INTERVIEW WITH THE CREATIVE ARTIST- KHAAYMAR MARIE

Khaaymar marie is a  Talented photographer, Designer, Artist and a Thinker .Being Self taught and having never went to college made her form own road leading  to discover art in its true fashion without any boundaries.

She has always been fascinated by the ability to capture an Image, to hold it there and see the emotion of it never fading away.

Her work today is very colourful and mainly spontaneous, Loves to just be able to throw colours together and end up with something familiar in life.

She is connected to wildlife, nature, animals which has helped to become more  free in the journey of life.
Heylos had a chance to interview such a amazing talented person and know her thoughts on Art and life.
Her professional portfolio can be found here:

How is art important in people’s lives? 

Art is very important and exists for many reasons. I don't think there really is one simple answer. Art is important as music. We are somehow drawn to it since long ago, cave art for example. Art plays a part in many lives worldwide and seems to be very necessary. Without creativity many things would not even exist !

Do you have a favorite artist? Why do you like him/her? 

I don't have a favorite, I like many artists all for different reasons.

What's your favorite place to see art?Do you have a gallery/museum-going routine? 

I see art everywhere..in gates, walls, galleries , fashion, Nature..

Do you own any pieces of art? If so, what are they?

 A zebra on canvas, African woman painted by a friend,stained glass created by a friend..various hand made items.

What’s your favorite piece of work that you have created? 

Solitaire is a favorite :This is Ipseity  one of the Solitaire series.

What are you working on at the moment?

I am working with fashion in collaboration with another artist and enjoying it. 

Do you sell your work? If so Where all do you sell your work? 

I sell my work online and I also do commissioned work. 

Do you think your country’s government gives enough financial support to local artist?

 The British government makes no ­specific social provision for artists, unless through the 

publicly funded ­regional arts councils.   

Do you make a living off your art?

Not entirely yet !!!. :)

What are you doing when you’re not creating? What (other) hobbies do you have? 

Photography , music, tap dancing wildly :) gardening, walking miles,D.I.Y, learning clarinet...and more

What would people be surprised to learn about you? 

I have no degrees, hardly went to school,never went to college, self taught  in art and many other things... 

Technically, what would you consider to be a piece of art? Why?Anything created by someone from their imagination or from various mediums to represent something ..  

I love this quote ... ''There is no single definition of art" William Rubin 

Do you have any tips or inspiring words for others? 

Be creative , it frees your mind and do not be put off by what you can't do now..art is a skill.You can learn

Where else can we find you? 

https://twitter.com/khaaymar          

http://about.me/khaaymar.marie         

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/khaaymar-marie/24/898/33 

Creative! How to be creative and generate ideas

Often creative folks are told and come across these familiar phrases tossed “give me your best idea, best design till date, when can u give me, I would like to see it other way around.”

But how realistic is it to be creative on demand? If you were asked to come up with a worthwhile idea for a book, or painting, or project, right now, could you do it?

It’s all in our head. Yes it sounds simple but it is the fact. Yet Y do we struggle? And some others appear to be capable of doing it so effortlessly.

Creativity is a way of thinking. It’s something each of us is born with the capacity to use. We regularly do use it without realizing. Because creativity is way of thinking, it exists entirely in our brains. We make various connections within our brain and they change and grow accordingly with us when we age.

We start to focus on certain aspect which influences us through friends, parents and many other outer factors, the more we see and learn from various kinds of things, places ,people and experience them the more influential ideas start to form.

So how possibly generate creative ideas on demand?

This is where timeless creative practices come into play. Initially it requires you to actively pursue the unknown and force ideas and their changes in your mind.

Ideas readily come to those who are able to imagine changing any aspect of an idea without giving much thought whether you will fail or is it the good one. In short: “Do not worry about the end results”.

When it comes to being creative, the more ideas you have, the more likely you are to come up with great ones.

This is true from countless scientific researches:

“Studies from the University of California Davis and MIT have shown that groups who produce a large amount of bad ideas also tend to produce the most amounts of good ideas as well.”

If you all just remember your childhood days and think of situation how we used to make so many things out of a lying paper around. U could make a boat, a simple flying plane, a pillow, a mini pointed telescope, and cut those paper to pieces and join them back, so many...Why? Because our mind was curious to know many things, how does it look like if it’s put this way? Y does it look like this? All this without thinking whether it looks good or bad.

This feeling slowly evaporates but some people get addicted to this kind of thought and grow along with it to become creative genius.

So why do many of us struggle to be creative on the spot?

One possible reason is the stress and judgmental attitude towards oneself and the abilities.

When we feel pressured we psychologically put ourselves into focusing so sharply on the task that we fail to step back and see what’s possible by breaking the individual attributes of the task itself.

One easy way to break the psychological constraints is to turn your task into a game of play. Play allows us to remove the stress of the real thing going on.

 “Our mind and brain are similar like any computers where the data need to be archived and backed up so to put additional data in there” ,Hence writing down all the ideas which come up in your mind helps you think better in other ways, keeping in mind not to have any  pre-conceived notions and judgments.

Initially this is going to be tough on your mind, but they say practice makes u perfect.

If you feel that you’re struggling to come up with more ideas, then consider what might be missing (Curiosity, energy, awareness, etc.)

More to Come…….www.heylos.com