A little while ago, I wrote a post which I called 10 Myths About Being a Creative Person. One person said that most of them were nonsense, and I entirely agree! A problem with the myths that I wrote about is that they were very prescriptive. They implied…
Like most self respecting grown ups, I am barely able to do anything without googling first. So some time ago, I googled what it meant to be a creative person. Perhaps I should have anticipated that I wouldn’t like what I would find! There seemed to be very…
Until recently, I’d never given much thought to the idea that as we age, we start to become invisible, mainly because it didn’t affect me. But more recently, I’ve started to notice it. I first became more aware of age related invisibility almost a year ago now, when…
It’s still only February, but here in my little patch of Norfolk there are signs of spring everywhere. We’ve had a very mild, very wet winter. Often it doesn’t start to feel like spring here until the end of March, and occasionally it will even be May before…
If there’s one thing that stands in the way of being creative more than anything else, it’s perfectionism. That horrible feeling that we’re going to get it wrong so often prevents us from even trying. We worry ourselves into paralysis, to afraid to make the first mark, the…
The idea of a sense of place, and how it differs to a sense of belonging, is a theme I’ve written about before. It was about 3 years ago, when I was researching Dorothy Caldwell and her work as part of a foundation course in textiles, when I…