Joy's Creative Space

                            Kiss of the Muse Creative Coaching Pilot Program  I am creating an E book and putting together material for intuitive and creative coaching skills. I am offering a free pilot program for those who are interested partnering with me to create your own dreams. The practice will include keeping an on-going journal of your process, inner work, meditation, creative assignments, dream boards, intuitive development, goal setting, and contracting, visualization, affirmations, and one to one individual partnering. I am a multimedia artist, creative facilitator, exp ressive art coordinator and art teacher, intuitive counselor and spiritual consultant, women’s group leader and owner of the Joy of Art Studio. I have been in the creative and intuitive field for twenty five years and I work with all forms of creativity both in my own art and working with children ...

  Series of Eco Jewelry created from "Green" material. I transform plastic by melting and changing the form into something that can be cut and molded and looks more organic. Plastic is a wonderful material for jewelry and much like the ancient artist who used whatever they had to create their art, it is vital that artists use material that is  trash or objects that is ordinarily recycled. Plastic can also be transformed into something beautiful through the alchemy of the creative process.

    Eco Jewelry by Joy Hellman I save my plastic in bins in my studio basement and paint it as I go sometimes with just paint that I have left over from painting projects in my classes I am ready to do a project I use either a blow dryer or a heat-gun depending on what I want to do and what kind of plastic I am using. They all change in unique ways and create different effects.. I have experimented to discover how the plastic transforms and now even though I am open to the unexpected and there are always those in the creative process, I now work with it with purpose and a method that have improved upon in time. Plastic is a wonderful material for artists to use and I am just one among many who working with plastic as a resource in their work. After the  piece is finished I use a variety of found objects sometimes entrapping them in the melted plastic and other times glued. I have used anything that I have in my stash as long as it is small enough for the piec...

                                                            Joy Hellman Mixed media artist and owner of Joy of Art Studio Painting in front of Eve Avery Downtown Southern Pines  o n a beautiful spring day. My ladies can be seen at her store and at Retro's next door to the Joy of Art Studio  

Creativity is a Journey     Creativity is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the your comfort zone and fearlessly jump into the unknown , listen to the calling of your muse and follow Her voice What you’ll discover will be wonderful! What you’ll discover is yourself! I always try to remember this wisdom when I prepare for a new class or workshop, trying out a new technique or beginning a new project. And when I am learning something new I also try to remind myself that experts are not born, they are made. I also believe that we all start from the beginning each time we create.. That at one time they too were beginners, filled with self doubt, left wondering if they would ever learn whatever task it was they set out to learn. If I have a passion to truly learn something then I have to also learn to set aside my need for instant gratification and experience some discomfort in order to come out on the other side. And boy can that be...