Art and Creativity
For me, art is a physical manifestation of the positive. Art is all around us; it in how we live every moment. It is in the life that we create for ourselves — in our homes and our gardens, in the way we dress, in the way we walk; in the way we communicate with others . . . And yes, art comes from my studio too.
Cherie’s Faerie Garden Studio is joy-filled and some would say enchanted. The artwork that comes from it is playful and whimsical. It is fun! There is most often some message with the pieces I create that encourages the positive – joy, laughter, love, play, magic, just to name a few of the messages. Each piece that I create is a reflection of me or part of my life. I work with clay, fiber and cloth/paper and I love playing with mixed-media.
Open Studio - My studio is open a couple of times a month for others to come and play too. I also give workshops from time to time. If you are interested in a fun, playful and positive creative adventure, email me at cheryl@quantumheartcoaching.com
An expression of the Creative Force
I encourage you to follow your creative impulse. We often become inspired by something we see in nature, read in a book or view on a video or on television. These small inspirations may make a big difference in how we understand ourselves or may make our lives better in some way.
The picture above is a good example; it is a page from my art journal. It came from a small creative ‘flash’. I had been intrigued by a TV commercial where a ’digitalized’ mountain fell apart into ’blocks’ that toppled down and over a car. About the same time, I also noticed how pictures on my computer sometimes distorted into digitalized sections. I was playing with the idea how sometimes I am all together, and sometimes not at all — as if I were a digitalized piece, you could see me in individualized small blocks where each block is colored separately and when seen together makes up a whole picture. Of course, the fun part was answering the question: “How to depict this?” I took an actual black and white photograph of myself, and photocopied making it much lighter than the original. Then I copied it on graph paper, followed by enlarging as needed. The process was fun and helped me to understand myself better. The page in my journal read, “My own pixellated self. Coming back into focused wholeness . . . not quite fully there and . . . coming!!!” After some encouragement from an artist friend, I had the piece mounted and entered it in a self-portrait show. It is titled, ‘A Page from My Journal’.
Art is an expression of who we are and what we have to say to the world. Just as when I/we make a picture too big on the computer and it becomes distorted into individual pixels; when I fill my life with too much stuff and things to do, I become distorted into small pieces that may fall. It was a good lesson!
