Regulating Feelings with Mixed Media Art Dear Creative Friend, I wanted to pop into your inbox today because I’ve just shared a new free video on my YouTube channel, and it felt like the right moment to reach out. Things feel… a lot right now. Many people I speak to are carrying a sense of heaviness, tension, Read More
Woman Unleashed – The Greatest Hits! Dear Creative Friend, I have some exciting news! 😃 Woman Unleashed is Back! And guess what? It will be it’s the 20th season, so the wonderful Amber is running The Greatest Hits Addition! Here is a bit more information about it: For the past 10 years, more than 185,000 women have Read More
Ugly Art, New Art Supplies & a Sweet Kitten Dear Creative Friend, So… I did something a bit brave this week. I filmed a full flip-through of my latest art journal and I’m sharing all of it with you. The finished pieces, the half-finished bits, the messy experiments, the “hmm… not sure about that one”, and Read More
Join The Cozy Fest 🍁 Dear Creative Friend, As the weather here in the Northern hemisphere turns to dark, cold and COZY, I’m excited to let you know of a new creative bundle I’ve joined this year: The Cozy Fest! The Cozy Fest is creative bundle which contains a collection of workshops, courses and eBooks that help Read More
Hey lovely friends! Last month, we had an amazing time dishing out numerous giveaways as part of the Year of Magic and Fairy Tales Taster Sessions. We were thrilled to award a total of 42 spots for A Year of Magic and Fairy Tales. The recipients of these spaces were randomly selected, and it’s important Read More
✨ Episode 4 – Creative Sanctuary ✨ Dear Creative Friend, Sending bright blessings on your day! ✨🙌✨ I hope you are well and happy in your corner of the world. This week, I’m back with the wonderful Jen (therapist, creative soul, and all-round wisdom-bringer) for a free & fresh episode on my YouTube channel. Read More
✨ Step into the Art Oasis with Me ✨ Dear Creative Friend, I know we’ve literally just finished the tasters for A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales but I wanted to let you know about another amazing free art event I’m sure you’d love to join and it’s starting in only 2 days! Read More
✨ My Newest Solo Course is Now Open for Registration! ✨ Hello, lovely ones! I’m SO excited! My newest course ‘Creating Cuties’ is now open for registration! This last month I’ve had the joy and pleasure to be working on a series of paintings (and lessons) that contain basically THE CUTEST CHARACTERS you’ve ever seen! Many Read More
✨ Hope Crafts Group – A Year of Light Scholarship ✨ Hello, lovely ones! Some happy news! For my year long courses I often give out group scholarships to those in need! In addition to other philanthropy projects; his is one of the ways I hope to spread joy, compassion, love and support! This Read More
✨ New Episode – Creative Sanctuary ✨ Dear Creative Friend, How are you really doing these days? If you’re anything like me, you might be feeling weary, depleted, even carrying a quiet (or not-so-quiet) grief about the state of the world. It can feel like a lot, can’t it? So much pain, so much uncertainty. It’s Read More
✨ FREE *NEW* Video – Art Journaling with Tam ✨ Dear Creative Friend, I’m in a particular kind of exhausted but blissful state of happiness after having just run 2 amazing weeks of Mastering Mixed Media! This was truly an incredible event with over 27k beautiful creative souls joining! Thank you to all of you who attended and Read More
✨ Creative Sanctuary with Tam & Jen ✨ Episode 2: Collage & Anger Dear Creative Friend, I’m super excited to let you know that Jen and I have just finished our 2nd episode of Creative Sanctuary with Tam & Jen! This time we discuss the feeling of anger, feeling our feelings and Jen shares a healing collage Read More
Rapunzel – Freed.
I went on quite a journey with this painting. Reading the original Grimm version of Rapunzel deeply moved me: her long, beautiful hair cut by the witch who raised her, her exile into the wilderness while pregnant with twins, her survival of all that hardship, and finally her becoming the one who saves the prince.
To me, this is true female empowerment. I wanted to paint Rapunzel as defiant and transformed. And crucially, I wanted to give her long hair again - not as a ladder, not as something to be used or admired by others, but as a reclamation of power. A part of her body that was once appropriated becomes fully her own again.
Teaching on A Year of Magic & Fairy Tales; I`m loving diving deep into the original fairy tales, myths and stories and bringing one or other aspect alive of these stories on the page.
This piece is a `paint over collage` painting. We start off by laying down our collage elements and then layer paint, crayons, markers, acrylics, gold leaf etc on top. A deeply layered and moving process. 😍😍😍
I adore how this came out. I`m particularly in love with the lavenders, hot pink and layer collage pieces in this painting.
Last night a journal session to process *waves at all of this*. This spread went through a lot of changes. I filmed it all! Will be on the channel soon. 😘
Revisiting this beauty from 2 years ago. I intended her as a class but she somehow didn’t make the cut! I love her now and disagree with past Tam!
Friendly reminder; you`ve only ever been fabulous babe. 😃 Spread the word! You are fabulous, loved and awesome. 😊 ♥️♥️♥️
