Challenge Accepted! The making of ‘Turning Tides’.
For her 50th birthday, Kate asked her friends for ideas on what challenge she could take up for her 50th year. A friend challenged her to create 50 illustrated appreciations – based on something she had learnt to appreciate each week. Always one to take up a challenge, Kate set out to appreciate the little, and the big things in life and turn them into artwork… this is the result – 52 original pieces of art, that she then turned into a book.
All (52) Kate’s original “Appreciations” are available framed for £300 each. Please email kate@katetulettart.com for more information or to view the originals.
52 Weeks of Appreciations
Week 1 – “Appreciate yourself, who you are and what you feel deep within your soul”.
Week 3 – “Even the rats and rascals in my life can bring me joy!”
Week 4 – “Appreciate the power of the waves in a storm”.
Week 6 – “Appreciate your freedom because you can!”
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Week 9 – “Appreciating the advice given by people that love you! “
Week 10- “Learn to appreciate , when all gets a little too much you need to take a break!”
Week 13. “Appreciating the need to Bee Kind!”
Week 14. “Appreciating the freedom that comes from inner strength”
Week 20: “Appreciating Cricket “Never give up, just absolutely never give up.”
Week 25 : “Appreciating that a horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care!”
Week 27 : “Appreciating the serenity you get from walking the dogs in the woods!”
Week 28 : “Appreciating having the time to be creative!”
Week 29 : “I am learning to Appreciate that some things fill your heart without trying”
Week 30 : “Always appreciate the gift of life. Be happy and have fun”
Week 32 : “I appreciate that everyday is a new beginning”
Week 36: “Turning Tides – Finding new ways to use excess energy”
Week 37: “They whispered to her ‘you will never withstand the storm’… ‘I am the storm’, she whispered back.”
Week 38 : “Headspace” – Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!
Week 40: “Mind over matter” – Enjoy your life, no matter what is happening inside the mind.
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Week 41 Appreciation- “Emma” – I’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my sea
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Week 42: “inner beauty” – You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are now and change the ending!
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Week 43: ”The Shard” – Friendship must be built on a solid foundation of Alcohol, sarcasm, inappropriateness and shenanigans!
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Week 44: “Ariella” – Just believe in yourself, even if you don’t, pretend that you do and at some point you will.
Week 45: You decide – “One day? Or, day one? You decide!”
Week 46: Majestic – “It’s all about finding calm in the chaos.”
Week 47: Discipline “The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.”
Week 51: Unworthy – “One of the hardest battles we fight is between what we know and what we feel.”
Week 52: The Gift – “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” William Shakespeare
Challenge Completed!
On completion of her challenge, Kate has turned her individual appreciations works into a book and an exhibition of originals, entitled “Turning Tides”, held on 21st June to coincide with the Surrey Artists Open Studio week. The exhibition was held over the ‘summer solstice’, celebrating a moment in time, a sign of new beginnings, the mark of spiritual survival.
Kate’s appreciations are all about finding that moment every day or week to appreciate “a little life, but a powerful and brave one”.
As a spin off of the appreciations project, Kate has created a course – Developing your creativity through gratitude. Classes are held the first Thursday of every month in January.
Kate Tulett Art 