In this feature, each month artists share one thing that excites them creatively.
One key piece to support healthy, productive creativity is stimulating inputs. What kinds of things stimulate the creative centers of the brain? What kind of inputs stimulate us visually? Emotionally? Spiritually? Mentally? Physically?
I’d really like to know, what’s one thing that fills your creative cup? Share with us in the comment section below.
What Inspires You?
Danila Rumold
Trekking through the mountains, amongst the shaded forests, alongside the babbling rivers, and looking down into the crystal clear glacier lakes, I can experience moments of quiet and mental stillness. In this space, connected to Nature, my creativity flows, speaking my unshakable truth.
Danila Rumold
What Inspires You?
Cecilia Power
So many things inspire me, breathing, flowers, blue skies, a blade of grass, the list could go on ad infinitum! In my work, I see elements of nature, often obscure to anyone but myself. When I can, I give homage to nature in as clear a manner as possible for my chosen muse. It is not often easy to make pretty like I would like, it is complicated! One brush stroke with my knots takes hours, it is like I am painting in slow-mo! When I get something just the way I want it, ooh how satisfying to the spirit!
Cecilia Power
Like Celia, I love taking a lot of time to do my art. It fills me up to totally get into my process and not feel like I’m in a rush…to follow my own natural pace in doing it 🙂
Light, the way it is or isn’t playing across an object, face, landscape or cloud. I am trying to really see what it does to the thing it shines on. I marvel at how it has traveled across space and time to illuminate one single object, an apple, and makes it visible. That’s what I try to show in the things I paint. How to make the light shine through my paintings.