Creativity. For some it’s a natural extension of their persona, when all it takes for art to happen is the simplest flick of a paintbrush, pencil, shutter or mouse. For others it can be something of an enigma, something they at times hold in their hands only to watch it slip through their fingers like grains of sand. The road is never perfectly smooth for the artist's journey, and yet often we create our own roadblocks and sabotage our route without even realising it.

Creative ideas are the lifeblood of the creative artist, the starting point for all new projects. No ideas = no creativity. What happens most of the time though is not that we have a lack of ideas. Your creative mind is whirring away constantly, you can't switch it off. When you don't capture your ideas;...