London Diary 1

I’m just back from 9 days in London where I gave a drawing class for the press to promote my book. It was great fun and amazing to see what people can do when they approach drawing with an open mind. But mostly I’m thrilled when I see the great, positive energy that’s created [...]

Drawing Club

Just spent a week here in Boston with Thierry Bogliolo, of Findhorn Press, the publisher of my book, The Confident Creative.  Thierry lives in the south of France and I think we might have had warmer weather if we’d met there! (Wouldn’t that be nice?!) As it turned out, there were massive snowstorms in the [...]

Back in the Studio

Back in the studio after a few weeks designing websites—my new art site—www.catbennettart.com and a new site for my book (The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind)—www.theconfidentcreative.com.  It has made my head spin a bit, have to say. But now they’re up, still works in progress, of course, but you can [...]

Doing the New

Ah, the artist’s life—so many challenges and uncertainties!  I had a wonderful chat this morning with two artist friends about just that.  We work away and art always presents us with the brilliant challenge of going where no one else has gone. That’s thrilling but we never know what will happen later. Will we sell [...]

Thank You, Leonard Cohen

Last night Leonard Cohen played to a packed house at the beautiful old Wang Center in Boston and we were so very blessed to be there.  It’s hard to put into words the ways in which his very artfully constructed concert and presence brought tears to our eyes.  The music was brilliant—every single musician absolutely [...]

Who Does She Think She Is?

I went to see Who Does She Think She Is? at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square last night with my daughter. It follows several women artists, all of whom have children, and shows both the power of their work and the powerful struggles we face as women artists whether we’re mothers or not.  The [...]

Happy Day to the Artist Mother

At the Saturday morning drawing class Maggie, mother of four boys, presented me with this beautiful hand-stitched broach, a portrait of me she made from a blind contour drawing.  I’m so very touched by this gift and think I’ll frame it so I can see it every day  as it’s so full of life and [...]

Rex Ray

I was in Montreal with my daughter this week visiting my mother.  I sure didn’t expect to find this fantastic Rex Ray book but Montreal is a city that loves art.
I discovered Rex Ray last year when I bought a boxed set of cards produced by Chronicle Books with Rex’s art.  As you can see, [...]

Happy To Say…

I‘m very happy to say that my book, The Saturday Morning Drawing Club Manual, will be published by Findhorn Press in Spring 2010. Findhorn is a wonderful publisher interested in ideas about consciousness and social change. Books about art and creativity are new for them but I think it’s a great fit [...]

Drawing Class

On this cold, rainy day it seemed fitting to do another cloud collage.  I’m experimenting doing some with colored backgrounds now but I love how it was possible to just use scraps of other pieces of painted paper, cut them up and make them into these little collages.  Each person with their own little cloud [...]