There are times in life when it is easy to wake up and not recognise the world that surrounds you. Or even worse yourself within it. There are moments that shake us to our core, and through ...

Coming Back to You

I think space and creativity have a tricky relationship, a bit like a Ross and Rachel type of thing (#oldschoolreference), you know, they are meant to go hand in hand but sometimes you are not sure ...

On Space and Creativity

I have already talked about how great cooking can be for your creativity and I think baking (let's face it, a form of cooking right? - Umm, yeah, you fucking idiot... (Sorry my subconscious can ...

Creative Project Idea: Make a loaf of bread

We all know that problem solving is one of the most creative things we can do - especially if we allow ourselves the luxury to just play around. So here is your challenge. Spend the next day ...

Creative Project Idea: Solve a problem

When I first started painting (side note I am not good at painting - for me it is purely a way to play) one of the best pieces of advice I was given was to simple pick up a sheet of paper or ...

Creative Project Idea: Two Colours

If you are kind of into this creativity thing now, chances are when you doing your creative work you are turning to a similar medium - whether its photography, writing, drawing, painting, ...

Creative Project Idea: Use a different Medium

I am going to admit right off the bat here that I am in love with this concept. So consider this post a total fan girl post. I discovered this idea through Elle Luna (author of 'The Crossroads ...

Creative Project Idea: 100 Day Project

So often we see creativity as a separate act. Something we need to find time for in our daily lives. But what if instead you made some of the daily actions of your life more artful or creative. I ...

Creative Project Idea: Make art out of your food

Now I know this is very specific, but this is so much fun. It is one of the best ways to mess around and with colour and its so playful it can't help but open up the creative. So here is what ...

Creative Project Idea: Melt Wax Crayons

There is nothing more wonderful in this world than a hand made present from someone who knows you. I can tell you 100% the best presents I have ever received have pretty much all been made for ...

Creative Project Idea: Make a present

When it comes to the link between creativity and mental health, Walt Sanchfield has to have written one of the most inspiring, simple and insightful things about what this was. When I first read ...

Creative Inspiration: Drawn to Life

Getting external inspiration is a wonderful way to amp up your creative juices. I love words so for me finding new words of phrases from a foreign language is like taking a warm bath in ...

Creative Project Idea: Find a cool foreign word of phrase

I have recently found myself looking at the lives of the people around me and getting jealous. You know that creeping feeling of discomfort that comes right after you feel joy for that person. ...

Don’t get jealous, get busy

There is often nothing more scary than a blank page. Personally I find the cursor at the top of the blank page or the white space of a canvas a daunting prospect. It can often taunt us with its ...

Creative Project Idea: Fill a blank page

Know you might be thinking I am slightly crazy at this point. What the heck has running got to do with creativity. Other than boring fartlek runs (if you don't know what this is google it, trust me ...

Running with Creativity

One of the best things about art is often the way it makes us look at things. I mean really look. And nothing is a greater and easier challenge than mixing a colour. Colour is pretty special ...

Creative Project Idea: Mix a colour

Creativity can sometimes prove to be an allusive state of being. Sometimes we are so in it, ideas are flowing, things are working and we feel on top of the world and other times despite our best ...

Filling your creative tank

  Ok, so it's time for real challenge - something that involves emotion... (WAIT!! Stop right there, don't go running away from me now) Part of the point of this site is to look at the ...

Creative Project Idea: Capture a feeling

One of the best things about technology is most of us carry around a pretty impressive camera in our pockets each day. That camera can be an eye on the world. So here is your challenge. Pick ...

Creative Project Idea: Take a photo a day

There is a myth, perpetuated by alot of shit people, usually told to us when we are children - and no it is not the tooth fairy, the monsters under the bed ... it is the idea that only some of us ...

How to be creative even when you think you are not

So we have all seen maps right. Have you ever thought that maps are the kind of thing that you know what they look like - that thing with lines and names and a scale - well think again. Today ...

Creative Project Idea: Create a new kind of map

What would we do if instead of looking for a definitive answer we just played? No final decision, no should do's, no final outcome. Just play. The chance to experiment and explore. As if we get ...

The Power of Play

So after giving it some thought I have decided (I know, if I have decided then this must be good right!) that the world is inherently creative.  But this doesn't necessarily mean that creativity ...

The Conditions of Creativity

So often the fear… of failing, of what other people think, of what we are supposed to be, or do,  stops us. It halts progress on the most precious of all seeds, the ideas that might change ...

I just don’t care

Exploring the power of Creativity

Creative Project Ideas

Haven't you heard? We all have a story to tell. Or at least that's what we are told. Often though it is the first few words that are the hardest. Nothing like a blank page or empty computer screen ...

Creative Project Idea: Writing Prompt

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