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red – rouge – rot – rosso – rojo
I am having a love affair with red at the moment. Maybe it’s a winter thing. As I indulge myself cruising around artstack, pinterest, and the bulging folders of artworks on my hard drive – works saved...
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salmon-mind and stream-ing
Reflections on creativity, flow, and the not-always-gentle art of unlearning. Invitations – via courses, retreats and workshops – to “learn how to be in creative flow” are as ubiquitous as those...
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immaculate imperfection
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. – Salvador Dali The Kintsugi Cup At the juncture of Perfection and imperfection, Lays Immaculate Imperfection. There, even the wounded and...
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just DO!
Eva Hesse I belong in the age group that witnessed the rise and the too-short shining of the star that was Eva Hesse: she was w-a-y outside the box right from the start. If Paul Cézanne was the “father...
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how was it for you?
I’ve been reading a great post from Maria Popova at brainpickings about the moment we recognise we are fated to become artists. How does one become an artist — not in a practical sense, not by some...
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Dogen on painted cakes and hunger. Again.
A recent online conversation with a friend brought up our observations of the way so many folk in the ‘spiritual field’ feel that it’s somehow wrong to have a passion to create, or be interested in,...
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Pigments… from ancient recipes to ‘modern’ colours
Originally posted on in bed with mona lisa: I first discovered the PIGMENT store in Tokyo on the web… it arrived one morning in my daily Flavorpill (thank you guys by the way you do an awesome job of...
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the alchemy of creativity
As artists … we make artwork as something we have to do not knowing how it will work out. – Agnes Martin Just when I began to doubt that I would ever write again on this blog – it being many moons...
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soulstice bowl
I've never been drawn to ritual, even though my relationship with objects borders on the metaphysical. But my soul bowl, a container with an unforeseen ability to speak into my heart and elicit its...
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small holes in the silence
There are very few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing. - Ralph Hotere I was still very young and totally naive about "art" when I first met Ralph Hotere's work head on....
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a hunger for eternity
I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. [...] - Mary Oliver, on what it takes...
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slow down, feed soul
When I began to paint and create my art, I did not know where I was headed as an artist. Yet what remained important to me was that I was beginning my calling as a painter. After I began painting and...
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In bed with… Ochre
Originally posted on in bed with mona lisa: Ochre? Ocher? I’ll choose the first spelling… No offense intended, ochre is simply more visually pleasing to me, in all probability only because it’s the...
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