Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create

Description

This book teaches you how to unlock your creative potential, see the beauty in the everyday, and cultivate a daily practice of meaningful, conscious creativity. This is a practical, process book, showing how we can all connect with our inner and personal creativity to express who we are, and embrace the joy of mindful creativity and making. 'Flow', that enviable condition of complete creative absorption, is hard for most of us to achieve in everyday life. In Conscious Creativity, Philippa Stanton offers us the key to the door: this book is a guide to unlocking your potential and making flow a natural part of your daily creative practice. Readers will find these pages packed with joyful wisdom, which will simultaneously open their eyes to the beauty of ordinary things and enable them to make the connection with their own creative impulses to ensure the best possible results. Rich, breathtaking new photography specially created for this book reinforces each lesson in an unforgettably visual way.

Philippa Stanton is a professional artist with over 20 years' experience in both creating and teaching art. She holds popular workshops and teaches courses online at 5ftinf.com, while the inspirational qualities of her imagery have attracted over 450,000 followers on Instagram. Clients attracted by her work have been as diverse as Green & Black's chocolate and The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. Conscious Creativity is her eagerly-anticipated first book.

"So much colour in one book! I love the daily practice prompts, to encourage you to go and create." * Betty magazine * "This new tome is packed full of mindful craft exercises, tips, stunning imagery and personal accounts. The book aims to help readers to fully appreciate what is around them, opening up their senses to the beauty they may mot notice every day, and showing how to capture it through crafts." * Your Home * "A creativity guide, prompting visual and visceral experiences, which sit alongside memory and abstract thinking." * Psychologies * "Sometimes it's easy to fall into a crafty rut, so Philippa Stanton reveals how to get your mojo back, with simple yet beautifully illustrated exercises to help you find inspiration in everything around you." * Crafts Beautiful * "Crammed with practical ideas, inspirational images & creative exercises, Conscious Creativity leads the reader through the process of establishing what kind of creative you are..." * Mslexia * "The purpose of this book is to enable you to look at things in an alternative and more substantial way, so that you arrive at composition through genuine interest." * Juno * "Philippa is passionate about people connecting to their innate creativity and has distilled these incredible techniques and ideas on how we can tap into that." * Sophie Robinson Interiors * "Wanting to get a bit more creativity going in your life, but not sure where to start? Philippa Stanton's book, Conscious Creativity, could be just what you need - with daily practices offering specific instructions to get you in touch with your senses." * Made for Mums * "A few flicks through Conscious Creativity and you're sure to get your crafting mojo back in next to no time." * Papercrafter * "Packed with joyful wisdom, this fascinating title invites readers to open their eyes to the beauty of ordinary things and connect with their creative impulses." * Craft Focus * "A beautiful toolbox of tips, techniques and exercises to ignite your inner creative." * The Home Page *