Ep 3: EMPOWERING WOMEN through ART with Ros Gervay

Season #1

OVERVIEW:

In this episode I’m talking with artist and business coach - Ros Gervay about her many exciting projects, the artists’s journey and how women can empower themselves through art.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  • Ros’s journey from a background in design and primary teaching to becoming a full time artist and artist business coach
  • How Ros has developed a confidence super power despite being an introvert through her art practice
  • The challenges and opportunities in applying this confidence to a new singing hobby or other new endeavours
  • The transformation in understanding how creative practices can be a spiritual practice Ros’s discusses her challgenes with creative space and flow in pereparing artworks for the Sydney Affordable Art Fair 
  • The difference between being an artist in business making money from your art and being an artist creating art for the process
  • The process of creating Ros’s delightful and fun wall mural projects Inspiring artist empowerment stories from Ros’s Artist Business Coaching program
  • The beauty in the art process with no attachment to the outcome
  • The importance of play and exploration in a creative practice

GUEST INFORMATION:

Ros is a business coach for new and rising artists, helping her clients to develop the confidence to show up as an artist, sell their work and master their marketing so they can build a fulfilling art business and get paid to do what they love even if they are self-taught.

She is also a practicing modern botanical artist based in Sydney, creating stunning vibrant abstract art inspired by nature. Ros uses beautiful splashes of colour and her work often features the most glorious almost fluro pink.

Her work is regularly featured in a number of Australian galleries, has been a finalist in the Unearthed Art prize and somehow she finds the time to take on amazing wall mural projects, co hosts a podcast and is currently getting artworks ready for the Sydney affordable art fair.

Ros’s FREE facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/permissiontopaintfreecommunity

Website: https://www.permissiontopaint.co/

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/rosgervayart/

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XkuZ4KuoUgy3Shu7IpmjN

Ros’s Art: https://rosgervayart.com/

OTHER INFO:

Ros mentions two other artists in the interview. Their social detail are as follows:

Karen Buenger https://instagram.com/artbykaren.buenger

Brhody Wallis https://instagram.com/brhodywallisart

Ros also mentions a book - “The Artist’s Way" - by Julia Cameron

Sydney Affordable Art Fair - https://affordableartfair.com/fairs/sydney


HOST INFORMATION:

Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures.

Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world.

By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Their unique creativity is simply a way to tap into and access this inner power and wisdom.



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