Personality Styles for artists: why knowing yours can help you grow in confidence and be more effective as an artist. This live teach on Instagram is for Mindset Transitions my 10 week online annual personal development and group coaching programme for artists. Mindset Transitions runs in September each year. Does this ring true for you?Continue reading “Personality Styles for Artists”
Category Archives: Coaching
How to be an artist
Finding ways to become your own art teacher.
How to Choose an Art Coach
Five things you can do in choosing an art coach.
Build Your Confidence Challenge
Are you thinking that you might be interested in building your confidence as an artist? In my experience confidence is often based on how we account what we are good at, how much our self-limiting beliefs and critical inner dialogue affects us, how we prioritise ourselves and our work, and how effective we are atContinue reading “Build Your Confidence Challenge”
Sticking to the knitting – or how to build an arts business
I wanted a comparable arty phrase but couldn’t come up with one, so sticking to the knitting it had to be. What am I talking about? Being focused and keeping with a plan, or how I have gone about building an arts business. I’m an emerging artist. I have been a painting for about eightContinue reading “Sticking to the knitting – or how to build an arts business”
On Capacity and Connectedness
This post is about some discoveries about capacity and connectedness that emerged from a recent period of struggling to paint. I’ve been having a tough few weeks. My art; often a refuge, delight and source of energy has not been going well. I have been feeling frustrated, irritable, comparing my work to others and feeling selfContinue reading “On Capacity and Connectedness”
How to support your artist mindset.
Belief in Ourselves, or Believing Ourselves. Do you have belief in yourself? Or, do you believe yourself when you are repeating some unhelpful or critical inner dialogue? This post is one of a number I will be writing over the next few weeks on how to support your artist mindset. I’m a member of aContinue reading “How to support your artist mindset.”
Why Coaching – Five Reasons
I’m going to keep this pretty simple, I thought I would write a short post of my top 5 reasons why coaching can be useful and beneficial. Support Art coaching can support us so we don’t feel alone or isolated, struggling without help. Even when the work is going well sometimes we can feel thisContinue reading “Why Coaching – Five Reasons”
Are we over?
I sometimes find myself standing in front of a painting thinking, “Are we over?” Artistic Process A little like a relationship that is no longer working, with our art do we need to ask this question? Are there times we have to decide that a painting is not working and move on from it. Or can we persevereContinue reading “Are we over?”
Falling in love?
Last night I fell in and out of love. With a painting. Creativity You may remember that I have recently completed a 12 week online art development programme (CVP) with Nicholas Wilton, from Art2Life. One of his phrases about painting, and one that has stayed with me is “Don’t fall in love too early” WhatContinue reading “Falling in love?”