The Artist

Creative Archetype

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Who Is The Artist Archetype?
The artist is a vivacious and passionate creator. They will draw metaphorical meaning from everywhere, including the depths of their own souls and express it in tangible form. This archetype is not solely identified through one medium or discipline, it is through their emotive expression that they are identified as the artist.

Many with this archetype will gravitate towards more tactile mediums and disciplines such as painting and drawing but due to the energy and passion they pour into the work and how it moves the viewer, the artist may experiment across any and all mediums and could be working in sculpture, dance, writing and anything in between.
Above all, this archetype wants to be seen. They place high importance on being valued and validated by others rather than generating their own self-assurance and belief. As such, they can be easily crushed by negative feedback because they take it as a personal rejection of themselves. Their work is an extension of them and they struggle to separate themselves from it which can make sharing their work with the wider world all the more painful.

The artist is magnetic and lights up the room when they enter. They have an intensity that is as alluring as it is compelling. When channelled into their work positively, this intensity is irresistible to their audience and they’ll develop a strong fanbase with ease. However, when it is not channelled positively or is held in the artist’s body themselves, the artist can find themselves spiralling into negative thought patterns. They can become disillusioned with the world and perpetuate the starving artist mentality through their own self-sabotage as they become enamoured with their own bleeding heart.

As an archetype, they have the ability to speak beyond words, time and space. Their impact can last beyond their own lives and their work has a timeless quality to it that can connect people, communities and generations. The artist is the great leveller of the world and can speak to all human pain, allowing people to feel seen, heard and understood in an extraordinary way that goes beyond human comprehension.

Supporting The Artist Archetype

The artist can become very obsessive and protective of their woundedness, wearing it like a badge of honour. In learning to heal the pain within themselves, the artist can find new ways to express their trauma through the resulting learning and growth they experience. This can help them break out of the detrimental suffering artist cycle and enter a high realm of creative possibilities.

Learning to trust their own inner authority is crucial to the artist who otherwise can become stuck in cyclical ‘safe’ patterns of creation or become paralysed altogether. Finding the value in what they have to share and express for themselves and learning to love themselves and the process just as much as the end result will be beneficial for the artist and give them more confidence in sharing their work.

Actions To Support The Artist Archetype

Take a step back from your work after creating it before you share it with the world. This time and space ensures you share it from a place of wisdom and not active wounding
Experiment with new mediums and skills in order to find new ways to express yourself – don’t be afraid to be a beginner at something in order to gain fresh insight
Use journaling as a way of exploring your subconscious to help you process, this will give you new perspectives and activate more possibilities and potential within your work

Artist Examples

  • Francis Bacon
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Amy Winehouse
  • Vincent Van Gogh
  • Sylvia Plath

Understand and Support Your Creative Archetype

If you want to find out more about supporting your creative work with this archetype, you can purchase the Meet Your Creative Archetypes book where we deep dive into what really makes your creative archetype tick. Find out how to unleash your true creative power and embrace your archetype’s natural genius.

You’ll learn how to break free from the shadow of the archetype that may have controlled the way your creativity manifests in the world and how to transform and transmute it to awaken a new level of flow for yourself.

You’ll find actionable tips to help you move towards your potential and unlock a magnetic version of yourself that will ignite your passions and help you achieve the creative success that you desire.

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