The Creative Instinct

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

Should we share our artistic talents more? I was prompted to ask myself this question after a visit to the remarkable Clocktower Art Gallery, which is sited in one of the Uk’s largest hospital complexes – Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital.
Photo by lizjones112
The Clocktower Gallery is not some [...]

Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity

The artist with good goals achieves more than the artist without. Simple as that. And there is no finer time than now to take a good look at what you would like achieve.

Photo by Michael Castielli
Now the dust has settled on the festivities it’s time to [...]

So 2009 is almost upon us and I guess you’ve already started thinking abut the new artistic successes you’d like to achieve.
Stop.
Whether you want to improve on a poor year or build on a great one, you need to review. As the saying goes – knowledge is power. Investing just half an hour of today [...]

It’s so easy to shut down the artist in you at this time of year. We box away our artistic imagination, tape the lid shut and leave well alone until Christmas and the New Year are over and done.
Then the majority of us jump on the crazy merry-go-round of shopping, visiting, eating, drinking and partying, [...]

You owe it to yourself to make the most of your talent.
Yet so many talented artists – artists producing excellent art – never manage to successfully promote and sell their artwork. Fear, poor organisation and lack of knowledge about how to properly market artwork all play their part.
It really doesn’t have to be that way. [...]