Writer + Artist

Hymn and hammer: turning down the ‘almost’ right fit

by rosedeniz May 19, 2011 global niche

Lured back and forth between the prayer circles and poetry writers, I perched chameleon-like, observing, absorbing, authenticating.

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The Healthy Artist & Writer’s Contract

by rosedeniz May 12, 2011 art

A highly personal, totally individual, agreement for guilt-and-stress-free creativity.

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Lost words: saying goodbye to mono-language

by rosedeniz April 25, 2011 global niche

A bilingual artist and writer finds she’s lost her word mojo.

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Creative Peek: an interview with Charlie of Happy Threads

by rosedeniz April 14, 2011 creativity

A Melbourne-based cross stitcher turns her ideas into a blog and shop, sharing her patterns, love of food, and all things crafty.

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The miracle worker

by rosedeniz April 3, 2011 personal growth

Hired help gives a tired momma and creative entrepreneur the keys to self-care.

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It’s volatile out there. Eruptions, creative blocks, pain stories. Impasses and detours. Bloggers only as good as their last post. Artists only remembered by their latest body of work. Writers after a successful debut who get a bad case of second-book syndrome. Can creativity heal in the face of disaster?

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With love, and heaven

by rosedeniz March 4, 2011 creativity

Poets and writers and artists all love to cross-pollinate. Jorie Graham paints to fuel her poetry.The poet Mark McGuinness is best known as a creativity coach and voice behind Lateral Action. This poem, Cennet/Heaven is in honor of my grandmother and Midwestern foodstuffs.

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String theory, songlines, and creative cocktails

by rosedeniz February 27, 2011 creativity

Tweet Fascinated by string theory as a painting student at Cranbrook, I read The Elegant Universe at the suggestion of my studio mate, Allie Rex. Allie’s work today still seems guided by a merger of science and the natural world. Under the chaotic surface of her drawings on mylar, there is a sense of order in her […]

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