When you think of a lifesaver, you usually would think of a doctor or emergency medical technician. Or a life vest. Or a lifeguard. And you would be right. I have experienced, however, that I can physically live without observing the beauty of the world around me. I know that we can plod through our…
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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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bethvw - Oh Carole, I am so glad you like the painting! I really love using the oils.Soon I will have a newly refurbished studio, so I will be able to use oils more frequently.
You inspire me with your beautiful work with shapes and balance!
Do you have a couple of photos of your latest work that you could send me? Thank you so much!
Carole Freysz Gutierrez - Beth, I love your painting! It feels free and full of power of life! Thanks for inspirig me many times with your blogs- you are a great teacher!
xxx Carole
bethvw - @Heather,
Oh yes, the process is always transforming the next moment. Thank you for reminding me. To recognize the opportunity in each moment creates more opportunities for us. How wonderful to think of our lives as opportunities to live more fully and deeply.
bethvw - @Laura
Grat story…and a great way to center yourself! have you been working with throwing clay on a wheel lately/ It reminds me of the concentration necessary to do that!
bethvw - @Nina Yes it is. How are you creating your story these days? In my experience each day is in process.
bethvw - @ Liz, Thank you for your astute observations. I always can use a reminder. I like thinking of my day as a painting in progress. It reminds me as well to balance the composition, step back to look from a different perspective, To use the creative process in daily life opens up innumerable possibilities! Your story is heart opening …imagine getting up each morning to a blank canvas. What would be your first action to start the process?
Heather - I think of Lifesavers the candy too! Even more however, grateful for the gift of “becoming” as a part of the definition of creativity. Always a process and always a choice… and “creating” isn’t limited to one concept, thing or result. It is always forming and reforming, it changes or stays the same, and even if you experience it before, you have the freedom and choice to see, feel or think about it in new ways and different forms. Sharing it, whatever “it” is… connects us with more opportunity for the flame to spread slowly or quickly, based on our choices, and even if extinguished (which doesn’t have to be seen negatively) easily reborn by another spark or flame. Connecting definitely a lifesaver… and interestingly enough, it’s like a web, or a think map. – sparking only more creativity!
Laura - When I think of a life saver I think of candy!
When I am drowning with the concerns of my life
I sometimes choose to gaze outward…reminding myself…
the process of living is turning me — like a potters wheel
creating
I gaze out
I gaze within
I gaze…I see anew
chironarts - Being creative is a Life Saveur!
Liz Guercin - What a poignant reflection. I think how often I tell students that each day is a new one that grants them the opportunity to erase “yesterday” and to start afresh. Suprisingly it is a message that I forget to really own for myself. What a wonderous thing it is to think of each day as a canvas that we can paint as we wish. Perhaps I live that part subconsciously. Each day brings with it moments that linger as a brush stroke that punctuates my canvas and make that “work” unique. Thanks, Beth for forcing me to pause, look out of my office window and see the grass in the courtyard, a plane flying overhead, squirrels running the round of the tree and me just stopping for a creative rejuvenation.