Meet Sidd Murray-Clark

An interview with Siddhena by Bold Journey, published on September 26, 2024

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sidd Murray-Clark. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sidd below.

Sidd, thank you so much for joining us and offering your lessons and wisdom for our readers. One of the things we most admire about you is your generosity and so we’d love if you could talk to us about where you think your generosity comes from.

Remembering

Wonder

When we allow the boundaries between our nature and the world around us to blur and melt away we are no longer separate from the big picture and we taste ‘The Connection’. Indifference gives way to enthusiasm and we see how deeply we are involved, how creativity is both our pulse and the universal heartbeat.

I can remember an early ‘undivided’ experience in nature when I was about 6 years old. My family lived in the beautiful countryside in southern England at the time. The field next-door contained so many flint rocks, dull and ordinary on the outside but crystalline inside. I loved to collect these stones for their wonderful sculptured shapes and hidden crystal quality, sitting for hours putting them together in different ways.

One day I found some with the sunlight glinting on their humble crystalline centers, and when I got up to leave I could see that same glinting and sparkling everywhere around me.

This small childhood experience became a beacon to life’s wonders and my passion to share them.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

These days I call myself an artist and then I wonder what nature calls herself.

As an art student, I studied theater design, a choice I made simply to be able to study many different media. The system at the time required specialization, and I wanted diversity!

Looking back I can see that I was already unwilling to limit the ways in which my imagination might take form. Theater offered a rich seam of metaphor to explore, and it was a time for multi-layered and diverse expressions. As time has passed this early multi-media experience has proven pivotal to my development as an artist. It gave me the diversity I longed for, teaching me to respond to a multitude of creative challenges and at the same time drew my attention toward the need for an essential and more critical design sensibility. It finally challenged me to find a deeper and ultimately more personal language in my art.

Life seems to be an ongoing interaction between the inner and the outer. So

is the process of making art.

This understanding has been my compass for transformation. Although for years I have practiced meditation as a method of self-observation, the very process of painting as a mirror to oneself comes far more naturally to me. Simply, it has always been a part of me. In this way painting becomes mindfulness in that it contains both exploration and distillation. In the early 90’s, through this channel of focused self-inquiry, painting found its real place in me. It has always been my most intimate form of expression.

Painting for me has a self-restorative quality. At first this was instinctive. Later it became more intentional, and as life unfolds, it has become the actual theme of the painting.

Humans are naturally expressive and expression calls out to be seen and heard. In my approach, my art is constantly changing and that wonder that leads me inspires a constant exploration into new materials and process. And I equally love to inspire this in others. With this in mind I started ‘Creative Vision for Life’ as a platform for teaching this inspirational process offering courses retreats and events.

As this journey has developed I put it down in words and created a book, titled Being Creative: Creative Being. It intends to enhance the inner and outer process of living through expressive painting.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Curiosity

Courage

Creative Response to Life

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?

Wisdom can be found in any and every situation. Easy to say but so true. It can be an epiphany but also as subtle as a breeze. It can also not be so apparent at first and reveal itself to you when you are ready.

Be alert, be 360.

My teachers are still with me all the time. Wisdom and understanding are not bound by time and place. Our availability is what we need to attend too.

Contact Info

Website: www.siddart.com – www.creativlife.net

Instagram: gallery_quiet siddmclark

Facebook: Quiet Sidd Murray-Clark Creative Vision for Life

Image Credits: all photos by Sidd Murray-Clark

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