Arts
Rebecca is a southwest-based multi-passionate creative; photographer, jeweler, painter, and writer. She likes keeping her hands and mind busy, in the studio and out in nature. She has self-published over 20 artist books. She makes jewelry by hand with recycled gold and silver, conflict-free diamonds and ethically sourced stones. She uses natural light and elements to tell stories with her photography. Her paintings focus on light and highlight climate change.In this episode, we chatted about what it is like to be a multi-passionate with an interdisciplinary approach towards making art.This episode is more like a casual conversation where Becca is sharing her story, how she sees the world and what has shaped her approach. If you consider yourself a multi-passionate too, this episode will encourage you to give permission to follow your curiosities in a way that works for you and keep going.Here's what we talk about in this episode:a little intro about Rebecca and her workhow she juggles and makes time for all these different creative ventureswhat helps her in making time for writingfiguring out ways to clear the head and making time to do nothingher experience of going to art schoolwhere the interdisciplinary approach comes fromstruggles of being a multi-passionatehow she manages her focusnot making everything about working or making money but having a few things to do as a hobbybuilding healthy habits: carving more time for readingfinding goals that have nothing to do with work like training for a marathon so you are not always in the studiowhat following your curiosity looks likecarving out time where there are no expectations so you are letting yourself to be curiousthe importance of being boredmanaging time and your energies along the wayreconnecting with your own creativity when you start to feel overwhelmedthe artists way inspired activities that help: morning pages and artist datesimportance of asking yourself questions that move you forwardhow to tackle the overwhelm and busy monthsalways learning something new and staying engagedher collection of paintings on the climate change - in her own words, ''things we don't see, things we can't see and things we won't see because it is all changing so much''we create connections by visual artwork and sharing our thoughts in that waythe different mediums give you different kinds of opportunities and lifestylesself-employment and the need for human interactioncurrent struggles along the lines of recovering from burnout and too much work and staying inspiredthe struggles with connection, internet, and social media as solace for self-employed creatives but also, it is taking over our livesrelationship with Instagram - Instagram and connectionlearning to balance the use of social media and putting the phone downother sides of small business: accounting, finances and administration taskslearning to be more efficientthe creative process on a day to day basis and how she likes to spend her daysthe role of planning ahead of time and having a bigger picture in her workenjoying the flexibility that comes with working for yourselfstaying motivated on a day to day basisliving close to nature and how it inspires her creative processFind links to the resources we discuss in the full show notes.Rebecca's website and InstagramHira's website and InstagramFinding Your Focus as a Multi-passionate ebookBlog posts for multi-passionate creative humans:A letter to multi-passionate creatives28 insights from a multi-passionate creativeStruggles of a multi-passionateSign up for 'A letter from me to you'