Stuff Artists Talk About: Reflections on Creative Practice, Process + Studio Life

This blog is a space for my thoughts, reflections, questions and conversations around what it means

to be an artist, make art, sustain a creative practice and live life creatively.

Here I share honest insights from my own studio practice, alongside themes that regularly emerge through

my work with artists inside CREATIVE SHIFT (my annual course) and THE ARTHOUSE (my creative community).

You’ll find:
‘Studio Notes’ - my own reflections, observations and thoughts from the studio
‘Artist Notes’ - voices, experiences and reflections from artists within my communities

Together these posts explore creative process, artistic identity, play, materials, momentum,

creative blocks, intuition and the everyday reality of sustaining a practice over time.

Many of these posts also begin life over on Substack -

a slower space for deeper conversations and ongoing reflections from the studio and my community spaces.

I hope these words help you feel a little more connected to your own practice -

and remind you that you’re not alone in the questions you carry as an artist.

Scaling up artwork!

I was mindful of the tips I’d heard about scaling up in size, the brushes need to be larger, the marks need to be bigger, the paint needs to be mixed in larger quantities - and all of these tips were true. Although I knew this, it was still rather challenging to understand what it all really meant until I was actually practising it. One of my intentions this year was to go bigger and paint on a larger scale. Coincidently (is it ever really…?) a UK art supplier (www.loxelyarts

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