HOW TO GET INTO A CREATIVE HEAD SPACE

Artist Ciaran Robinson (lhouette.com) has come up with some ideas to help you get creative at home. He writes: “Creating art is one of the best forms of escapism, a great therapy for mental health and personal wellbeing.”

Try his top tips to get started:

Artists need solitary time in a studio to be creative, so pretend you’re an artist working from your “home studio”.

Not everyone will have the space or budget to turn their home into Andy Warhol’s factory overnight, but shift furniture around to set up a designated creative space at home and use online art material websites to order supplies.

Find a genre, area and topic that really excites and speaks to you (for me it was pop art), but with understanding comes confidence to create art.

Try and keep your art near the front of your mind at all times, it’s like keeping a net out to cast.

Put a music playlist together that gets you feeling emotional and helps you to translate a story on to a blank canvas.

Keeping fit keeps your creative process sharp. Take notes and photos to create a mood board. Sometimes a phrase, lyric or article can inspire an idea and needs banking.

Experiment with more methods.

Sketch out studies, create digital proofs and visual throw-togethers before getting stuck into creating a main piece.

Things won’t always work out the way you envisioned, but don’t get disheartened. There’s loads of exciting lessons to be learnt from your mistakes and accidents when making art. The main thing is that you have a go.