''Over the last decade, I have felt a really powerful shift in my creativity and my life. I want to share it with you because it is about how I fell in love with art again. Opulent magenta, iridescent liquid metals and velvet blues were used to create my new work as well as the worlds blackest black, glitter and resin! I love to create paintings that reflect the light at different angles, causing the surface to sparkle or shimmer and magical digital collages that make your heart sing''
MY HEART CENTERED APPROACH TO CREATIVITY
Discover and return to a more simple, and meaningful way of approaching your creative life.
HELLO
Joanne Webb is a gentle guide, arts educator and award-winning painter intertwining a fine art background from the Royal Academy, a passion for design, British manufacturing, Buddhist heart centered teachings, creativity, Sanskrit chanting and wellbeing.
The concept of having an 'art practice' is something that embodies ideas and the process of making art. Essentially it is a form of intellectual and imaginative inquiry. It is the place where research can be carried out and where we interpret the evidence in a range of different ways.
The concept of spiritual practice or spiritual discipline is regular or full-time actions and activities undertaken for the purpose of cultivating spiritual development.
I am interested in the space in the middle where the two practices are combined.
I paint and create whatever lights me up, reflecting on a deeper source in a way that contributes to wellbeing, happiness and curiosity.
Testimonials
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''I have found that having a meditation practise valuable alongside my creativity transformative and this has made me feel at ease at the easel. Sometimes in the middle of the painting, I will simply just stop. I will put down the paintbrush and set my timer for ten minutes, place my feet firmly and flat on the ground, place my palms up, rest my view, and focus on the breath''
FREE COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
The Creative Metta art and wellbeing project 2021 is now live and launched. The 1st phase of our campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of creativity on our mental health is via Instagram @creativetribe.guru.
Join us on Mondays and Thursday each week! We need creative beings everywhere to respond and create work around our word and visual prompts! Showcase YOUR work!
Due to Covid-19 restrictions there is a delay to face to face workshops based in Chichester, west Sussex in partnership with social prescribing. Funded by Arts Council and Chichester District Council.
METTA - SIMPLY MEANS 'BEYOND'
DEEPAK CHOPRA
THE STORY OF YINMN BLUE: THE NEWEST BLUE PIGMENT
YinMn Blue was discovered by chance in 2009 by Professor Mas Subramanian and Andrew E. Smith, who was then a graduate student at Oregon State University. Its unusual name refers to the periodic symbols for the elements it contains – Yttrium (Y), Indium (In), and Manganese (Mn). Artists have long had a fascination with the colour blue. 15th Century artist Cennino Cennini wrote that Lapis Lazuli is “a glorious, lovely and absolutely perfect pigment beyond all the pigments. It would not be possible to say anything about or do anything to it which would not make it more so.” When artist Yves Klein developed International Klein Blue more than 500 years later, he was exploring the transcendent, extra-dimensional quality of the colour. “Blue is the invisible becoming visible”, he wrote, “Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colours partake.” It’s hard not to think that the discovery of a new blue pigment is particularly exciting.
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