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WHAT'S SPIRITUAL ABOUT THE ARTS?
There are works of art in all the artistic disciplines that take us into the profound purposes behind their creation. They open us to...

THE ARTS, THE SOUL AND EVERYONE
The arts are about the inner, the soul, impossible to measure monetarily, and sidelined in a pandemic yet artists still keep creating.

A Beautiful Adventure - When Artists and Therapists Walk Hand in Hand
Some of my Facebook friends are artists; some are therapists and healers. Two comments in an online discussion set me thinking. One, that...

How Do The Arts Keep Wonder Alive?
I don’t think Picasso meant that everyone should make a career practising an art form. After all, society needs its farmers, chefs, scientis

The Flowers Are Talking
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham philosopher This musing was...

Colouring in or Colouring out? What’s the value of colouring books?
There are two very different ways of working with colour. For the ‘in’ approach I chose the popular phenomenon of adult colouring books....

‘Poetry In Motion’ In the Different Worlds of Surfing and Dancing
Surfing reminds me of a dance, a pas de deux with the ocean. I think that’s why I reacted when I read that a super modern pool with...

The Commodification of Beauty
Prodigal Daughters is a panoramic book about the arts. Here I can focus on the particular and like most people I respond to immediate...