(or: How To Not Drown Your Creativity In The Details) Detail is important. If there weren’t subtle differences between the projects we create, they would all end up the same, and we’d be outpouring some homogenized version of our art over and over. More like a robotic conveyor belt than [...] Read more »
What If We Started All Over Again?
There are times we’re so buried in the thick of our lives that we lose focus of what’s important, what we actually need, what enhances our lives, and what holds us back. So much seems to call our attention, drain our time, seduce us into thinking it’s the-most-essential-thing-in-the-world-ever-and-if-we-don’t-attend-to-it-right-now-very-bad-things-will-happen, that we [...] Read more »
7 Creative Questions: An Interview with Wood Carver Robyn Gordon
7 Creative Questions is an ongoing series of interviews with everyday creative artists. Today’s artist is Robyn Gordon. Robyn, would you like to introduce yourself and your artwork? Hi Dan. I am an artist living in South Africa and I work with wood which I carve into totems and panels, [...] Read more »
7 Reasons You Can’t Afford NOT To Find Your Creative Tribe
For most of us who create, the majority of our artwork is created in isolation. This is what we need to get focused, to find our flow, to be able to pour out all that’s smouldering inside us desperate to be released into the world. It’s so much more difficult [...] Read more »
How To Fill Your Creative Life With The Joy Of Happy Accidents
Have you heard of Happy Accidents? If not, here’s a simple explanation: You know those times when you’re creating with a very specific aim with a project, and you can envision exactly how you want it to turn out? Then something goes a little wrong, you make a mistake, you [...] Read more »