Archive - Creating Wild with Jane Pike

Creating At The Edge Of Safety

What does it mean to be creatively confident?

Jul 13 •

Sh**ty Birds (yes, really): The rise of delightfully terrible birds

An art club for the creatively curious and outrageously imperfect

Jul 5 •

June 2025

When Self-Doubt Sounds Logical

What if it's not a bad idea, just a brave one?

Jun 26 •

Things I Bow To

The hare, the moon, the owl, the pohutukawa, kindness

Jun 22 •

Creating In A Dangerous Neighbourhood

Making art when the conditions are impossible

Jun 13 •

Art As Evidence

A creative nourishment note for your practice

Jun 5 •

Too Distracted To Create

Why modern life is draining our focus, and what we can do about it

Jun 1 •

May 2025

A Look Inside My Sketchbook

Notes from the margins, wild pages & what the community has been making

May 23 •

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How To Navigate the Storms of Our Modern-Day Vulnerability Economy

What it means to create and share and why your heart is not the product

May 15 •

The Art of Proving Yourself Wrong

Moving past the stories we tell ourselves

May 8 •

How To Get Creatively Unstuck In 18 Unclear Steps

An illustrated roadmap to the Land of Never Before

May 1 •

April 2025

Calm is not the goal

(and why searching for it might be getting in the way of your creative practice)

Apr 25 •

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