Life in the Studio: Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity Book

What makes a creative life? For artist and author Frances Palmer, it’s knitting all of one’s passions—all of one’s creativity—into the whole of life. Life in the Studio: Inspiration and Lessons on Creativity brings us into the rich inner world and artistic life of Palmer - and what an inspirational life it is! Stepping into Palmer’s carefully crafted world is to be surrounded by a life that has been intentionally—and painstakingly—constructed as a wellspring of creative inspiration. An airy, light-filled studio in which to make her pottery, cutting gardens that overflow for gathering as the mood strikes, museum catalogs and art tomes that spark the production of new pottery silhouettes and shelves of cookbooks to peruse as she mulls her next dinner party menu. With whimsy and exuberance Frances Palmer offers insights and tips throughout —the importance of centering, the discovery that clay has a memory, strategies for how to turn a passion into a business, the value to be found in coll