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Hiraeth (Work in Progress)
Hiraeth: n. (Welsh) A spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. Nostalgia for ancient places to which we cannot return. It is the echo of the lost places of our soul’s past and our grief for them. It is in the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. It is nowhere and everywhere. So it’s been a while…
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Painting: That Time, SPA 2024 Finalist
Featuring in the Scottish Portrait Awards 2024. A painting started some time ago but finally finished only in February of 2024. When I started this I had no beard, now I have a beard. My three year old son refers to this picture as ‘Mr No Beard’. It has been hanging on the stair where we say goodnight to Mr…
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Creative Ideas As Currency: Growth for Artists In The Digital Economy
If content is currency, then artists, you are already wealthy. You have enough unique, interesting and useful creative ideas to turn into a wide range of quality output. In the newest incarnation of our evolving economy, content creation is the most valuable currency. Artists are the original content creators and you are sitting on a potential gold mine. Today we’ll…
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What is Shadow Work? Understanding The Hidden You
Excerpts selected from Chapter 1 of my book The Creative Shadow: An Art Therapy Shadow Work Journey are compiled in this post. If you register below I’ll send you a download link to the next chapter (PDF file) from the book. “Everything of which I know, but of which I am not at the moment thinking; everything of which I…
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Painting: Self Portrait
This painting has a rich personal history. It was a very important one for me and was an affirmation of my identity at a very difficult time in my life. There is something of me in it that is not in any other work. I generally don’t like painting self-portraits, but I hadn’t painted one in many years. I was…
Creativity and Self Development
