As artists we can choose to create perfectly engineered walls that follow a safe, predictable, tried and tested formula, and that will stand gloriously underwhelming and uninspiring for years. The alternative is to create with a spirit of experimentation and adventure. To explore and discover the walls that already exist [...] Read more »
Just Three
Most of us have too much. Which drowns out, confuses, and distorts what’s actually most important to us. So what if, instead, you had just three in your life? Just three pairs of shoes? Three T-shirts? Three books? Just three colours of paint? Three notes on a piano? Three pages [...] Read more »
Showing Up, Immersing, Reaching Deeper, Holding Longer
How regularly do you create? How deeply? It’s easy to measure and relay how much time we spend creating, whether it’s five, 10, 30, 90 minutes a day or more. We can write down the numbers. But when we present these numbers on its own, they’re next to meaningless, because [...] Read more »
Return To The Mat
In my daily yoga practice, for most poses I remain fully within the mat. The edges of the mat are the edges of my world. I take great strength and focus from knowing these boundaries. Sometimes though, a pose requires me to stretch part of my body beyond the edges [...] Read more »
Leave The Door Ajar, Let The Beauty Slip In
Whatever, and however we create, there will always be a natural evolution of our work. Biologically, our cells are being replaced at a rate of millions per second, and just as we’re not exactly the same person day after day – and as new experiences shape us – our art [...] Read more »
Time Travellers
Forget any notions of time travel inherited from science fiction. You have your very own time machine whenever you need it. When you stop to focus on the intricate details of life – the exquisite symmetry of a flower’s petals or the sunset blush of clouds – the world stands [...] Read more »
The Explorers
Being creative is not just about being an artist, and making art. Being creative is also about being an explorer. Exploring, and finding, new pathways to yourself. Pathways to the deepest, wisest, richest parts that have always been there waiting within you. Exploring, and finding, new pathways to others. Reaching, [...] Read more »