In part 1 and part 2 on this subject I’ve been looking at how tuning into your inner smart meter can really help you become more efficient, healthy and happy as an artist. How do you read the dial on your smart meter? To tune in to your energy levels, for example, you can assign …
In the first part, I wrote about the idea of having an internal smart meter and how we can attune to it. For artists, who often work freelance or have unusual work schedules, this is particularly vital. On reading up about smart meters, it’s uncanny how far the metaphor extends, as you’ll see… Smart meters …
The other morning, I woke up with an image before me – the tail-end of a dream. Someone had installed a meter next to me on my right-hand side. I knew it belonged to me now – in fact, it seemed to be part of me. “I know,” I said to myself, half asleep, “it’s …
The author at six, already making soup. As a performer, do you find it hard to get down to practise? Or do you feel like you’ve never done enough? Or maybe both? As a kid, it was just compulsory- a set time for piano practice every day, with no discussion. I had hoops to jump …
The very first self-help book I ever read (and I’ve read a lot) was Susan Jeffers’ “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway” back in the ‘90’s. It was revolutionary for me for many reasons- such a practical book, easy to read and full of ways to help you wake up and become more aware …
Dear Creative Artists, How are you feeling today? How are you adapting to your new reality? If you’re like me, you may have felt really knocked off balance by recent events. As creative artists, we already have to deal frequently with uncertainty, criticism and rejection from peers, teachers and employers. Dealing with not passing exams …
How creative artists can support ourselves and each other under these unique circumstances.
A while ago, I began to realise that a strange thing was happening to me. Every time I was invited to a wedding, something went terribly and bafflingly awry. When one of my best friends asked me to bring something meaningful to place on the altar at her wedding I knew just the thing– a …
When I was an active and successful concert pianist playing recitals in Britain and across Europe, one of my main focuses was practice. I was most often playing repertoire chosen by others, as I was a collaborative pianist working with singers and instrumentalists. One moment I would be working on a Brahms cello sonata, the …
I’m always fascinated to meet new clients, particularly when they come from far-flung parts of the globe. I’m an inveterate traveller myself, and started young, living on three different continents by the age of seven. Maps, globes and atlases have always attracted me. Here’s a map Robert made for me of some of the locations of my …