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Always exciting to set up a new studio, and for it to be in the centre of my new semi-retired life, living in this beautiful community at Ōtaki beach. I love the country feel, mana, pace, warmth, and beauty of this town. My studio this time in our double garage, but I have had to carve off some shed/tool space but that's ok. Loving the indoor / outdoor flow - will be so handy to be able to make the big messes outside, and to move large things around. It's my 10th studio and first time in a garage. Just had power put on so all go now. Setting up a new studio is easy and so enjoyable, love all the clean whiteness and I get really carried away thinking about all the potential of the all the new work I'm going to make/paint. Once it's set up it's back to the reality of how challenging and mostly hard a creative pursuit is. I've had the opportunity to unpack stuff from storage that I've kept over 30 years - all my studio workbooks. Reading through them is highly motivating, the really creative stages leap out, sometimes by absence of writing - it's all the painting - and sometimes by my writing about joy and my passion for paint. Then there's all the angsting, about am I any good at all? Why paint? There's probably too many ( incredible!) paintings in this world, and way too many things. Then my husband reminds me - but you are so happy when you paint. And I know it's true - that flow, the integration of everything in my life, everything I think and feel all coming together, the physically and the making of something out of nothing - I'm constantly astonished that things manifest from nothing.
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