Creating Art Around Life?
Since then, I've created four major shows and joined in many exhibitions (winning a prize or two along the way). All the while, I've blended a family, started area-wide art groups, remodelled houses, planned a wedding and welcomed grandkids.
Then, I owned (and closed) a business.
Now, I create abstracts paintings which is certainly an enormous challenge after a life of creating narrative realism. I'll share my secrets that can help you find ways to get into the studio to create art you love and yet have a real life with those you love!
on youtube
Therefore, I’ve slowed down my video production for now. Over 30 uploaded episodes reveal strategies and ways I’ve discovered for creating art around life. New episodes are uploaded as often as possible. Please join me there!
Is it ever Too Late?
Moving on from past choices is liberating. Taking daily incremental action nudges me closer to fulfilling my creative dreams.
Well-intentioned advice in my youth steered me away from my creative desires and into sensible careers.
Surprisingly, birth of my children re-ignited my passion to create art. Consequently, making coloured pencil portraits of my children birthed a fledgling portraiture business.
But then I had to pack up and return with my children to Kansas.
As a working solo-mum, I viewed each day as a chance to make a small step toward my creative aspirations.
Balancing a hectic life and creating art is tough...
but it can be done!
Pushing through obstacles and getting back into the studio to create meaningful art is a big part of who I’ve become in the past 30 years.
Check out my 60 posts (and counting) full of strategies and anecdotes about creating art around life.
How to create really distinct but cohesive work
How do you create really distinct new work that is cohesive with your earlier works? And, why make the effort to do this?
Hurly Burly-An Experimental Adventure
Hurly Burly, an experimental studio adventure explores an exhilarating interplay between tumult and tranquility.
Beverly Claridge Artworks Created from 2019 to early 2025
Here’s a complete list of my art works I made between late 2019 and March 2025. It goes along with the post, “The Best Thing for your Creativity in 2025”
I'm grateful I've been able to create art around a rich and challenging family life
-Playing my Korg Cross II Workstation
-Reading a Classic or Historical Novel
-Playing viola in the local Sinfonia
-Exercising and eating right