Episode 43: Tess Guinery on Surrendering to the Creative Process
“Surrender, in the small and in the big..”
-Tess Guinery, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Tess Guinery. Tess is a dancer by upbringing, a designer by trade, and an artist by calling. After graduating from the Karl Von Busse Institute of Design in Australia, she soon established herself as a sought-after creator, but with design work bursting at the seams, Tess intuitively pressed pause prompted to take a sabbatical to explore her inner artist, to express, and ultimately to create unbound— which led her to the making of her tangible art piece, The Apricot Memoirs and then The Moonflower Monologues. These days, Tess calls the wholesome town of Murwillumbah home with her stuntman husband and their three spirited daughters. Her art is in the everyday. In this episode, Madison and Tess speak on art as a way of life and living the creative process. They touch on this through topics ranging from communing with God and source, parenting, following what we hear in our businesses and surrendering to what we hear as we move through our life flow.
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
Our relationship with art as a way of being and living
Tess's roots with creativity and becoming an artist
The creative journey of life
Having an open dialogue and devotional process with something more
Grace, curiosity and the power of being the childlike nature
Parenting, prayer and allowing our children their own open dialogue with life
Witnessing our children's essence and fostering it
Listening to the shifts and Tess's unintentional sabbatical
When what doesn't make sense...begins to make sense
Surrendering and silencing the inner critic in our life flow
Adaptability, rigidity and owning our strengths
Writing and creating without bounds and being vulnerable in our art
Our need for beautiful things and a spiritual practice
