by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Creativity, talking about art
Art is all around us, I’ve said this many times. It is a great exercise to talk to children about the art they see – that does not only mean visits to the gallery – but artwork for sale in shops, sculptures, street art, garden sculptures, art in...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | business thinking, Creativity
Imagine my excitement when I opened the January-February Top 1,000 issue of Australia’s Business Review Weekly to see an article on Australia’s lack lustre innovation quotient. Excitement…Nicky, you may ask, this is not a good article… Well...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Inspiration
I promise this is not what is seems, with valentine’s day drawing nearer and all! I was inspired by a newsletter I received from ‘Seth Goden and the friendly folk at the Domino Project’ – if you are not on the mailing list do yourself a...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | brain development, education
So dear readers, my quest to validate creative thinking has lead me to an excellent article by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. on the Psychology Today blog (back in May 2010) “Want Children to “Pay Attention”? Make Their Brains Curious!” Funny that...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | arts participation, revolutionary art
For those of you not familiar with the ‘TED’ talks they stand for Technology, Education, Design. Their motto is ‘ideas worth spreading’ and it is the most wonderful powerhouse of information from creative and intelligent thinkers movers and...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Creativity, drawing, positive thinking
I was inspired by a newsletter I received from Scout Wilkins a gorgeous soul who’s web statement reads “embark on your grandest adventure, clear the doubt & follow your heart”…what a message! The title of the newsletter was “The...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jan 2012 | arts participation, education
Earlier in the year I was alerted to an article that made my interest radar beep – the headline “10 Lessons the Arts Teach” … Oh yes, I jumped for joy as I hurriedly clicked through. This summary was prepared by Kim Hermanson, Ph.D.,San Rafael...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jan 2012 | Doodling
I was just too excited when I came across the news article in the UK Guardian titled “Doodling should be encouraged…” – OK it is from February 2009….but I don’t think much has changed in brain development to discount the idea so...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jan 2012 | brain development, Creativity, right brain, Uncategorized
Once upon a time it was considered that our beautiful brains operated in halves, or hemispheres. To break it down to it’s simplest form – the left is predominantly the rational, analytic, logical, detail loving side. The Right non-linear and instinctive...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jan 2012 | Creativity, thinking
Here is a small presentation I made to give you the quick and dirty on being creative and the benefits of living an artful life. The importance to children’s development and as they become well rounded adults able to adapt and change their thinking to the many...
