My indoor garden

 

Variety of the colours of the journey

 

Creativity

Creating art opens new doors for my heart, new views. 

Creativity challenges me to be open for new directions.

Creativity invites me to see the open door that I might not be able to see... not yet

Creativity helps me to walk step by step in trust... trusting in new possibility, trusting in the seeds of hope growing, while hidden deeply and safely in the ground

Creating and painting and hoping - with thankful and open heart, 

thankful for inspiration, thankful for connections, 

thankful for being able to be me 

and invite people around me to be fully who they are

2021 creativity and Addison's and life

 

New Year 2021 painting

 

My first painting of this new year, painted on 1st January 2021... painting about hope and about being open for every new day and every new step on this journey of discoveries 

Life with Spoons and creativity

Reflecting on my "life with spoons"  

During the recent online meeting for staff with disabilities, 

we talked about "spoon theory" and life with spoons. 

https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illness-explained-like-never-before#1 

I usually express myself better and more fully through my visual creativity and through art. 

I’ve created this digital painting about what "spoon management" means for my life - juggling being a full time carer, working part time for the NHS, thinking about further studies, being a full time Mum, a housewife, being an artist with many dreams, being a person with a number of very complex chronic health conditions and just being neurodiverse me. 

Yes, life seems to be very full, but also positive and hopeful. After many years of not seeing a clear direction for my personal development in terms of career / study progression, a door seems to be slowly, very slowly, opening... step by step... I have tried to paint how all of this links with my "spoonie life". 

Art is a journey, a journey of new openings.

This painting is about life juggling with spoons, a life of many colours, 

a life of joy, pain, hopes and dreams

 

New paintings

 

Journeying through the life and many colours of life