Floating Free Painting

I was intrigued during the process of making this painting. It was as though each element of the composition alighted on the paper without ceremony or fanfare. It arrived and I was the observer. I have been doing a course called The Artist’s Way (not for the first time) with my close friend Lisa, and the essence of the course is about reframing what it is to be an artist. It is about getting to the truth of this very strange occupation that doesn’t naturally fit with the model of ‘work’ in society, but we nevertheless try to contort ourselves to appear normal, to great cost. The effort of feeling valid and accepted by external standards detracts from our capacity to experience our creative energy. The impact of doing the course this time around, has been for me to feel like I can let go of the feeling of needing to be other than I am, and to embrace my life as an artist on artist’s terms. For me, there is a lightness of touch in Floating Free, a sense of cutting the anchor and not minding what happens next.