Renate Roske-Shelton » Muse-ing The Young Self: Desert Dreaming

Art is a form of self-therapy. The activity of making simple creative decisions helps me to deep-process my past, remember big and small details of my life, mine these for feelings of comfort or pleasure and focus on the integration of recalled life moments with a wiser, more attentive and grateful now. I always learn from the facets (aspects) in the themes I happen to explore. Themes seem to present themselves to me and develop as I put brush to paper. As I start to paint I never quite know where the activity will take me, but I am always happy for having spent the time..