Message from last year on a busy day

 

Video of me talking about 

Georgia Fullerton's GASP exercise.

It has been a busy and tiring day.  I'm about to have supper with my 
sweetheart (my husband Steven), and I'm almost recovered from my
eye surgery last Monday.  I found both a video and a post that moved

me.  I sometimes feel so down about the world that it's hard to be
creative. We've had a major win this week with the public making 
it clear that we don't want the Billy Bishop airport expansion on
Toronto island. But still this older post (lightly edited) applies"

"The news is, and has been hard for months.  I feel powerless reading
about wars, famine, politicians fighting for positions, instead of demanding 
ceasefires, (and fires in our country and many others), and that food goes
to the people who are starving to death, that we take
care of the environment. Plus as artists, we still need to create.  It is our
purpose to use our abilities even when things are so grim.  

It was a beautiful day here, if way too hot, and I found a post from a few,
years ago with a very bad video by me about how Georgia Fullerton's
GASP methodis somewhat magical, and worked for me. Forgive the
terrible quality of the video. To put it mildly I am not a techy.

"2020 was when this long, long pandemic began.  We
had no vaccines, and new variants kept coming at us.
One of my friends, the wonderful artist Georgia Fullerton,
held a GASP session for artists on Zoom, to try and inspire us
 to keep going.  I will quote that piece tonight, and show the poor
 quality video I made to go along with the blog post.

"COVID -19 (which by the way continues.  Now add measles

and RSV.  Close friends just had COVID) has shut a lot of
artists down.  We keep trying, but the impetus to paint has been
impacted by the facts -- so many galleries being closed, rare
meetings with other artists. 

On June 26 (a few years ago) Georgia Fullerton held a Zoom
event to introduce her GASP method of painting people's emotions,

and histories. She had wonderful, inspiring guests. And I don't know
about the effect on other artists, but it got me back into the studio
in a pre-COVID-19 way. I'm not saying the art I'm producing is great,
but I feel super painting. The joy of doing it has come back to me.  
I credit Georgia.  Oh and of course my husband Steven who came into the
studio and said he liked the painting I was working on.  We need
that support."

Have a loving your life day.