PHOTO: Local creatives are urging others to immerse themselves in creative pursuits in order to grow spiritually and artistically.
For Tina, it started when she learned French.
For Clementine, it happened in high school.
For Delma, her creative inspiration did not happen until she reached her 40s, and she had a kind of mystical experience.
“I had a spiritual event take place in my life. I saw things in so much more color. Well, I saw the trees and flowers kind of like rubbing into life and colour. I don’t know if it was a vision of heaven or what it was, but I became an artist after that,” Delma Smythe told the Western Plains App.
“It was in the 1990s. I was in my 40s. I hadn’t done art prior to this”…

