It’s tempting as we get older to think that we need to be on just one path. Or that when we make a decision we have to stick with it. Or even that our head knows best what to do – we talk ourselves into making decisions we think are ‘smart’ or ‘best’ without ever […]
J. S. Bach and the Value of Getting On With It
Last night I attended a very good performance of Bach’s St John Passion at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. I find it terribly relaxing to sit for 2 hours just listening to music – my average day is so scattered and all over the place that the focus of two hours on music […]
Be Empty to Hear the Answers.
To survive, an individual must repetitively stop whatever it is doing to ask how it is doing, to think about where it needs to go, and to be empty to hear the answers. M Scott Peck I have long been a fan of M Scott Peck’s writing. The Road Less Travelled was a huge influence on […]
First Steps to Setting Up a Creative Business
At a recent Creative Entrepreneurship workshop I lead at the Red Door Studios in East Ham a lot of people had questions about the nuts and bolts of setting up their own businesses, so I promised a kind of check list as to the first steps to consider. These are logistical steps and are kind […]
Don’t think about making art….
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. Andy Warhol
Picasso and the Myth of Originality
Today I attended a great exhibition at the Courtauld Institute, Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901, which looks at one year in Picasso’s output, 1901 when he first came to Paris as an ambitious 19-year-old and proceeded to paint up a storm. The breadth of his work during this period is remarkable. What is interesting about this […]
Cost Should Never Be An Excuse – the $1.99 App used to complete Oscar nominated film!
Check out this video (it starts after the advert at the beginning). It’s interesting because the film maker Malik Bendjelloul discusses how when he was making his documentary film “Searching for Sugar Man” he ran out of money and thought he was going to have to abandon his project because he couldn’t afford to continue shooting […]
How Our Desires Can Blind Us
Photo by poolski This has been a challenging couple of months for me on a professional front. Before Christmas I was offered an acting job (yay!) only to lose it because I couldn’t do the dates they needed me for (boo). Then I was thrilled to get another job offer – for something shiny and […]
What We Can All Learn From Dancers
It’s safe to say that that I started my career as a dancer. I started taking ballet lessons at age 7, which lead to lessons later in tap, jazz and modern/contemporary. It was through dance that I got involved in community theatre doing musicals, which lead to doing plays, and opera and eventually moving to […]
The Dance of Teamwork and the Value of Sprezzatura
That’s me, third from the left in the photo above. It was taken this past weekend at the Middle Temple, one of the famous Inns of Court in London, and where the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I was working with an historic dance and drama company called Nonsuch to perform a Candelmas celebration. […]
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