance of Things.
Do you know what I mean?
‘Things’ are not where my energy goes.
Creativity, care, creatively caring for people, inspiration, respect, art therapy, cultivating gentleness and kindfulness in the world. These are some of the places and spaces I prefer to focus on, given the chance.
The peeling paint wall outside my sweet rented workplayspace is one of those Things calling for attention.
Mostly I have a very un-grownup ostrich strategy of filtering it out. Mostly I don’t see…I don’t actively look….at such niggly naggy Things if I can help it.
Do you know what I mean? (reprise)
One day
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
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
You Need Not Feel Alone in Your Creativity
Support is at hand
Could you do with a trusty consultative companion by your side?
Qinka – Creative Spirit has found her Owl. She didn’t know she needed one until it/he/she turned up in an op shop.
Qinka and her Owl Companion
Sally Swain © original art
This Owl does not yet have a name.
Please can you help us name Qinka’s owl?
You can leave a suggestion in the comments box below, or the speech balloon above. We eagerly await.
NEWSFLASH! (late August, 2015)
We have a name for Qinka’s Owl. It is Qoot. Inspired by a raft of suggestions from Louise Jade. Thank you, Louise.
And in a spectacular turn of events, aligned with the Creative Love Exchange,
What do you wish to create?
Once in a blue moon…
‘Once in a…’ I just happened to have previously created this blue moon (with leopard?!) paintage and couldn’t resist sharing it with you today.
Sally Swain © original art
Friday 31st July is a blue moon night. In case you’re unsure of the conventional definition, a blue moon is
Be A Mused. Be Very A Mused.
Dad and me and creativity
Do you have a muse? Many ongoing muses?
Who or what inspires your creativity?
Dad and me
My original muse was my Dad, David Swain. Dad made a life of writing, cartooning and mentoring other creative sparks.
His first book, The Cantbeworried Tales, came out when I was seven. He gently satirised Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in cartoon and verse. This little book made a big impact on his world and mine.
The Cantbeworried Tales
David Swain’s first book
When I was eleven,
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