Overcoming failure, mistakes & setbacks
Overcoming failure, mistakes, and setbacks: Analyse them to transform them into powerful boosts for your creative efforts
26/08/2023
Creating Art Around Life
Art, for me has always been created around the chaos of a rich and eventful life, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I share ways I’ve learned to prevail.
The challenge of printing with oil-based ink
Printing with oil-based ink is a huge change from my previous experience of monoprinting with water-based Inktense.
19/08/2023
Monoprinting with Inktense makes beautiful art
Monoprinting with Inktense on the most rigourously pretreated paper has produced my favourite abstract works so far. Solving problems increased creativity.
14/08/2023
How to make art when Life Gets Complicated
What do you do when life gets complicated and you don’t feel like you be making art anytime soon? Here’s practical ways to prevail.
06/08/2023
Allie Eagle, Artist, Friend and Mentor
I’m immensely grateful for my mentor and friend, the late Allie Eagle, a remarkable New Zealand artist, who passed away in May 2022.
14/05/2023
10 Things I did to love myself
I’ve learned the hard way that to care for and love myself is critical in the creative life! Particularly, when life throws a few spanners.
07/05/2023
When life gets in the way
When life gets in the way of creating art and I cannot get into the studio! Rotten floors took me out of the studio for a season.
29/04/2023
3 Keys to thriving in chaos
I’m sharing my 3 keys to thriving in chaos to make art in the studio during major home renovation.
12/08/2022
Hacked and permanently kicked off Facebook
Sadly, as anticipated, I’ve been hacked and permanently kicked off Facebook. even though I had two-factor authentication.
09/08/2022