Resourceful Art

Artists and Creatives – Do you think you are resourceful when it comes to creativity? It’s a very broad question and one which can be interpreted in many ways. The reason I came up with this topic is that I recently fractured my dominant hand and have struggled with trying to make work with a

A Promise

Hope and anticipation are the words for January for me, the hope of the brighter days ahead being full of art, laughter, fun and the promise of an end to the pandemic. I think we all need to hang on to the promise of things to come.. It’s the same with creativity as there’s always

Winter Solstice

As winter winds surge across the landscape so does the feeling of turning our backs to the cold, the dark and hunkering down with our friends and families. It always makes me concerned about the people who have no-one to share Christmas with and these past few years have probably been the worst yet. Yet

Creative Freedom

What does the phrase ‘Creative Freedom’ evoke in you? I suppose that each and everyone of us has a different response because creativity is so subjective, it lends itself to so many perceptions of meaning its difficult to put into any given explanation. Also creative freedom can come in different guises not only art related

Time to Shine More!

I have just completed the very informative and enjoyable course with Alice Sheridan the ‘Time to Shine’ course, who also hosts the fab Art Juice Podcast. The course is a two week bite sized daily prompt to encourage a greater presence online and to meet other artists and creatives to develop their potential to show

Creative Tools

Writing here over the last months has been deeply influenced by the situation that we have all been part of and I suppose it’s only natural that happened, so I want now to get back to what this blog is supposed to address. My thoughts about writing are a sharing of ideas, techniques, tools and

Slow Down Time

Its taken time to get to this point, a point where time separates and finds its own rhythms. Its taken time during this global crisis to appreciate time as not a commodity to be used for achieving and striving forward for its own sake. Time is a precious gift to be savoured, appreciated and to

Humdrum

I haven’t posted for a little while as things have been just well – a bit slow, or the other way of saying it is stagnant with a hint of apathy. I’ve been going through a sort of uninspired and humdrum existence over the last few weeks, have you felt like this? The pandemic has

Art Thinking or Process?

Creative process – what does this mean to you? What’s the connection between spontaneous creative process and creative thinking? Is there a connection? These questions have been milling around in my head for a while now as being an artist my work is based on spontaneity and intuition and they are a driver in my

Long Live the Arts!

Anticipation or trepidation – which are you? The news is on everyones lips the end of lockdown – well, as we have known it for the last few months at least. The feelings and anxieties that we all have had for so long maybe at long last start to dissipate and we can start to