off grid, off line is liberation
As I sit in a rustic sea side cabin on a tiny island I’m very aware of the weather. It shifts and changes so rapidly at times, a squall moving through and frothing up the sea and sky, waves crashing wildly onshore. It looks and feels like the storm might stay tumultuous forever.
Sometimes the winds settle in for days at a time and I wonder if it will ever be calm again.
And then…...a clearing, a settling and all is calm.
I’ve noticed similar patterns over the the 20+ years I’ve been actively creating and selling my art. There are times of immense flowing creativity and huge waves of output…wondering if and when this flow will end, wondering if my work is any good, what creations will be here to see when the storm is over. Then, a lull in the action. A calming, a time for reflection, critiques and refinement of the work.
The weather feels exactly like my creative process.
Creator and critic. Calm and storm. Asserting and retreating. A time and place for all of it.
I’ve learned a lot about the cycles of creativity, indeed of life itself. The fears, doubts and pain AND the joys and feelings of aliveness in my creative process.
It’s taken time and intentional work for me to learn to trust the flow.
I wonder:
Do you understand and notice the cycles of your own creativity so that you can relax and embrace all of the stages of the process?
Would you like to understand, accept and enjoy all the “weather” patterns of your creative path so that you can create whatever and however you want?
Do you want to get to know AND befriend your inner critics (yes there’s usually more than one) so that you can feel free to create whatever the heck you want?
Do you want to feel safe to fail so that you can ultimately succeed and create art that brings you alive?
I’d love to show you what I've learned over many years and what I intimately understand about exploring the edges, trying new things and adventuring forth with an open mind about the creative process.
When to push further and when to let things rest, how to dance with it so that you can learn to trust yourself to take risks, going “beyond the edge” of your own creative comfort zones. In this way you can also make your own art that frees your soul and spirit, so that you can feel empowered to create paintings that really speak to you, and that feel like an authentic expression of you and no one else.
So that your paintings and journal pages have the colours, textures, imagery that you love, even if you don’t totally understand it. So that your art is a reflection of you, your experiences, your preferences, your beliefs. So that you feel authentically aligned with your creations.
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