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An Artist’s Expression of You

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

There’s a certain fascination with what artists do. While the rest of us breathe to live, they create just as naturally and with the same necessity. What is an artist who does not create?

Man Carrying Large PaintingLook in the mirror. Maybe it’s you.

Are you frustrated? Sometimes irritable? Feel like something’s missing in your life? All signs you are looking for creative expression and may not see the need or the opportunity in your daily life.

I don’t have any training.

I don’t own a paintbrush.

I’m not artistic.

Trying to be what you perceive you are not is unsettling. But if you think all artists must know how to paint, let’s turn that notion up side down.

Artists create their vision into outward expression. They release what is inside of them and create the image in tangible form. We celebrate the artist who paints, who writes, who performs. That same artistic opportunity is available to all of us. Our medium for creation is our mind. Our canvas for creation is our life.

All artists begin with an image in their mind of what they want to create. Not knowing every brushstroke, or every word to use, or movement they will make in the creative process, they begin with an intention to manifest in physical form what can no longer stay within them.

You are a creative being, an artist of your own life. Express the image of what’s inside you. Imagine your life. Create your life. Celebrate the artist that you are.


“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.” Auguste Rodin

What Are You Creating?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Ask most people, "Are you creative?" and you'll probably get a puzzled look and a shrug. Artists are creative, and writers, and inventors. If you're not painting a picture, or writing a sonnet, or devising a mode of intergalactic travel, how creative are you?

Maybe it's the word, creative, that seems so intimidating. The idea of making something out of nothing, reminds us of the biblical connotation. Who are we to compete with a production like that?

But even artists, writers and inventors start with something. They begin with paint or clay, with words and their meanings, and with an infinite supply of what already is to create a new and different version.

Some of the most creative people I know do not wield paint brushes or pens. They are the problem solvers in the world. The tools they use are past experience and a way of seeing that is not obvious to most of us.

After spending most of the morning tinkering with the stereo amplifier that stopped working, my husband pronounced it "done." Not fixed, but its usable life was over. "That was a waste of time," he declared.

Not so. You learn something with everything you do, whether you classify it a success or not. He is a great problem solver because he's spent a lifetime experiencing what will and what won't work. His creativity lies in finding a solution or determining it's time to move on.

That's a skill everyone can master. As Einstein reminds us "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." The first step in fostering your creative mind is to step back and see the situation with different eyes.

Take a literal step away and do something totally unrelated. Take a walk, read a book, call a friend. You will come back with different eyes that may see something you missed before. Distance creates a new perspective.

If that doesn't work for you, question the assumptions you are making by being too close to the problem. Pretend you've just met someone and they are telling you about this same problem they are having. From the outside, looking in, what helpful suggestions would you offer to them?

Most of us can eagerly offer advice to other people because we are detached from the problem. Write down your ideas for them and then see how those suggestions would help you too.

Creativity thrives when the mind is free to wander. The subconscious mind, where all knowledge and our every experience is stored, has all the answers.

You are a creative being. What are you creating? A solution or a bigger problem?


Theodore Roosevelt

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