Streamlining…

Hi there! Apologies for the long time away but changes are coming—streamlining to focus on art and creativity in a brave new world, one full of more and more beautiful awareness in the midst of all sorts of chaos. I began this blog six years ago and in that time so many things have happened. I began teaching art and doing it with one basic rule—that we’d look for the good and nurture it. We let go of product—this was drawing for the purpose of discovery. We went where we’d never been before—week after week. Everyone became more free, more confident and crazier! It was humbling and beautiful. I wrote a book about it —The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind. Many thanks to Findhorn Press for publishing!

Then the book took me to London where I did two workshops, in March and September, and met some wonderful people. It was great to see how people shed the old stories of themselves so quickly through drawing together in new ways. Drawing is an ancient, primal way to communicate—there for all of us. Workshops followed here in the States. Super fun.

Other things happened. I was invited to make my Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company paintings into a series of cards for an international center for peace and justice. The cards were sent to people working for peace and justice all over the world. Simple yogic messages, a little humor, amazing distribution which I could not have managed myself. It has made me think differently about how art can move beyond fixed product and how ideas move into the world.

I also got to write for a bunch of magazines and The Huffington Post.

Which brings me to now. I’m writing more about how we can all be artists of transformation. Art is about possibility—that’s the fun and the power of it. Making art changes us as we discover more about who we are and envision new possibilities. When we grow, so does our world. In September, anyone who’s interested can subscribe to my new ART LETTER—food for the new creativity, like a bagged lunch for a road trip to a brave new world.

This site is meanwhile going through a transformation. Bear with me. You’ll see the changes happening before your eyes! I’m streamlining. Same url—just cleaner, simpler, stronger.

And, for all those who have been kind enough to write and ask, I’ll soon announce a new fall workshop—here in Boston. Check back mid-August!

Meanwhile, hope you’re enjoying summer—fresh food and air, sunshine, water, friendship, fun! A little sweating. All great and necessary on the creative journey!