“Creative expression is infused in every day I breathe and everything I do. We create our lives and our realities just as we put a paintbrush to canvas or pen to paper.”
Today’s Awakened Creator Spotlight is on Liz, an artist whose creations channel a surreal and divine expression of life through colorful collage and paint.
Connect with her on Instagram (@lizsanders_creates) or her online shop.
Here is Liz in her own words on the creative journey and what it means to be an Awakened Creator.
Tell us about your authentic creative expression. What do you love to create and why?
Visual expression has always been the spark at the core of my being. Marks, colors, creating with my hands fuels me with joy and cultivates deep connection.
Right now, my visual art practice’s focus is collage and painting. The main series I’ve been working on is my “Collage Doodle” series. This series started as a way out of my creative block and into creative play. The colorful abstract compositions with some surrealism are windows into my subconscious. It’s been through many remixes starting with 5″x7″ collage compositions into a projection art installation and now into paint translations of the original collages. You can see in [the bottom half of the image below] the “Stairs to Starry Sight” painting of the “Stairs to Starry Sight” collage.
I’ve also been working on a new series of abstract collages seen in [the next solo image] “Rainbow No. 1.”
Early on in my creative journey, if I was asked about my creative expression I would have only talked about the visual artist part of me. When in reality, my creative expression expands so far beyond that facet of myself.
Creative expression is infused in every day I breathe and everything I do. From cooking to dancing to holding myself in the hard moments and through riding the waves of life.
I learned how vital my artistic expression is to my life force through years stuck in a creative block. I love to create because my soul needs it and craves it. I create because it’s my birthright as a Divine soul. I create because I am made as a reflection of the Great Creator. (Just as you are too!)
What most often gets in your way as a creator and how do you stay in alignment and flow?
I spent many years disconnected from my artistic practice and I still get blocks to this day (like literally this week!). All sorts of things come up with blocks — fears, emotions, wounded parts, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, limiting beliefs — stuck energies.
What helps me stay in alignment and flow is by first remembering that moments of clunkiness and feeling stuck are an inevitable part of the creative process. And in fact are what make the process so satisfying upon completion. And that through this challenge I will be transformed anew!
I acknowledge it and send it love and compassion.
Then, I have a whole list of rituals that I offer up to that wounded blocked part – sometimes she just needs to be seen and heard and other times she just needs to dance it out or write down all her thoughts or infuse the practice with play. What I seek to do is engage with the feeling, get to know it better and create space for flow.
Additionally, I have routine practices that help me stay in flow like breathwork, meditation, body movement and sunlight.
To sum it up simply: lots of compassion, being in conversation with what all parts of me need and self care.
If you could offer words of wisdom or support to your fellow creators, what would you say?
Keep showing up!
Not for the likes or the validation or whatever your ego may want, but for the inner child in you. For the deep desire of your soul to create. For the sheer joy of the process. Because it’s your birthright. Because it’s your power. Because it’s your freedom. And when you live in your fullest expression, you give permission to everyone else to lean into their authentic expression too.
What does being an Awakened Creator mean to you?
Being an Awakened Creator means that you are awakened to the greatest power within you – your creativity.
That we are each our own Divine beings with souls meant to create.
This practice is one of deep spiritual communion. Connecting the seen and unseen worlds. Converting figments of thoughts, ideas, and energy into something tangible.
We are all receivers of creative energy — ready to be awakened and cleared so that we can channel Divine expression.
It’s not just a practice of “art” but also a practice of “life.” We create our lives and our realities just as we put a paintbrush to canvas or pen to paper.
Your creativity is infinite and it seeps into every aspect of living.
Want to connect with Liz?
Check out Liz’s divine creations on:
Instagram: @lizsanders_creates
Her Online Shop: Liz Sanders Studios
Do you have the desire to align with your authentic creative expression?
If you want to feel free to create from the heart, my HeART Alignment Creative Ritual guide will show you a pathway home.
I will personally guide you (with quick video lessons) through a simple yet powerful creative ritual that will bring your heART back online so you can start creating from that space again.
