Every journey requires growth, and Cloud Gazing Creatives has been growing slowly over the last year. Jess and Emily are using the next twelve months to explore their ‘why’, the roots that gave them creativity and what they do now to maintain that creativity. Each month they will explore, from both rural and urban viewpoints, the themes and events that influence them and form the basis of the problem solving and critical thinking creativity that make them who they are.
How do we live a creative life?
Is there a secret to those who live a creative life? Authors such as Austin Kleon, Beci Oripin, Debbie Travis and Lynda Barry have tried to define it (see Jess’ Book Reviews). Artists and creators like Picasso, Tim Burton and Kurt Vonnegurt have tried to explain it and even Albert Einstein was questioned on how he became so brilliant. The answers are often vague, and almost always refer back to childhood and our upbringing within the world. Emily and Jess are going to attempt to explore and define the elements that have supported their creative life, with examples from their childhood and from today. Each month you can get exclusive bonus material if you subscribe to the CGC mailing list. Activities and exercises that bring these elements into your life will help develop your creativity and allow you to see the world differently.
People have asked us for as long as we can remember to explain how we became so creative. Some believe it is natural talent. Others assume intense training has honed our creativity. But we both believe, based on our lived experience, that everyone on the planet has the potential to be as creative as we are when they are offered the opportunity to explore the world in the way we did as children and do now as adults. There is no one secret that makes someone naturally more creative than another, only the path that we take to become creative. When people read about ‘Karen, the former account executive who now makes goat milk soap in her shed’ (good on you though Karen), or ‘Olivier, the former banker who paints watercolours in the Cotswolds’ (yay Olivier); it can become a bit depressing to think we must have prior wealth to be able to follow daily creative practice. This is not so. Creativity has its roots in our childhood, playing with crayons and finger paint and mud. It has it’s future in our connection with what moves us and in the chance to practice what we love everyday for ourselves not others. Join us for a year of ‘us’ and find out what makes us tick!
