by Louise Lalande | Feb 20, 2026 | Art, Art for Health, artPlay, Creative Process, Mental Health
Painting is often intuitive for me. It acts as a mirror — capturing emotions and sensations as they are, even when I already have some awareness of them. The act of painting helps me acknowledge where I’m at. Sometimes I think or talk through the work afterwards, and...
by Louise Lalande | Feb 12, 2026 | artPlay, Art for Health
This whole thing started with a couple of tiny creatures that were gifted to me that sparked something. I decided to make my own. Mr. and Mrs. Calypso were my first spontaneous attempt in 2008. Working with materials at hand, I cut up one of my old shirts to turn it...
by Louise Lalande | Oct 26, 2021 | Art for Health, Creativity, Wellness
Shaun McNiff has created guides to embracing the ups and downs of the artistic process and allowing them to carry you along your unique creative journey. He brilliantly captures the core ideas and describes what I have been able to feel, sense, and transform through...
by Louise Lalande | Oct 26, 2021 | About Louise, Art, Art for Health, Creativity, Happiness, Painting, Wellness
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” — Kurt...
by Louise Lalande | Oct 26, 2021 | About Louise, Art, Art for Health, Gratitude, Painting, Wellness
We all share something in common, the energy that flows through us, individually as well as universally. This energy is almost indescribable since it isn’t as clear to our senses, but it is real. Energy is as difficult to explain as trying to describe colour to a...
by Louise Lalande | Oct 25, 2021 | About Louise, Art for Health, artPlay, Creativity, Happiness, Mandalas, Mental Health, Wellness
I don’t exactly remember how I came to love mandalas so much, or when I first started my love affair with mandalas. What I do know with great certainty is that they help to heal great pain, bring peace to life, and impress the power of their beauty in our hearts. Once...
