Robyn Beeston

The storytelling artist.

Inspiration for the 100-day Project and print collection - artist’s note:

In 2018 I was working at a university. Part of my role was to help build self-awareness and emotional intelligence in students, but, first, I had to be coached myself. From an incredible, computer generated report, I learned that my top five talents are Learner, Ideation, Input, Achiever and Connectedness.

But, what did that mean?

I had to learn/own what each talent meant to me and how best to use them. My coach explained each talent is a bucket. When our buckets are full we are in flow. That’s where magic happens.

With help I realised my Learner (#1) bucket was overflowing, but my Achiever (#4) was empty. Oh. I needed to feel worthy of being able to achieve something without always choosing to learn. So, in 2019, with encouragement from my daughter, my 100-day Project was born. The challenge – share a painting a day for 100 days. In the first 100-day challenge I sold 72. I was amazed, and each time I shared or sold my Achiever bucket and belief in myself grew. The goal was to show up for myself.

It has been so rewarding.

After the third 100-day Project I began creating reproductions of some of my work. I was being asked to paint some again and so I chose to create fine art quality copies of my favourite prints to make them more accessible to people who resonated with the range.