Happy New Year! How is it 2022 already? I hope your year has got off to a good start.

This month I though I’d write about the void. What do I mean by that? Well, I mean the space in between. The space where one thing is finished and before the next thing has started. Its kind of a magical place full of possibilities, but it can also seem daunting and even scary sometimes.

The void isn’t only something I have experienced in my creative practice. Its part of life itself. In fact I first started making art as an adult as a result of finding myself in the void. My lifestyle had changed dramatically, a significant relationship had ended and I needed to find something that I loved to do - to pursue for my self, and to fill the new spare time I had for myself. I was in a state where I had a space to fill. I didn’t know what was coming next. I didn’t have clarity or direction. I just needed to do something.

One of my dear friends suggested to try out things I had loved doing as a child, for fun, and one of those things was making art. Once I started I found myself doing more and more of it. At the start it was a way of being fully in the present moment, almost an escape from myself, or a meditation. Later, it has become a way of getting to know myself better. And here I am a few years later writing this.

I’m not in that kind of a void in my life right now, but I am in a creative void. I’m in between projects. I can feel my creative juices building up but I don’t yet know what my next project will be. There is room for lots of ideas, which is exciting, but I haven’t yet landed on the next thing. Its easy to wonder if there is anything….But I do feel able to trust that when the time is right I’ll know. I’ll receive energy that feels good and it will land on the new project, whatever it turns out to be. In the mean time I’m visiting new places, playing in my studio, practicing drawing, updating my website and doing all the things that support my practice. If I do that the next thing will come along. For me, the void doesn’t stay empty. It fills up with new things when the time is right. Is that how it is for you?