How inspired have you been in your creativity lately? Are you bursting at the seams with ideas and exciting possible projects? Or tired and disillusioned by a predictable regurgitation of the same old thoughts and (lack of) creative choices? Despite common phrases like “when inspiration strikes”, creative inspiration is not [...] Read more »
Off The Map
How often do you wander off the map? How often do you let all you’ve known and done before slip over the edge of the boat and into the water, and create something completely new, completely without precedent in your body of artwork so far? How does it feel to [...] Read more »
Hold Aloft Your Lantern – How To Reject All Your Goals And Sculpt A Beautiful Creative Life
Creative goals are usually about completing specific projects by a specific time. For example – “I want to finish the first draft of my new novel by the end of the year” or “I want to take a course in Ikebana and create my first six sculptures by the end [...] Read more »
Chasing Giants
In the past it’s been easy to gaze in awe at the giants of inspiration in our lives from the other side of a screen or newspaper – be they artists, activists or athletes. Now though, we have the ability not only to get closer to those we hold up [...] Read more »
How To Stop Your Creative Muse Walking Out And Cheating On You
There’s this old guy in the city who shines shoes. Maybe you’ve seen him. His name’s Nathaniel Brewster (The Third) and he’s always there on the same street corner between 8am and 10am every morning of every day, with his stool, his step, his rags and his bag, giving people [...] Read more »
If
If only you had more time. If only you had more talent. If only you had more motivation. But what if you just started with what you had? What if you just stopped thinking, worrying, analysing and started creating? What if you found you already had all you will ever [...] Read more »
Master Of Your Beautiful Kingdom
Sometimes when we’re lost in the day to day, we forget as artists that we have the freedom to create anything we wish. We are creators, and masters, of our own beautiful kingdoms. At any time of day or night, in less than a moment, a new line, stroke, step [...] Read more »