Paint BIG and Dream BIG

A couple of years ago I did a wonderful painting course with an artist, tutor and mentor - Angela Murray. It had been years since I had done any painting.  Although I love art! I'd done art at school and was one of the top students in my class. 

BUT - more recently I'd been saying to myself "Oh I will get into my art once I have a studio.. because I need somewhere to make a mess and I don't have that kind of space where I live right now."

Well after doing Angela's course over a period of about 8 weeks - I found myself saying "Why had I ever stopped?"  It didn't matter whether I didn't have the right space or not.  Or that I didn't have the ideal little studio out the back of a little cottage - the place that exists in my dreams. The place where I long to be living one day.  What mattered more than anything was that I was doing it. Now! That I was being creative.  That was what mattered the most.  

I found myself coming back to a place of peace, finding my equilibrium, my centre of being. I remembered how I had felt the last time I was emersed in doing my art and craft and stained glass windows. At peace, and being creative, making things and loving the process, loving the colour and loving the mess.

So since then, I've been painting at my dining table and tidying up afterwards! 

From Angela's course, I did complete a big canvas which is now hanging at my sister's place and it's a joy each time I go over to see it again.  I now have more paintings in my house which I have done since doing that course.  I will share these in further posts.

What else has happened is that I recognised how I needed to be creative in more than one way. Since then I have been doing creative writing courses and a lot more reading. All of this I will write about in this blog.  It's feeling exciting.  I've turned a corner.

Our lives are works of ART! 

In our process of being creative, we can find ourselves.

I have found that if we try to grasp for happiness it can elude us... BUT if we are still and at one with the natural flow of our creative lives then happiness will alight upon us.  May this be true for you too. 

Cheers. 

Photo (Left to right - Kristi Shaw, Angela Murray, and ME!)