10 Secrets of Being an Everyday Creative
The Soul’s Need to Make Something from Nothing
with Marcy Tilton & Katherine Tilton, Everyday Creatives
Join me, Claire O’Connor, on October 26, 2011, as I host two of the most joyfully, prolifically creative women I know, who happen to be sisters: Katherine Tilton and Marcy Tilton.
Click here to access the recording of Marcy and Katherine’s call
Our conversation will center around these juicy topics, which I predict will be of great interest and service to other practicing and aspiring creatives:
- Fueling the art of the possible
- Igniting a renewed sense of creative courage
- Trusting the natural organic flow of the creative process
- Starting with one thing
- Noticing and being curious
Fed by the pleasure of collaborating as sisters, Marcy and Katherine Tilton uniquely blend daily life while living and working at home as successful artists and clothing designers.
Everyday, they practice flexing their creative muscles and priming the pump of their creative juices. They can’t imagine life without this essential foundation.
As a result, exuberant creative expression has become a perfectly normal activity in their household. And it takes many forms. It might be developing a new pattern, making clothes, photography, cooking, or very big creative projects like running the fabric business.
The common thread is the soul’s need to make things from nothing, the utter physical need to work with their hands.
Marcy says, “I create every day, for fun, for class preparation, for the pleasure of making, figuring out a design, for the challenge of solving a problem. I appreciate ‘mistakes’ because so many new techniques, ideas and improvements take place because of them.”
On this call, we’ll also make a potent inquiry into:
- ‘Niggles’ that sabotage our creativity and joy
- What is it that stops my creativity just short of amazing (or even just happening)?
- What is the thought, belief, pattern and/or idea I have about who I am and what I am capable of, that keep me thinking I can’t do something? Or that what I do won’t be good (important/meaningful/etc.) enough?
About Marcy & Katherine
Recognized internationally as inspiring and generous teachers, best friends and sisters Marcy Tilton and Katherine Tilton are both extraordinary fiber artists, creativity teachers and clothing designers who inspire others to ignite their creativity in everyday and playful ways.
Both women are everyday creatives who’ve been creating all their lives. Marcy and Katherine each design their own line of Vogue patterns and produce an extensive line of silk screens for fiber artists.
Marcy’s love affair with Paris led her to enroll her sister in co-leading intimate tours with a creativity and design twist, the perennially sold-out Paris Tilton Tour: 7 Magical, Inspiring and Artful Days in Paris. Their extraordinary insider resources, secrets of place, and wellsprings of inspiration converge to create a spectacular design connoisseur’s view of the incomparable City of Light.
Katherine freelances for Threads Magazine. Marcy co-produces Design Outside the Lines creativity/sewing/fiber retreats with Diane Ericson. In collaboration with former Threads Magazine editor David Coffin, Marcy developed 4 teaching CD-ROMs, including: On the Surface and Where Did You Get That T-Shirt? and Katherine created the CD-ROM, The Transformed T.
Marcy says, “I love teaching and communicating about sewing and clothes, fashion and fiber arts, because through this I continue to learn and grow.” Katherine says, ”I have a vivid memory of one of my first drawings — a woman sitting in a chair. What a great feeling of accomplishment when I’d satisfactorily solved the problem of how to depict her form in line on paper. That sense of satisfaction continues to be present as I create today. The art forms and materials used expand and contract to include drawing, painting, designing, sewing, sculpting — I love it all!”
The sisters luxuriate in creating everyday on a beautiful property in rural southwest Oregon, where they’ve each equipped themselves with their own fabulous working studios, as well as having a separate space for a fabric-filled Art Barn which Marcy offers for sale on her website, www.marcytilton.com.
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