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Kiwi ‘She Sheds’, Back Rooms and
The Kitchen Table
by Marilyn Jessen
ISBN: 978-1-86953-944-
RRP $39.
F
ollowing a successful career in business
management, Marilyn decided on a change in
direction. She completed a Media Arts degree, and
became a specialist teacher in music, photography and
film-making. Marilyn has now harnessed her creative
skills to both write and photograph ‘Her Space’.
‘I have had the privilege of stepping into the spaces
of over 60 artistic, creative and inspirational women,
who are living and loving life by following their
passion. They are some of the busiest women I
have met, and yet they manage to carve out time
to do what undoubtedly comes from the heart,’
Marilyn says.
‘We know them as daughters, partners, wives
and mothers, and as carers and career women
who juggle busy lifestyles and multiple roles, while
satisfying their deepest desire to create. Our lives are
enriched by their work.’
The women featured in ‘Her Space’ are at varying
stages of their creative journeys. Some are at the
beginning, working at a day job and creating in their
precious spare time. Some have taken the leap of faith
and given away the security of a steady income to do
what they love, hoping and believing that the money will
follow. And there are a few who have been at it for long
enough to know that it is financially sustainable, even if
things do get a little scary along the way.
They are ordinary women made extraordinary by
doing what many of us silently yearn to do: follow our
passion. All have faced challenges — physical, financial
and emotional — but they do it anyway.
Each woman’s space is truly unique, ranging from
small to large, basic to lavish, and from kitchen tables to
back rooms, to garages and ‘she sheds’ tucked down the
garden path.
Also featured in ‘Her Space’ are ‘food for thought’
pages including ‘Getting Started Creatively’, ‘Staying
Passionate about Being Creative’, and ‘Creating Your Very
Own Her Space’, each providing tips and strategies to
assist readers on their creative journeys.
Turning a creative passion into a full-time job is a
serious step. Marilyn includes a ‘Marketing and Money’
section to assist creatives in navigating the business side
of their creative enterprise.
Marilyn says: ‘I hope readers will find, within
the pages of ‘Her Space’, someone to identify with,
something new to try, or someone to be inspired by, and
above all that readers get excited about creating their
own unique, inspirational, and productive ‘Her Space’.
New Zealand women are extraordinarily creative. They
knit, they weave, they write and they build. They are
jewellers and milliners, painters and sculptors, crafters
and collectors. Marilyn Jessen spent a year interviewing
over 60 inspirational women, from Hokianga in the north
to the Catlins in the south, to bring us ‘Her Space’.‘HER SPACE’
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