:: day one, getting started again... ::

journalling is helpful for me

 I don't usually have a problem getting started on new projects...I have lots of things unfinished - UFOs, yes indeed.

form drawing

 But...getting me into art again has been a very slow, painful, protracted process. I had made up so many reasons/excuses/beliefs about why I wouldn't start, yes indeed.

more form drawing

I've been reading lots about creativity and motivation, talking lots about how to get started, visiting shows and openings, talking to artists -heck I've even attracted artists for close friends and neighbours (!!) and everything I read or hear seems to say the same stuff to me - only I can do this, only I can choose it, only I can want it enough to make it happen. And if I practise it daily, or as near to as I can, then magic will happen...

Here's to magic and making a daily practise of creating seriously happen...

new moon in aries

and what a good time to begin a new initiative...
...last year I studied the Certificate III Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at Byron Bay Regional Comminity College, Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia, and was inspired by the many ways I found art beginning to touch me.  I spent a dedicated year turning over rock after rock and finding much I'm wanting to investigate further.
...this year I am now in Northern Hawke's Bay, NZ, on a tiny farmlet, just us, no college down the road, no village of people all around...now we have cows and sheep and possums and fantails and kereru for company.  This year I've chosen to study the Certificate in Rudolf Steiner Education part-time as a support to my development as a home educator to our young daughter.
I intend to post my art life here.