I always had this inkling that there was something more out there for me .
This is even before I'd suggested that that might be the way that I wanted to go . You're not doing theatre . Keep it as a hobby .
It was just like I was slotting into part of me that had been waiting there , that I hadn't used for 40 years . Being creative isn't a one-trick pony . You don't just do painting . You don't just do 3D . You can be creative in cooking and what you're wearing , how you decorate your house .
I would have done anything to stop , but I didn't know what was wrong and I didn't know why it was happening . So , yeah , that made life pretty tough growing up .
So , going back and writing a play about our trauma and seeing how much it helped on par with therapy , on par with medication , on par with regular exercise , it genuinely was a huge part of our healing and our trauma recovery .
The sort of experience of that I think percolated away in my brain for another sort of 5 , 10 years , before it all popped out in the form of oil painting . This specific definition of creativity and watching this documentary reframed that for me and really just expanded my definition of what creativity was with just like so many things .
Hi , I'm Claire , founder of Creativity Found For this podcast . I chat with people who have found or re-found their creativity as adults . We'll explore their childhood experiences of the arts , discuss how they came to the artistic practices they now love and consider the barriers they may have experienced between the two .
We'll also explore what it is that people value and gain from their new found artistic pursuits and how their creative lives enrich their practical , necessary everyday lives .