Journeyartfully: Secrets for Living an Artful Life

This thought-provoking and life-shifting book by artist and teacher, Pattie Ann Hale, is an invitation to live artfully. The artful life is a deeply spiritual life which brings those who will embark upon it into a deeper understanding of creation, God's heart, community, and themselves. This book will open one to new doors of creativity, love, soulfulness and spiritual encounter through the sacredness of everyday living, seeing divine nature in the entirety of life. Is there something more to life? Does the aching of it call out to you every time you quiet yourself enough to hear the calling? Every moment from this moment on beckons you to reach into your truest nature and be the creative one you are even now designed to be - the one you are right now - today - in this moment. We are all artists made in the image of God. We all have the ability to live artfully. It is a life that brings the 'something more.' It is a life that requires you to take risks - risks to love, lead, dream, break boundaries, be outrageously yourself and forget the old ways that do not serve you anymore. You must trust your intuition. You must trust that you know the voice of God. You must trust the you who longs for the something more. Life awaits you. One never knows how beautiful the dance will be until the music begins. Listen for it.

Pattie Ann Hale is a leader in the contemporary exploration of arts and faith. Besides her daily work as a professional visual artist, she also regularly speaks and teaches at events and artist gatherings and paints live during worship events. The continual sharing of her creative life and wisdom gained by that experience through online platforms such as her Journeyartfully writings, video blog, artistic life-coaching programs, and online classes has given her opportunity to speak into the lives of many experienced and up-and-coming artists interested in exploring their faith through the avenue of the arts. She leads seminars and hands-on workshops concerning the spiritual in the arts throughout the country and abroad. In her workshops, which often focus on wholeness and healing, she guides participants in experiencing a spiritual visual language. Pattie Ann Hale is the author of Sacred Revolution - The Power of God in the Arts and co-author of Unlocking the Heart of the Artist Experience Guide with Matt Tommey. She is the Associate Director of The Worship Studio (www.theworshipstudio.org), an international ministry focused on the arts and faith. She is the former director of the MorningStar Art Gallery of MorningStar Ministries and Publications (Charlotte, NC) where she was on staff as a layout artist and was an integral part of the MorningStar Worship Art Team from 2007 - 2009. Pattie is the former director of The Appalachian Arts Center, which is a retail gallery and educational and community art center that focuses on local artists and the arts of the Appalachian Mountains. Pattie Ann Hale, a native of the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia, works daily in her professional studio and gallery in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC. She is a visual artist, writer, and teacher who focuses on the connection to the sacred through art. Her spiritual expression is primarily carried out through oils and acrylics on canvas. As she creates intuitively through a process of movement, prayer and play, her art mysteriously unfolds from a place of journeying in the spirit and the visual story comes into surprising existence. The resulting paintings are expressive offerings of metaphorical images, abstraction, and a reflection of movement. Her layers of color and perspective create depth and dimension which invites one to see beyond the natural and into the place of the spirit. Her art is inspirational, contemplative and provoking.