In the 1970s I went travelling to the USA and ended up living in Oregon. I had gotten a job planting trees out on the steep sloping graveyards where logging had decimated majestic conifer forests and the logging companies were obliged to replant. There I met an artist and poet called Paula Treacy. (She is now known as Simone Treacy- Croft. How she got the name Simone is another story). When we called it quits on the tree planting we moved in together into a house by the freeway in the counterculture capital of the world - Eugene, Oregon. We drank a lot of thick black coffee and spent our days documenting our lives, our hopes and dreams, our joy and pain, in artist diaries. This is when I learned to write with pictures.(Click on pics for close up).
(c) Jan Cornall 1975
Have you ever wanted to bust free from just writing: to write in pictures or paint with words, create a narrative with photographs or filmed images?
In March 2015 we were in Siem Reap, Cambodia for Temple Dreaming in Angkor Wat.
It was a trip designed for creative artists of all modalities: painters, poets, photographers, filmsters, performers, writers, doodlers, journalers, et al. An invitation to journey into the heart and spirit of your creativity and explore the ancient temples of Angkor Wat and its surrounds for the purpose making a creative work — collection of poems, sketches, paintings, a creative journal, a short story, notes for a novel, exhibition of photos, short film.
Seven days of workshops and temple excursions with a showing/presentation of your work on our final evening. A highlight was our workshop The Art of Visual Story Telling with guest tutor, illustrator/comic artist Louie Joyce. Check out his work and vids here.
Sign up for our Writers Journey Mailing List to find out about the next Creative Journey.
(c) Jan Cornall 1975
Have you ever wanted to bust free from just writing: to write in pictures or paint with words, create a narrative with photographs or filmed images?
In March 2015 we were in Siem Reap, Cambodia for Temple Dreaming in Angkor Wat.
It was a trip designed for creative artists of all modalities: painters, poets, photographers, filmsters, performers, writers, doodlers, journalers, et al. An invitation to journey into the heart and spirit of your creativity and explore the ancient temples of Angkor Wat and its surrounds for the purpose making a creative work — collection of poems, sketches, paintings, a creative journal, a short story, notes for a novel, exhibition of photos, short film.
Seven days of workshops and temple excursions with a showing/presentation of your work on our final evening. A highlight was our workshop The Art of Visual Story Telling with guest tutor, illustrator/comic artist Louie Joyce. Check out his work and vids here.
Sign up for our Writers Journey Mailing List to find out about the next Creative Journey.
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