014 How Making Art Leads To Self Development

Welcome back to another episode of the Paint Rest Repeat Podcast. This fortnight the gang is back!! After a break in regular programming with Ros doing some interviews – Laura and Ros are back together on the Mic and discussing - how making art leads to personal development. At the beginning of the episode Ros discusses the topic of “Perfectionism” for artists and how it crops up for many creatives. She talks about a time when she was creating artwork and decided to make a website for her art and she just put it out there to see what happens – which is a great way to combat perfectionism. The philosophy of just doing it anyway. Laura talks about perfectionism being present for her today in her arts practice and that she has now become accepting and okay when perfectionism rears its head. She talks about a time that her work was not measuring up to the skill level that she had imagined and only through doing more and more art that she gained confidence in her work. Ros remarks that ALL people are capable of making art. Laura agrees. The way that each of us perceive our work is different. It comes from the stories and narratives about art that we were told when we were young. When placing judgement on whether a work is deemed “good” or “bad” and this may impact on if a person peruses a creative practice or not. Ros talks about a strategy that artists can take around imagining what you want to achieve –and asking yourself what baby steps can take me closer to this direction? She also brings up “Quantity over quality” from Julia Camerons – the artists way. As a way of working past blocks in your art practice. They both discuss the topic of confidence and Ros remarks about what has changed for her is her level of confidence in putting her art out into the world. By doing it again and again. showing up on Instagram and showing her face on stories the more her confidence grew. Laura has also had a similar change in her confidence levels as she set a challenge to develop a new body of work for a solo exhibition and then a second one.   Many interesting stories are shared… Happy listening…   We hope that you enjoy the show!     Please send us a DM on Instagram to tell us how you found this episode and let us know if you have any ideas for future topics for the show.   This episode is sponsored by: Ros’ Membership Art for the Heart - for more info please visit: https://www.permissiontopaint.co    FIND US AND FOLLOW US ONLINE! Follow Laura on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurajaneday/  Follow Ros on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ros.gervay.creative/ And to book a creative kick-start coaching session with Laura or to find out more about her Soul Medicine Painting workshops please visit: https://laurajaneday.com/   For more information about Ros’ courses, membership and free community, please visit https://www.permissiontopaint.co or to see Ros’ art please visit http://www.rosgervaycreative.com Please help us grow our Podcast by leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts. Here is how!     Stay tuned for more episodes being released every two weeks!