I hear it all the time… “I’m not creative”. I kinda know what people mean when they say that, - they don’t know how to draw or paint or sculpt. But, that’s not all there is to creativity - and as an art teacher, I know that these skills can be learned! I also know that creative expression is so much broader than 1 area of art! So, I don’t think it’s true! I think each of us is creative in one way or another!
We all have a personal point of view - a different way of seeing things. A different "take" on the way we see the world around us... and when we express that personal viewpoint in our own way, we are exercising creativity!
The enjoyment of bringing into being something that hasn’t yet been done before - at least not in the exact way in which we do it - and by putting our own personal touch on something (whatever that something may be) we have exercised creative expression! We are, by nature, makers and doers!
Creativity can be visual (which is the way I express my view of the world), but it can also be with the use of written language, or movement, or musical harmony, or culinary creations, or carpentry, or a so many other possibilities!
So, let’s celebrate our creativity! Let it root and develop and bloom, which requires purposeful nurture --- feeding it with beauty and wonder; the process of growth! It requires taking time with intention to let it blossom and become. What feeds your creative spirit?
