Finding Wholeness Through Art Making:

Announcing Finding Wholeness in Art Making: A Search for Authentic Living In Finding Wholeness in Art Making, Nadine Boughton explores the relationship between artmaking and the search for wholeness. Drawing from her own experience as an artist, teacher, and seeker, she considers creative practice not simply as self-expression or aesthetic production, but as a way of living more authentically. At the heart of the book is the conviction that artmaking can serve as both a spiritual and psychological practice. Guided by symbolic images such as the Circle, the Still Point, the Child, and the Artist, and informed by thinkers including Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Boughton follows the movement toward integration through image, memory, imagination, and inner work. The manuscript reflects on childhood intuition, the pressure to conform, the healing possibilities of making, and the imagination as a source of knowledge. It proposes that art can help preserve the vitality of the child within while opening the maker to community, nature, and a larger sense of belonging. The book has been carefully shaped by its curator as the first biography of the author. Finding Wholeness in Art Making does more than describe a journey toward integration: through its structure, images, and unfolding of a life in art, the book enacts that journey on the page. Warm, reflective, and deeply personal, with 5 epilogues showing Nadine’s manuscript to be the foundation for her art making until her death in 2024, Finding Wholeness in Art Making speaks to artists, therapists, educators, and thoughtful readers who understand creativity as one way we become more fully human.