"Precious Note", acrylic on canvas, 30" X 48", © Loren Griffyn

Inspiration for today

Tweet This painting caught my attention recently as I was sorting some stuff out of my storage.  It’s one of my bigger works that I did back in 2009.  It has a quote on it from Julia Cameron, “My song is a precious note in the symphony of life”.  I often create to inspire myself…and [...]

Pages from my Sketchbook…

Pages from my Sketchbook…

Tweet                 These past few weeks I have been experimenting with a different subject matter…wanted to share some of my favourites.

French Toast: food for contemplation

French Toast Revelations and Reconsidering the Myth

Tweet On my balcony admiring the light and the slowly building cumulus clouds on a hot, humid day, a beautiful, quite stunning realization came to me regarding the starving artist myth. As I was eating…(ironic isn’t it, as I do so love being well-fed) I asked myself, have I ever really starved?  Have I ever [...]

Studio sneak peak...

Studio sneak peak…

Tweet I’ve discovered an interesting thing about myself…when I have an art project to complete almost everything, besides eating, sleeping, going to my job and the art making, matter.   Thus is was a relief to finally have time to vacuum, catch up on laundry and dishes, and put the house in order.  And, take a [...]

Cerridwen, acrylic on canvas, 1989

Unearthing

Tweet I am a week and a half into the Mindful Artist Mentorship Program and already I’m feeling a shift. As we create our intentions for the program, we begin by creating space to work.  Thus, I am de-cluttering and re-shuffling my home studio space…to allow just for that…new space, fresh ideas, transformation. I have [...]

Preparing canvases for painting session

Work in progress

Tweet These past couple of weeks I’ve found myself feeling very quiet, as something is mulling in the back of my mind.  Unable to express myself verbally and in writing, I’ve sort of had to just let things lie.  So, with a commitment to a blog, it does become a bit of an issue.  Then, [...]

Creative musings and filling the well

Creative musings and filling the well

Tweet After an intense week hunched over the computer putting together my website, it was time for a much needed day trip.  Venturing to an artsy small town by the Lake was the perfect prescription.  I have not been in any galleries for a while, so having the opportunity to be reminded of the vast [...]