Hollen Art Studio - Gallery & Work Environment

Some of David's remarkable sculpture work in his gallery space

Enjoy this glimpse into the studio of sculptor David Hollen (www.HollenArt.com). It's a prime example of utilizing a studio well -- the importance of having space for creating the work and a separate gallery space for displaying work when people visit the studio.

David's gallery is viewable beyond one of his work space tables

It's important to have a work space where you can give yourself plenty of room to spread out while developing and playing with ideas, make a temporary mess, yet have your supplies on hand be organized.  It's a delicate balance. You want to be organized so you can find what you need when you need it, but not too organized that it constricts your process. Creative energy wants to flow freely, but you want some confinement so the work becomes focused and clean. Since one of the hat's I wear is a professional organizer, I give David high ratings for balancing those aspects. It's a neverending battle for artists to manage order and chaos in their work spaces. Keep at it until you find a system that works for you.


A work table, with creative ideas flowing all over, but managably so. 

Supplies kept organized to help with the cleaning process.

A wall of inspirational photos and rough sketches to stimulate ideas and map progress.

And what is also great about David's artwork, is that there is so much fun to be had by isolating various parts of his work and his studio through framing. Enjoy!

Tabula Rasa

A blank slate, a clean slate, a fresh start, a new page...

The new year offers new opportunities to take on the transformative process for Your ReBegin. It's a great time of year to start up new endeavors, but also a great time for clearing the slate for what last year was.  Don't skip over the important step of clearing the decks! Allow yourself time to be with nothingness. You can't fill a container that is already full, so after the mad rush of energy that was likely expended toward the end of the year holidays, means January is great for recharging the batteries. Take a breath and allow yourself to slow down a little - empty out. And within that period of nothingness, comes renewed inspiration for the journey ahead.

In the cycle of life, winter in the northern hemisphere is time for slowing down, breaking down the life from the previous year to use as fertilizer for new life.

Worried about past mistakes or overwhelmed with too much on the mind? This is a great time to unleash any baggage or past hindrance to your creativity and tap into your pure potential. Wipe everything else away and start from scratch. Enjoy the refreshing beauty.

Do you fear the idea of nothingness, emptiness? Frightened of a blank canvas, the blank page? Embrace the void as a great place to be - let yourself sit with that for as long as needed. We tend to feel like we have to fill our lives with busy-ness in order to feel alive, but we are part of nature and need to follow the natural rhythm. Just as fields benefit from being fallow from time to time to replenish their nutrients, so must we to recharge the creativity we expend. All manner of life is working beneath the surface, unseen to the eye, but with processes most important for us. Our unconscious mind will come up with all manner of creative ideas to birth out of the blank slate.

HAPPY NEW YEAR (in the Gregorian Calendar that is) 

2011 is a wonderful new canvas for life: 

Enjoy what manifests!