Creativity as a Way of Life:  A Nature Artist’s Journal

Heron Dance, through its publication (The Heron Dance Creativity Journal) and the books it publishes, explores the creative process, and the joys and struggles of living the creative life. Through nature art, we celebrate the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Heron Dance also publishes calendars, note cards and offers original paintings.

The Creativity Journal explores the processes of artists, creators and innovators. It offers perspectives on their relationship with their inner world, with the beauty and mystery of the natural world, with discipline, frustration, persistence, truth. It contains interviews, excerpts from autobiographies and biographies, poetry and song lyrics by and about rtists, novelists, musicians and poets. It also contains

Heron Dance founder Roderick MacIver’s journal notes delving into his own creative processes. Each quarterly issue contains dozens of Rod’s paintings in full color. A subscription includes two stand alone books and two are nature art special issues. (Click here to subscribe).

Issue 58 was a softcover book (which is sold as a book in bookstores and on Amazon) entitled Art is About the Mystery (Maybe That's Why Artists Can be a Little Odd) (Click here to read more about this book )

Also, each week, Heron Dance sends out a free e-newsletter, A Pause for Beauty, to over 25,000 people containing a new painting and a short essay or a perspective on art and creativity. ( Click here to receive this free weekly e-newsletter).