my popular & very fun Play Dates class is ON SALE NOW for a limited time only! Offer ends 19 Feb The regular price is $685.00, and the sale price MORE »

Today I drew this card again, as I did the other day in the midst of Cyclone Gabrielle. The card is from The Art of Life Inspiration Deck and the MORE »

This is today’s card from The Art of Life Inspiration Deck and the book, The Art of Life: Thriving Through Chaos: Insights and Inspiration to Spark and Sustain Your Creative MORE »

The Hopeful Heart ‘flash’ contemporary art exhibition Another spell of wild and wet weather is forecast…but I’m still hopeful summer will come again! Meanwhile, I’ve decided to hold a ‘flash’ MORE »

“I wanted to create something to remind us to soften and not let the world make us hard.” In this video, I share some of the inspiration, artistic process and MORE »

I thought you may love this unsolicited testimonial from someone I don’t know who had seen a post with a recently finished commission. I’m also sharing this as a reminder MORE »

In this video, I share the creative process behind one of two recent artworks commissioned by a couple as ‘statement pieces’ to adorn the large white walls of their soon-to-be-completed MORE »

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” ~ Ray MORE »

Save your spot! Create Amazing Abstracts with award-winning artist Cassandra Gaisford, February 17, 18 & 19, Outside of Kerikeri in The Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Our slots for an MORE »

“Spark of Fun!” is my first completed artwork for 2023 and echoes my mantra for the year ahead. Spark of Fun began its journey over the period of the Covid feardemic, MORE »

In this video, I’m sharing some memories of times that I’ve shown up for joy despite really bad ‘weather’—physically, emotionally, culturally, economically or something else. That’s what art can do. MORE »

 “Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are.” I’ve had a wee run on my beeswax paintings and encaustic art lately. A lovely lady, well-established in the MORE »

‘I live soberly because I have a chance to do it, I drank in the past because I did not quite know how to do otherwise. Anyway, I don’t care MORE »

Get inspired and make a positive change for yourself—quit or cut back on drinking booze. This may surprise you, but one of the simplest ways to do more of what MORE »

Register and grab your spot today! About this workshop At the end of every year, I create a passion journal to help clarify and manifest my intentions. It’s a fun, MORE »

Fear often gets a bad rap. But as you’ll discover in my yearly review, fear can drive you in a positive new direction. I first began to write my annual MORE »

🔴 WE LOVE IT 1500mm x 1100 mmAcrylic on canvas I’m really excited to be working on a second commission piece for a fun-loving Bay of Islands couple. What a MORE »

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Well my joys, 2023 is shaping up to be a wonderful year full of magic and miracles. The darkness of the past for years is making way for the light MORE »

Artistic inspiration to start the New Year… February 17 to 19, 2023. Art@Rangitane, Kerikeri Come and join Cassandra’s Bay of Islands Art Retreat for 72 hours of pure bliss in MORE »

Recently a gorgeous couple came to visit me in my happy gallery, Art@Rangitane and asked me to “create a landscape from my mind” to grace the walls of their new MORE »

Today’s card from the Art of Life Inspiration Deck. The painting isDANCE WITH LIFE 250 mm x 600mm Encaustic, oil crayon, pastel, mixed media on board. People often ask me, MORE »

In between writing self-empowerment books and love stories (as Mollie Mathews), I love to paint…which explains, in part, why so many of my stories have art-related themes. My new release, MORE »

People often ask me, “How do you commission a painting from an artist? How can you be sure you’re going to get what you want? It must take a lot MORE »

Recently a visitor to my gallery commented, “You are handling the death of your mother so well. I know people who have spent years grieving.” I didn’t burden her with MORE »

How to keep flowering into your true potential when people, situations and things beyond your control knock you about? That’s the challenge, isn’t it? It’s amazing how the simplest of MORE »

Vincent Van Gogh once lamented, “I don’t know if I’m extremely sensitive or life is unbearable.” I feel many of us can relate to this dilemma. There is no doubt MORE »

Leave your worries behind and unleash your inner child! Come and join award-winning artist Cassandra Gaisford’s Bay of Islands Art Retreat for hours of creative play, fun and joy. WHEN MORE »

Hi my joys, I wanted to share my thoughts, experience and tips to help you learn how to be more resilient and have gaslight repellant. Are laughter, love and joy MORE »

A recent commission. ‘Always Summer, acrylic on canvas, 2400 mm x 1200 mm Why Commission A Painting? You have remodelled your home, built new, or just feel like an immediate MORE »