The Creative Unlearning

Your ideas are impotent without your collaboration. You are the activating agent. In this episode we take a look at why you resist acting on your ideas and what you can do about it. We end with a reflection prompt. Get your free audio guide & workbook - 'Why Making Art Feels So Hard' - subscribepage.io/Bj74Sl  

In this week’s episode I speak about how lucky we are to be artists. We can be told about a lot of negative aspects of being an artist but the positives far outweigh the negatives. If you are an artist, you are one of the lucky ones! Free Audio Guide - 'Why Making Art Feels So Hard' subscribepage.io/Bj74Sl   The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning

In this week’s episode I speak about using the beginning of a new year in a totally different way to how we are all told to begin it. Instead of rushing into action on your goals how about using the time to daydream about your new ideas and allow time for creative incubation. Coming Soon : Navigating The Creative Cycle - Launching in Jan 2025 - to be part of the waitlist please sign up to my art l...

In this week’s episode I speak about the sentiments behind the statement artists often hear , which is. “I could do that” and how it can lean into devaluing the work of an artist and the art itself. To listen to the full episode head over to Spotify/ Apple and you’ll find The Creative Unlearning podcast - or link in bio ✨ Coming Soon : Navigating The Creative Cycle - Launching in Jan 2025 - to be...

In this week’s episode I ask the question, are you a creative butterfly? Do you flit from one new idea to the next but never see any single one of them through to the end? We take a look at how we can use constraint as a way of insuring we learn to see some projects through to completion. Coming Soon : Navigating The Creative Cycle - Launching in Jan 2025 - to be part of the waitlist please sign u...

In this week’s episode I take a look at having a dose of naivety in your creative pursuits is a good idea and how it may very well be the catalyst that is required. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain (if you wish to join my Patreon and are an Apple IOS user, please purchase it through the desktop ver...

In this week’s episode we talk about the need to detach from seeking the red dots of affirmation through social media when it comes to our art. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain (if you wish to join my Patreon and are an Apple IOS user, please purchase it through the desktop version to avoid additio...

Do you harbour a fear of making ordinary art so much that you don’t make any art at all. In this week’s episode I take a look at how much power the ordinary has inherent within it and why we should utilise it to make the art we desire. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain (if you wish to join my Patreo...

Are you an overt thinker when it comes to your art; obsessing over your ideas but never making taking action. In this week’s episode we explore how overthinking is related to the duo of procrastination and perfectionism and how to overcome it. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain Youtube - https://www....

You see something new and shiny and start with excitement and run out of fervour because you get distracted by something new and shiny. Nothing teaches its end and all your art hangs mid point. Like a love bomber you hit hard and fast and then leave The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain Youtube - https:...

Today’s episode explores how when it comes to creating we all have our own version of our creative utopias. Where we have the exact right amount of time, space, environment materials etc What if we have it back to front? That we are not meant to wait for our idealised versions but that where we are and what we have is exactly what is required to create what we are meant to here and now? The Creati...

Today’s episode looks at the expectations we bring with us when we sit down to create and how we can learn to create alongside those expectations whether we meet them or not. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@illustratingrain

Today’s episode looks at how we all have our own creative cycles and how we can learn what each stage looks like for us and get familiar with all the ups and downs we face along the way and know that we can trust that we will move through each stage and reach the completion of the cycle so that we can repeat it again. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearni...

Today’s episode focuses on how we can misinterpret the discomfort we feel when we are in an unfamiliar territory and the unease we may experience as a signal to withdraw and retreat. When it comes to cultivating your art practice, this may be the very opposite of what you need to do. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.co...

In today’s episode I explore how detrimental comparing ourselves to others is on our creativity. And how the antidote to feeling insecure and making unfair comparisons to others is to focus in on your own creative power. The Creative Unlearning Book - https://www.illustratingrain.com/creativeunlearning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/IllustratingRain Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@illustrati...

Today's episode is in celebration of my new book titled The Creative Unlearning and a new season of the podcast. We cover the many areas where artists need to undertake an unlearning and share how as long as we are making art and creating, we will simultaneously be participating in an unlearning; so that we get to be the artists we choose to be and make the art we want to make. You can purchas...

This episode looks at the importance of knowing who you are before you pick up your phone to scroll where you will find a myriad of opinions on who you should be.

If I were to ask you what is stopping you from creating the art you wish to make, what would you tell me? Would you speak of all the ways the world prevents you from doing what you wish to do. Would you speak of all the objects and concepts outside of you from people,time, money and your environment that prevent you from making the art you so desire to make. At what point do you think you would co...

We decide there are deadlines and timelines for life events? Because we as humans have created such ideals. We have milestones hung all around our human existence. What happens when your life does not fit into a neat linear trajectory? Artists by the very nature of what they do will never fit into a prescribed timeline. Art does not get created in this way and we as artists are not conduits of cre...

We can learn from an early age to become people pleasers, but we are not always aware of the side effects of it on our sense of selves and our creativity. In this weeks episode we take a look at how this shows up in our actions and behaviours.

There seem to be two schools of thought: one is the prevalent one, winners never quit and also the binary version which says we should know when to call it a day and quit before we invest any further time/money/energy into whatever venture we are partaking in.  The most important question that can arise for a creative is whether they should quit the whole idea of pursuing their art in the first pl...

As If.  What are you using your imagination for? Are you using it to worry or assume the worst about yourself or are you spending time imagining the outcomes that you would want, the ways you want to be. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are conjuring up images of ourselves and our worlds constantly and so there comes a time when we learn to better utilise the gifts of our imagination. In the...

We walk around with quite a lot of assumptions. We have these nice, sanitised ideas of how things should look, how they should be and when they don’t show up how we imagined, we feel like we have failed, or something has gone wrong when the only thing that was wrong was our assumption.  You can listen to the full episode over on Youtube or on Spotify/Apple Podcasts Don’t forget you can download th...

Choose Again If you have found that up until now you have not felt confident in the way that you have wanted to, then always know you can choose again.  It is not a conscious act when ideas and beliefs that erode self-confidence appear. We are not aware of the exact moment we had a thought that something about us or our art was not good enough and decided to believe it and leave it to grow, unques...

Quit Using Negative Motivation Motivation is seen as a positive word and something we all want. To feel motivated to do what we are wanting to do. But as adults, we could have cultivated a habit of using a negative form of motivation to move us. It still causes us to act, but it does so from a place of fear and not being good enough.  You can listen to the full episode over on Youtube or on Spotif...