Creativity Found: Finding Creativity Later in Life
Real-life stories of finding or returning to creativity in adulthood.
I'm Claire, and I re-found my creativity after a time of almost crippling anxiety. Now I want to share the stories of other people who have found or re-found their creativity as adults, and hopefully inspire many more grown-ups to get creative.
I chat with my guests about their childhood experiences of creativity and the arts, how they came to the creative practices they now love, the barriers they had to overcome to start their creative re-awakening, and how what they do now benefits their whole lives.
Want to be a guest on Creativity Found? Send me a message on PodMatch, here
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 132
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Maria Ramsey – a creative transition
I've caught Maria Ramsey at a reinvention stage, having made the decision to stop teaching music and to explore other avenues that feel more creatively fulfilling.
Maria is a multi-talented artist wh…
Rich Chambers keeps rocking
‘Getting back to being more me’. That’s how Rich Chambers describes just one of the wider benefits he has experienced from taking the decision to ramp up his musical pursuits in midlife.
As a teenager…
What is the Creativity Found Collective?
Promotion and networking for creative-activity businesses
The Creativity Found Collective offers multiple ways for members to connect and to promote what they do, and in this bonus podcast episode I d…
Ruth Chipperfield – science, silver and staying awake
'I was unaware that it wasn't normal to fall asleep when you're sat still.'
Ruth Chipperfield, a goldsmith and jewellery designer, had always experienced excessive tiredness, but didn’t think anything…
Fish Lee – from Smurfette to Life in the Blocks
How to ease the symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome and start drawing again, without spilling ink all over the carpet!
Guest Fish Lee tells me about how his local TV weatherman played a key part in his g…
Piano à Deux – music, marriage and modern technology
Facing fears and taking risks
Robert and Linda are classical pianists who have found a unique way to combine their music with comedy, stories, and improvisations.
But the shows they devised had never …
Piano à Deux - Mistresses to Manhattan
Playing piano together (one piano, four hands) was an experimental idea for married couple Linda and Robert, one that taught them a lot about themselves and each other, which you can find out all abo…
Natalie Smart – pro-active with patterns
Maybe it's not the right time, but never say never.
Natalie Smart loved working with textiles as a youngster, from hand knitting to making her own clothes. Unfortunately, Textiles as an A-Level subjec…
Claude Larson – problem solving in science and art
The science teacher who chose to break free from practicality, utility and patterns in textiles and paint.
This week’s podcast guest, Claude Larson, has been sewing for years, while also teaching scie…
Suzanne Noble – dirty blues and Dorothy Fields
Overcoming concerns about your singing voice post-menopause.
Suzanne Noble had concerns about the tone of her voice after not having used it for many years. However, as you’ll hear in the show, she ne…
Jill Phillips – publishing a family memoir in retirement
Childhood memories inspire a self-publishing project in retirement.
When Jill Phillips was growing up, creative pursuits such as painting and writing were not activities that her working-class communi…
Helen Hill – design, MS, baby rhinos and craft corner
How crafting can alleviate MS symptoms.
To keep her hands busy and her mind calm, Helen Hill crochets blankets for orphaned baby rhinos, among other things.
Her passions also help her to manage her MS …
Annie Sloan – dreaming, planning and painting
The inventor of the revolutionary Chalk Paint believes that everyone is creative.
Annie Sloan had a dreamy, independent young life, which continued into her business career, since without a dream and …
Rowena Roberts – authentic creativity
Helping you find your unique writing voice.
Just because you’ve got a solid background and experience in something that you are good at and successful in, doesn’t mean you have to stick with it if you…
More Than Work – Claire and Rabiah
Dance, books, drama and singing, and why making this podcast is so important to me.
For this episode I’m speaking with . . . well, actually, for this episode my friend and fellow podcaster Rabiah Coon…
Sally Ward on Sky's Portrait Artist of the Year
Sally Ward's experiences as a finalist on Sky TV's Portrait Artist of the Year competition
Sally Ward had to decline her well-earned place in Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year competition in 2019, but…
Sally Ward – policy advising and portrait painting
Why being an artist DOESN'T mean you have to do it full time
Career-wise, Sally Ward balances her roles as a civil servant and as a portrait artist, and finds fulfilment, enjoyment and challenges in e…
Gerry Coles update - teaching linocut
For this short and sweet bonus episode (while I'm on summer hols) I caught up with Gerry Coles (episode 3) to find out what's new in her world of linocut printmaking.
If you found value in this episod…
Cass Sabo bonus from Handmade in Oxford
In this short and sweet bonus episode (while I'm on summer hols) I caught up with Cass Sabo (episodes 3 and 22) to find out what's new in her world of weaving.
If you found value in this episode and w…
Ella Orr – starting from scratch
Ella Orr’s parents came to the UK from Mauritius in the 1960s and, understandably, they wanted Ella to do well academically. But they also wanted her and her sister to have a wider outlook and sent t…