Many of us conflate our creativity with our productivity, maybe even over compensating for the popular view of artists as lazy and...

First published May 31 2019 When making art, moments of grace sometimes occur, little shots of the miraculous when something ineffable...

first posted May 2019 This week I was invited to be Eric Maisel's guest blogger on Fine Arts America https://ericmaisel.com/2019/04/26/bi...

first posted April 17th 2019 A man will enjoy today what exasperated him yesterday, wrote Jean Metzinger. I would add, and vice versa. On...

first published April 2nd 2019 "The life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the...

Thinking positively, and thinking negatively don’t always do what they say on the tin. We might over focus on the torment, always...

first published March 5th 2019 It’s a month since I last wrote my blog; I missed the last fortnightly post. What happened? I got caught...

first published February 6th 2019 I was coaching someone who experiences waves of nausea while making work. He’s hard working, dynamic,...

first published January 2019 I like to call it determination. When I was in my mid twenties there was an event that confirmed the...

first published November 21st 2018 “The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to...

first published November 2018 I wrote before about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ideas on flow, with his diagram indicating that it occurs...

first published October 24th 2018 More than one client has complained to me about the problem of having too many ideas. Each time I have...

first published October 10th 2018 Thursday morning, last week, one of my teaching days, was spent giving a presentation to year 2 art...

first posted September 2018 Re-introduced to Maria Popova’s wonderful Brain Pickings, I subscribed to her Sunday digest – a labyrinth of...

first published September 11th 2018 There were aspects of my upbringing that supported my freedom to create. I grew up with a lot of...

first published August 2018 I blame creativity coaching. In an exercise, as a coaching student, where we co-coached on the topic of our...

first published August 14th 2018 It’s been a busy time; I’m preparing for an exhibition, having learned basic InDesign skills after a...

first published August 2018 When I was a fourth year art student, I worked on the balcony in the Mackintosh at Glasgow School of Art...

first published July 2018 I love the aspect of painting that allows me to feel self reliant and free in making decisions. When the part...

first published July 2018 Last week I wrote about jealousy and envy. Dipping into my metaphorical postbag, I notice that the original...