Catching Fireworks

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

Johnny Cash

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Have you ever looked at a parking meter, or a house front, or a cloud and seen a face?

This has a name - pareidolia, a “tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern or meaning wh...

I am delighted to be a guest on Art Talk on IGTV Live on Friday 23rd July at 7pm UK time with artists Marina Emphietzi, Jana Oliviera and Mazarine Memon.

Have you ever wondered what your favourite artists are up to when they aren’t creating their collections? These three artists hav...

I often write and talk about the importance of having a vision. This is really powerful and if you write it down, draw it, or make a mood board, you can read/look at your vision paper whenever you want.

But how can you keep it real, as they say, everyday? Particularly on a bad day?

One way is to...

I was asked this question recently.

The biggest difficultly comes if people think that I am going to give them the answers, create the plan and/or do the work for them.

Managing peoples’ expectations and explaining the difference between coaching and mentoring is a key part of my init...

People have asked what type of support I provide to creative professionals.

I work with people who are serious about making a change in their creative life, however big or small, and want to get into action. This could be through finding ways of working which supp...

In the confusion of what we can/can't, should/shouldn't be doing, this is a tool I have been using with some of my coaching clients during these times when it can feel that everything is out of your control. It might be of use to some of you.

Get a piece of paper and draw a circle in the ce...

Brad Kenny is an international contemporary artist, with works in collections in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Russia.

With an MA in Fine Art from the University of Chichester, Brad is attracted to Expressionist charac...

Ruth Thomas is a printmaker who graduated in 1985 with a degree in Fine Art. Then she concentrated on painting, collage and drawing. Since the early 1990s Ruth has concentrated on etchings, screenprints and drypoints but the process which allows her to express herself best is collagraph, a print f...