Creativity Rules

I am a big believer in approaching all tasks with a creative attitude. If everyone was doing this, most of our social and economic problems would be minimised to nothing. If we all were thinking about how we could add to or create more/better, there would constantly be more and better.

I do realise that our daily challenges and struggles are the very things that erode our creative energy and make us feel like we're living in a bog. I have never been to a Creative Cape Town Cluster before, but there is one on tonight. I am going to rub shoulders with people that apply creativity to their daily functions, and some of that will rub off on me.

This is off Creative Cape Towns Facebook Page...

After a break of a six months and following a successful 3-day intensive Creative Cape Town Clusters at the Design Indaba Expo, Creative Cape Town Clusters are back again. This time we will meet at a new venue – the Cape Town City Hall in Darling Street for a very special Creative Cape Town Clusters.

At this event, we will be launching three new Creative Cape Town products: the Creative Cape Town Annual in partnership with Bell-Roberts Publishing; the Explore Creative Cape Town map published by A&C Maps with designs by Design Infestation; and the new Creative Cape Town website designed by Beanbag Media will all be made public. These products have been made possible with the support of Cape Town Tourism and the Central City Improvement District. The products establish the key communication channels of Creative Cape Town into the future and add to existing channels like this monthly newsletter and our Facebook Fan page.

As always we have three dynamic speakers at the Clusters. For this Clusters, each of the speakers have some connection with our new products. Come listen to Michelle Matthews who edited the Annual and wrote for our website speaking on words and creativity; Jason Bagley who designed the new website speak on websites, blogs and social networking and Phillip Todras and Christo Maritz who created our map speak on Cape Town, maps and design.

I will let you know if I make any fabulous connections for our festival.

Beth Freeman-Kane - Wildlife Miniaturist

A brief biography.

Born in Australia in 1966, Beth came to South Africa with her family in 1970, where she has lived ever since.

Within the specialised field of miniature art, she is entirely self-taught, having displayed from the age of six a natural talent and passion for creating in miniature. This passion combined naturally with her other great love - for wildlife, mainly birds, to produce a style of work which is unique in its concept and execution.

Beth specialises in exquisitely detailed sculpture compositions of birds and their habitats, producing work that is recognised as being of a consistently high standard by the miniature art fraternity. As a result, her work is in great demand and she is one of the finest examples of the artists currently involved in the world wide revival in Miniature Art as a fine art form.

She has membership in the Miniature Art Society of South Africa, the Miniature Art Society of Florida, USA and the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers of Washington, DC, also in the USA, which are all linked to the World Federation of Miniaturists.

She is also a member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans having qualified for the status of Artisan. She has been invited to teach a class at the IGMA Summer School in 2010.

Beth travels to the United States of America at least once a year to exhibit, and is regularly involved in Juried shows both internationally and locally. In South Africa, she has been one of the top sellers at the prestigious Art In The Park, held annually in Pietermarizburg, for the past 10 years.

She has collections of work in 3 museums in South Africa and in the United States of America.

Beth has won seventeen international awards to date, including the People's Choice Award for Best Artist On Show at the World Exhibition of Miniatures in 2008.

Beth lives in Assagay in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, surrounded by a husband, three children, dogs, cats, gerbils, goats, various hamsters and birds and a pot-bellied pig called Petunia!

It doesn't get better than this...

Dave Ferguson, Shiraz, Riebeek Kasteel and a free expression of your creative inner child. I highly recommend that you call Li to make a booking on 082 854 6087 or visit her site: www.loveart.co.za
Her bubbly nature is a breath of spring air and if you can't get to Riebeek Kasteel, you can catch her at the Walk of Art Festival in November.