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| Id | 971 | |
| Author | Reynolds F. | |
| Title | Colour and communion: Exploring the influences of visual art-making as a leisure activity on older womens subjective well-being | |
| Reference | Reynolds F.; Colour and communion: Exploring the influences of visual art-making as a leisure activity on older womens subjective well-being ;Journal of Aging Studies vol:24 issue: 2.0 page:135.0 |
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| Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77949273932&doi=10.1016%2fj.jaging.2008.10.004&partnerID=40&md5=302c98cadc16d6d40d99f5a3f5688d2d |
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| Abstract | Research into the subjective experience of art-making for older people is limited, and has focused mostly on professional artists rather than amateurs. This study examined older womens motives for visual art-making. Thirty-two participants aged 60-86 years old were interviewed. Twelve lived with chronic illness; twenty reported good health. Nearly all had taken up art after retirement; two had since become professional artists. Participants described their art-making as enriching their mental life, promoting enjoyment of the sensuality of colour and texture, presenting new challenges, playful experimentation, and fresh ambitions. Art also afforded participants valued connections with the world outside the home and immediate family. It encouraged attention to the aesthetics of the physical environment, preserved equal status relationships, and created opportunities for validation. Art-making protected the womens identities, helping them to resist the stereotypes and exclusions which are commonly encountered in later life. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
Colour and communion: Exploring the influences of visual art-making as a leisure activity on older womens subjective well-being. Whilst there is increasing theorising about the broad role of active leisure activities in maintaining a positive identity and well-being in later life the meanings that older people attribute to specic leisure experiences such as creative activities have been little explored. Relevant studies have tended to recruit profes- sional or semi-professional artists rather than amateurs. This study provided new insights as it found that the benets uncovered by Fisher and Specht are not conned to older artists with high levels of expertise and lengthy commitment to art-making. The participants in the current study differed in that very few described a long personal history of involvement in arts and crafts and perhaps for this reason their accounts focused more upon the contribution of art to their current psychological vitality and future personal development rather than its potential for integrating past and present selves.
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