Studio Alchemy Podcast Episode 98: How to Speak to Your Muse

 

Today’s episode of the Studio Alchemy Podcast features a chat about how we can use our creative energy to speak to those we love, connect, and communicate.  When we speak to one person through our artwork what we create will resonate with other people with more passion and honesty than if we create for no one.When we create for others our work is infused with a powerful energy- an energy that is full of yearning, desire, and a need to connect.  When we create for others our passion infuses the work with emotion.  

We can use our creative energy to speak to those we love.

I yearn for understanding! And I bet you do too.


Samuel Woodforde, Apollo and the Muses, 1804

In the old myth the Muses were characters that inspired people to create.  I feel that I am inspired by the people I love.  They are my muses.


When I created this piece, "The Birth of Venus," I was celebrating love.  In this ancient myth the Goddess of Love emerged from ocean foam fully formed and ready to embrace us.   When I create a piece like this it isn't for me.  It is for you.  It is for anyone who needs to hear this message: Love is always ready to embrace you.

Brenda Ueland said that art is, "an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth.  Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to listen."

Other times my artwork is more splashy and says what I want to say, not with story, but with emotional color.

Can you guess what I was feeling with this piece?

Or this one?


When we create for others our work is infused with a powerful energy- an energy that is full of yearning, desire, and a need to connect.  

This is one of the many reasons I am thankful for our Studio Alchemy art community.  Together we create...


And listen to one another.  We share what we are yearning to say with our work.



We are inspired by each other.  We are muses to each other in community.

And we get silly together too.  Our mascot Doogie inspires that!