Creating of any kind takes you on many wonderful adventures and fills you with such excitement that you want to immediately jump into a new or existing project and just keep going, powering on. Days when ideas flow easily and you know that this is the right path for you. Equally there can be [...]
Recently my long time friend Jai Waters and I released a book on how to affect positive change in your life. It’s called MORE LEMON: How to transition to a life with more Zest and details can be found on our site. In the book we talk about the importance of having a support [...]
Watching the Olympic games in Brazil I was again reminded of what elite athletes can teach us as artists and creatives, about life in general. As we go about our life, practice and business there are many important things that we, like athletes, need to consider in order to live and create – building [...]
Earlier this year I contributed to an article on ArtsHub called the Seven habits of mind that will boost your arts career. Metalsmith and lecturer, Simon Cottrell, feminist organiser Karen Pickering, community cultural development practitioner, Susie Waller, and myself were interviewed and asked what behaviours and attitudes help artists to excel and survive in [...]
As we move into a new age, a new way of thinking, creativity and innovation have become the ‘buzz’ words of the decade. We are moving from an economy and a society built on the logical, linear, computer-like capabilities of the Information Age to an economy and a society built on the inventive, empathic, [...]
