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My grandfather’s paintbox
I have been contemplating trying watercolours again for a long time. (Trying new things always takes me a long time.) But what keeps stopping me is that the colours in the old painting tin that I inherited from my grandfather – an architect and talented […]
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Make Your 2016 Beautiful – Win Big!
To create is to live fully: To heal. To dare. To dream. To BE. This is what I believe. This is what inspires this site. My books. My art. All of my work. This is what I long to share with you. When I […]
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Bringing Images Down – A Reflection on the Creative Process
I have started painting again. Every time I find it is so hard to break through all the early falters, and finally birth new art. This is one of my first new paintings in over a year, Burning Woman… the lost archetype of the feminine […]
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Nurturing a Family Culture of Creativity
Welcome to Week One of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhoodby Lucy H. Pearce. Today’s topic is Nurturing a Culture of Creativity at Home. Do read to the end of the […]
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Blooming True
For those of you who are newer to the blog, you may not believe that before February 2012 I had not painted since school. Really. It’s blooming true! I was so convinced that I couldn’t paint, that when a friend suggest I start painting again, […]
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Changing Gear
We are changing gears. School is back tomorrow. And our littlest starts pre-school. Five mornings a week. Three hours a day. Can you believe it? I can’t! I genuinely never thought this day would come. I see the mornings opening up for me. I will […]
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Studio tour
Well as you know the painting is flowing again – so I wanted to bring you into my creative space to show you what I’m up to right now… HEALTH WARNING: The colours are BRIGHT and liable to lead to feelings of intense pleasure. My […]
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Colour me happy
I’m back painting again, and loving it. Did I ever tell you how much I love playing with colour? Ah yes, I did! What struck me yesterday as I was busy “getting stuck” was nothing less than a revelation. I’d heard it before. But never […]
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Shit or glory…
I have paint on my fingers again. And I am reluctant to wash them. I love looking like a Creative Rainbow Mama! It wasn’t easy. To get back into painting. But a friend wanted me to do a picture for a book cover. I had […]
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