Creatrix: she who makes

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

Through the creative process we weave new languages, new identities, new worlds from these. We create a new reality that we and, if we have the courage and platform to share it, others can inhabit alongside us.

If my emotions or mind are churning on something, I do a WORD+image piece to try and figure out what is going on for me.

With each book I develop a playlist, and listen to the same songs each day before I start writing. I sing to them, move to them, meditate to them… I have another playlist of sacred instrumental music that I listen to with big noise cancelling headphones when I write – this is especially helpful when I’m writing in a café waiting to collect a child

This is the legacy that creative women – even in the twenty-first century – have inherited. This is the education – conscious and unconscious – that we received: not seeing people like us creating things that speak to our souls in ways that reflect our experiences, our feelings, our bodies.

What defines a creatrix is less the sex of the body that a person was born into, but rather that they live in contact with that in our culture which has been designated the Feminine – the fluid and flowing – and devote themselves to bringing these qualities to birth through their bodies.

Advisor that you want to be an artist or actor and chances are she gives you a tight smile and tries to steer you into a safe, known career: teacher or arts therapist. Something conservative. Careful. With a reliable pension. Overtly choosing to be a professional artist from the outset is quite rare. Few of us actively choose The Creative Way as ou

So many of us are longing to partake in these raw, hard-to-articulate discussions about the experiences of creativity, spirituality, sexuality and birth-giving that shape every layer of our beings.

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.