The new year brings with it a natural opportunity to begin freshly looking and creating!… everything I look at informs my perception and in time, my drawings, paintings and soul…
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I am so glad you are here! I am beth vendryes williams, a visual artist. Creativity is a universal and invaluable skill. As an artist, I apply my creativity to paper and canvas. However, developing and training the mind to think outside the proverbial box is as important to the success of the CEO of a Fortune 500 company as it is to an artist. This blog strives to help you discover the potential of your creativity and to harness that potential to enhance your life.
You do not need paint or clay. You need only a desire to develop your creativity.
I explore with you the creative process and thinking tools that work to expand thinking. I am motivated to investigate ways to think more creatively because I have need to change a lot of situations in order to accomplish my goals. And sometimes I realize I need to adapt my goals.Once you learn to think outside the box you can apply that essential skill wherever and whenever you want!
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I live on Long Island, New York with my supportive husband, who is a scientist and master gardener. Our 3 sons visit for varying periods of time now that they are pursuing their own careers and studies. We also share our home with two very funny golden retrievers.My journey as an artist began as a child with an irrepressible desire to create. Strands of dried grass were materials to build sculptures and smooth beaches were blank canvases to paint with my hands.
This passion continues to inspire my studies, exhibits and daily studio work. It has also inspired me to teach art to children and adults for 20 years.
What is so fascinating to me, is that the lifelong process of making art has so transformed my way of thinking!
I live with the attitude of an artist. To an artist, everything is a valuable work of art. A mistake, a wayward slip of a pen, is an opportunity to create something new. In my blog, I share my gift of creativity with you. Thus the title," Make art. Transform life." improve your creativity with or without crayons".Feel free to contact me with interest in creativity and /or my artwork. You can visit my website of work on the link in the navigation bar above.
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Kath Schifano - Bonnard’s work is full of energy & color & causes me to spend time just traveling around the canvas. The unusual colors & angles of view are always interesting-this is a new picture for me. Your recent museum travels have created quite a literal holiday for you!
bethvw - Karen,
Yes, it is transitory and fragile. Art is a dialogue that we have with ourselves and each other through visual language of line, color, shape, form, space, value & texture which give tangible evidence of our invisible selves. Having the confidence to give priority to that dialogue by leaving space to create and time to listen is a challenge, but well worth the effort!
bethvw - Nina, I agree… I think that is why I made sure I visited both MoMA and the Met during the holiday. I needed to look and be in the presence of dynamic, articulate work to open up new avenues in my head, heart and finally through my hands to my work!
Karen Renna - Recently I walked through the Met Museum and saw Byzantine, early relics from an “international” cache of merchandise from the 200-1000 BCE and then the collection from the De Montebello years. A host of inspiration from all the ages. As always I was stunned and humbly reminded that all things come from the same original source and what we, each of us, are striving to do is create our own dialogue with that source and maybe if we are lucky find a way to let others connect with us. What a tender and fragile journey it is. Language, visual or otherwise is so ephemeral really.
Karen Renna - Recently I walked through the Met Museum and saw Byzantine, early relics from an “international” cache of merchandise from the 200-1000 BCE and then the collection from the De Montebello years. A host of inspiration from all the ages. As always I was stunned and humbly reminded that all things come from the same original source and what we, each of us, are striving to do is create our own dialogue with that source and maybe if we are lucky find a way to let others connect with us. What a tender and fragile journey it is. Language, visual or otherwise is so ephemeral really.
Nina - Looking at ART changes my perspective, reminding me, jarring me into new directions, inspiring me. Just the ticket to kick off the new year! Thank you!!!
judecowell - Great painting!
judecowell - Great painting!