“You have to be curious about your own mind, your own ideas. Then you have to be curious about what you’re going to make. And then, to get good at it — at any art form — you have to be curious about what you can do with your medium.” ~ Deanne Fitzpatrick
Deanne Fitzpatrick is a virtuoso rug hooker. Her art looks like the love child of wool and Vincent Van Gogh.
She searches for–and finds–fresh and beautiful things in the world around her. Every day. She supports others in doing the same.
Deanne encourages all of us to lean into creating — creating beauty, creating community, and creating that all-essential time for ourselves.
And she has thoughts about how curiosity can help.
Blessed be the makers for they find hope in the unknown.
Listen to Choose to Be Curious #268: Creating Beauty, with Deanne Fitzpatrick
Deanne Fitzpatrick has a studio/shop/teaching community in Amherst, Nova Scotia. She hosts an instructive and inspiring podcast called “Create Beauty Everyday”, writes an equally thoughtful weekly blog, and has about six books to her name. She’s also a 2023 recipient of The Order of Canada, recognition for her work promoting rug hooking as an art form.
If you like this conversation, you might enjoy: The Craft of Creativity, with Matt Cronin; Slow Down, with Justine Ickes; Slow Looking and Visible Thinking, with Claire Bown; and Blending & Normalizing: Curiosity, Quilts & Juneteenth, with Andi Cullins.
Many thanks to Randi Cohen for connecting me and Deanne!
Theme music by Sean Balick;“Discovery Harbor” by CloudHarbor via Blue Dot Sessions.
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