Do you want to create art you love?
I'll help you find ways to get into the studio to create meaningful art around a sometimes crazy and chaotic life!
I'm Beverly Claridge.
Creating art around life is how I’ve managed to make meaningful art I love, before, and after shifting to New Zealand over 20 years ago. 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!
Creating Art Around Life - YouTube
Creating art around life is a must for many of us who enjoy the chaos of a rich and eventful life with those we love. I’m now in a richly productive period in my studio finishing larger abstracts from the pursuit I began in 2023.
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.
‘Moving On’, a Significant Studio Conquest
‘Moving On’, a significant studio conquest and personal victory, arises from a year-long dive into abstraction, after a life-time of narrative realism. Moreover, overcoming problems encountered in making the series rewarded me with even greater confidence.
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.
I'm grateful I've been able to create art
around a rich and challenging family life.
I’m particularly blessed our home is now mostly restored and Invercargill studio is now being filled with over 52 new abstracts. When I’m not creating new abstracts or making videos to help others create art around busy lives, you might find me…
Playing my Korg Cross II Workstation
Reading a Classic or Historical Novel
Playing viola in the local Sinfonia
Exercising and eating right.
