Doodling, colouring & drawing

Creativity is the ultimate problem solver. The next time you have an issue at the office, a dilemma at home or are simply feeling like you are in a bit of a slump, try tapping into your creative side.  Science proves that giving your analytical mind a break and allowing your mind to relax is……

Insights from “Inside the Painter’s Studio”

“Inspiration is for amateurs – the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Chuck Close Those words drew me into a book review published on brainpickings.org and eventually to purchase “Inside the Painter’s Studio” by Joe Fig. The book is for a very specific audience. Fig interviews 24 New York artists and……

What do you dream of?

I’ll tell you that I’ve dreamt about being a painter for as long as I can remember. I didn’t believe that I ever would be for almost as equally long. Thankfully something shifted. I can’t remember the circumstances. You would think it would have been a dramatic epiphany, but no. It could have been one……

I’ve had this torrid love affair with painting.

hold true 48" x 36" $2600 oil on canvas by Marlene Lowden

In the early years, we broke up — several times, followed by intensely passionate make up sessions. It was guilt that held me back. Guilt that I should be doing something else and that my love was a waste of productive time. I should be working at something that paid an hourly wage. I should be spending……