Amy Tyler: the creative process

Amy Tyler’s talk on Sunday at Ontario Handweavers and Spinners biennial conference gave me pause to reassess my creative process. For a brief…

Amy Tyler: connections through a Petoskey stone

Designer Amy Tyler invokes the Petoskey stone, an important symbol of creative thinking for many artists.

Satisfying work is teaching me a new lesson about the need for relaxation. Some days we just need to come unplugged.

This morning at 6:30 ESDT there was a lunar eclipse. I took some photos just before a bank of clouds moved in.

Rituals are valuable. They help us focus and remember what matters to us. But we must not become slaves to activities that make…

On a walk through the conservation area behind our place at noon, Danny and I caught the frost just as the sun was…

Last night we went to see a lecture on colour by American artist Kaffe Fassett, famous for fabric and other decorative designs. I…

In a biography by Glenda Dawn Goss, Sibelius: A Composer’s Life and the Awakening of Finland (University of Chicago Press, 2009), I came…

Gratitude is grounding. Sitting on the back deck I want to be grateful for a few things to accompany this shot for photo…

On a Sunday morning photo ramble through the conservation area, I encountered this demure but lovely butterfly. It is Cercyonis pegala, the common…