Nurturing The Song Within: Art Journal

by Roderick MacIver

Nurturing The Song Within offers perspectives on creating work of beauty, and a life of beauty. It explores the inner work out of which creative work and a unique human life evolve. Through hundreds of interviews conducted over the last thirty years, the author searches for answers in the lives of artists, adventurers, activists, and people who devote their lives to serving others. He explores the murky waters of deep imagination, the friendship with one’s inner world, and how those inspire creativity. A human life is an expression of ideas, of dreams, of courage and of discipline. A life fully lived, a unique life, grows out of something deep – the essence of a human being. It evolves out of that which is sacred inside each of us. Its exact source is difficult to explain; it can however be sensed and understood. The author speaks from experience – he has been a fulltime working artist for thirty years. Over ninety of the author’s full color paintings accompany the reflections and interview excerpts.

190 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

Roderick MacIver published the periodical Heron Dance for twenty-five years, has been a full-time working artist for thirty years and has authored fourteen books on the creative process, the beauty and mystery of wild nature and of life, and books about the human search for meaning. His art has been featured in several books by others and is in a number of public and private collections.

Reviews

[Tina Hooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend Nurturing the Song within Art Journey (hard cover) as well as the companion Diary/Planner. I personally appreciated the composition of beautiful artwork in conjunction with self exploration through journaling. Nurturing the Song within does just that by prompting the reader through a series of thought provoking questions. Rod MacIver masterfully created a unique concept of blending museum quality artwork, inspirational quotes and insight on life.