Accept the Call to Creativity
make beautiful & enchanting arts
Creativity At Any Age
Creativity calls at any stage of life or age, from childhood to 80+.
And, importantly, you are never too old to learn an art and cultivate your creative voice and vision.
The Creative Advantage
The mature person (50+) has the creative advantage of having a depth of knowledge, experience and wisdom that feeds and inspires their creativity.
The Stages of Life, 1835, Caspar David Friedrich.
Soap Bubbles, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1733-34.
Art & Artist
Art is crafting and making what you love. Perhaps your calling is to write poetry, perform, paint, photograph, dance or compose a symphony.
An artist is anyone who heeds the call to creativity, commits to cultivating their unique creative voice and vision, makes heartfelt art and lives a creative life.
Accept the Call to Creativity
When you accept the call to creativity, you join a long line of creative predecessors from the depths of time to now, whose creative work continues to give people the life-enriching experience of:
beauty, enchantment, consolation, reflection, joy, delight, humour, hope, calm, nostalgia, melancholy, comfort, transcendence, and so much more.
Farm House With Birches, Gustav Klimt, 1900.
Woman Reading, Aaron Shikler, 1962.
Heed the Call to Creativity
I encourage you to heed the call to creativity. You will enrich your life and the lives of others in so many ways by bringing your creative voice and vision into the world.
Creative Life Philosophy
“When you accept the call to creativity, you’re embarking on an adventure of living a creative life. You will have joined the tribe of the dreamers, the keepers of the stories, the shapers of visions, and caretakers of the imagination.”
Wheat Field with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
“We make art to know ourselves, to locate ourselves in the web of being, to make ourselves more alive. We make art that, at its best, helps other people locate themselves and live.”
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
“The deep purpose in creative expression is finding beauty and enchantment.
The idea of the beautiful is the longest standing theory of aesthetics around and for a reason it feeds us.”
The Arts Spark Aesthetic Emotions & Experiences
“From time to time, we encounter works of art that seem to latch on to something we have felt but never recognised clearly before. We feel less alone. We experience a moment of consolation and inner transformation.”
The Grand Canal in Venice, Claude Monet, 1908.
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Carravaggio, 1597.
A Big Reason Why Create
The creative work you make sparks rich aesthetic and emotional experiences in your audience.
When asked to describe a piece of music, an exhibition, a poem or novel, a play or movie, people frequently use emotions to describe their experience.
We gift ourselves and our audience an enriching aesthetic experience by making beautiful and enchanting art.
“Art matters, in virtue of the kind of experience it invites the spectator into.”
What the Arts Spark
Enchantment, Remembering, Consolation, Transformation, Connection, Humanity,
Compassion, Hope, Reflection, Insight, Understanding, Reverie, Appreciation,
Curiosity, Melancholy, Nostalgia, Awe, Wonder Tears, Transcendence, Sublime,
Calm, Quiet, Silence, Fear, Disquiet, Repulsion, Chills, Sadness and so much more.
The Wounded Angel, Hugo Simberg, 1903 .
Creativity Coaching, Courses & Workshops
The Helios Arts Approach
Autumn Evening. Ferdinand Hodler, 1892.
Grounded in Creativity Psychology + Wisdom Philosophy.
No Quick Fixes - Simply Time + Effort + Perseverance.
Learn Creativity Mindset + Habits So You Can Overcome Your Creative Blocks + Spark Your Creativity.
Learn to Cultivate Your Poetic Vision So You Can Discover the Meaning + Purpose of Your Creativity.
Develop Your Creative Voice + Vision So You Can Gift Your Audience a Beautiful + Enchanting Experience.
“Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.”
