What is Conscious Creativity?
Deep inquiry through intentional art practice…
Art is the bridge, the tool, the mediator for a conversation with what is most resonant to our sensing bodies.
Art-making opens a doorway to deeper levels of meaning and knowledge, through creative dialogue and synchronization with what is needing to be seen or explored, and takes us far beyond the conscious understanding of the everyday mind.
It is a method for amplifying and interconnecting with the richness of the world, by learning to sense and consciously interact with the coded meanings on offer within our selves, and our life-world.
What can conscious art practice offer?
Change occurs, shift happens, and it’s fun… Shift happens when art is made this way. Change occurs, directly as a result of engaging in conscious creative practices. In short, it works.
When people engage authentically and consistently with conscious creative practice, they can experience illumination or shift with whatever is being investigated or explored. This could include any or all of the following:
•Current or past psychological states
• Patterns and sub-conscious stories sourced in family/culture of origin
• Healing or information about their body
• Insight into current relationships
• Information or shifts in past traumas
• Insight into the spirit of another creature, place or thing
• Intuitive knowledge of the archetypal meaning of a symbol, often from another or unknown culture’s mythology
• New personal relationship to artmaking or to specific media
• Key insights into one’s own personality
• Finding oneself tracking a personality trait or series of experiences from childhood onward—sort of connecting the dots.
• Build a newfound or deeper connection with the symbolic meaning within and behind all manifest life
Through creative exploration of what needs to be seen in a person’s life, each person hones their own methods for accessing inner knowledge and information. Clues to what is contained within one’s individual psyche are also often revealed.
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The creative practices Margaret offers, and practices in her own studio, are similar to automatic writing and authentic movement—a hands-on intuitive approach to deep inquiry and self-reflection. These types of visual art processes activate one’s inner knowing, and facilitate connection to deeper meaning beyond the self, often bringing forth information that hasn't yet become conscious. So art is the tool, basically, for allowing one’s innate ability to see, know, and understand. No experience with art is necessary—the process is equally generative for seasoned artists and creative newbies alike. You can’t do this wrong.
Each individual artmaking journey reveals the power of creating consciously. Guided art practices promote enlightened creating through activities such as guided meditation, visual artmaking, writing, discussion, witness, group practice, and time in nature. Goals include harnessing one’s own creative force field, removing creative and energetic blocks, and connecting to one’s heart.
Why write about art process?
I write for myself, to stitch together and witness my own evolution as a human, as a creative, as a visionary artist. I write to share with others, through the written descriptions of my painting experiences, and visual prints of the actual paintings.
In this way, I might:
• Shine light on the practice of living on earth as an active, collaborative symbolic process.
• De-mystify the conceptions around what a “mystic” or “visionary” is.
• Encourage others in the modern world to stand in their own non-traditional creative power.
• Introduce the idea of art as a spiritual practice in a modern world.
• Create a vehicle for change.
And have fun.