Where do you find inspiration?

I am looking forward to this week as I only have a 2 day week at the 'day job' (such joy!) and therefore I have finally been able to plan in a nice chunk of creative time for myself to play, experiment and just get back into things a bit more. It got me thinking as to where people look for inspiration or where they chance upon it without looking for it. It seems pretty limitless to me the places that people find inspiration.

I love finding mine in the natural environment around us, so many colours, textures and marks to be found. Inspiration can always be found hidden in the garden!

 

I love the colour combinations you can find, the shapes, patterns, lines and textures. I'm going to use the photos above for inspiration this week, using the shapes that I see, the colours, the lines, all evolving into something more abstract perhaps than a literal representation of what is seen.

So what fires your inspiration and creative imagination? Where do you look for it/find it?

Tea and cake

Brighton. Visiting my sister. Out having tea and cake. Purchasing new little friends - Pookis no less, Ernie and Norris from The Big Forest x

The Smokehouse

The other weekend we went on a little day jaunt to Folkestone. We had a stroll around, peering in the vibrant windows of the up and coming artists quarter whilst working up an appetite for our fish and chip treat. We went to The Smokehouse. It was lovely, very tasty indeed. Our fish and chips were served in small boxes while we sat on little wooden stools at wooden tables. The Smokehouse itself is a space (made from converting 3 buildings) with a high ceiling from which a sculpture/installation of a shoal of fish hangs in shiny metal; and has a wall of glass at one side through which you can look out to sea.

Definitely worth a visit if you are ever down that way x