I learned that the simple act of making art every day made me an artist. I began to put making art first on my to-do list. I made it a non-negotiable, because it made me so happy.

Facing the void feels so overwhelming because it is the birthplace of limitless possibility. It is the place of potential new life, and the repository of the old.

slow down the moment so as to find our way back into it. Day Schildkret, Morning Altars

creativity is a form of magic, one that happens unseen in the dark, in the space between the known and the unknowable.

For me creativity is an act of devotion, a path of extreme vulnerability, which has immense gifts both for me and for the world. It’s a kind of apprenticeship or discipleship to an unknown mistress, and it’s one that I feel very, very lucky to have.

The Threshold Guardian tests us for courage and commitment. They ensure that we take the process seriously, that we want what we are seeking badly enough and that we can show that we are eligible to proceed. But it is not just the entrance to The Creative Way that is guarded, though the Gatekeeper at the threshold to the labyrinth tends to be the m

I see a creatrix as someone who uses his or her creativity to take the feminine wound and transform it. To take us from pain to power. To release the shame that keeps so many of us trapped and fearful. To give voice to authentic feminine experience – every bit as bold and loud and vibrant as it wants or needs to be. i

In order to create, we have to find ways to be comfortable in the void. This tends to involve keeping our bodies and hands busy whilst our psyche travels through this space, doing something that requires a degree of concentration: knitting, sewing, cleaning, sorting materials, exercising, driving…tasks that novelist Kate Atkinson describes as “mind

With experience we learn that all projects, just like all births, have their own innate rhythm and that no matter how much we try to push and shove, some are slow-burns or simply need more time. This is why, as creatrixes, our deadlines must always be negotiated four ways: between ourselves, those we are creating for, the work and the creative Sour