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Beyond Words: Touching the Essence

30 October 2025 by Jen Waller

Against a black background, a burst of coloured powder — pink, orange, yellow, blue — explodes outward, vibrant and full of movement. Above it, in white text, is the quote: “It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint — essence.” (Emily Carr) The image captures the energy of creative expression and the beauty of what can’t be put into words.

Some things can’t be explained, they can only be felt. Essence often lives in the pause before understanding, quietly shaping what we create.
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Creativity That Doesn’t Need to Prove Itself

20 July 2025 by Jen Waller

A digitally illustrated image of a torn-paper-style nature collage. At the top is a brown-paper sky with the quote in black text: "Art is man's nature; nature is God's art." (Philip James Bailey) Below are torn layers of mountains, waves, and earth in various textures and colours: grey stone, turquoise water, white crests, brown rock, and snowy peaks.

What if, despite what we sometimes believe, there’s a naturalness to creativity?
Not just in paint and poetry, but in the way we can approach solving problems, connect with others, or see the world differently.
What if art isn’t something separate from us, but something we’re already part of?

>Nature doesn’t try to impress. It just expresses.
And maybe, so can we, when we’re not caught up in trying too hard.