In 'So Where's My Happy Ever After?', Joy describes going to an art therapy workshop on Molokai, Hawaii. At that workshop she was taught to turn up to a blank piece of paper and allow whatever was there to emerge.
In a similar process, Michelangelo said that his famous sculpture "David" was always there in the marble, and his task as an artist was simply to chip away at the extraneous material revealing the form that was already contained within the marble.
In her experience with using art as a revelatory process, Joy experienced the power of being fully present, keeping the paint brush moving, while all the time allowing her deepest feelings and locked-up creativity to speak through her brushstrokes without censoring them. In a later chapter of her book she also describes an experience that happened some weeks after the workshop finished, when the painting she was working on revealed truths that frightened her. However, once she was able to set aside her fear and judgement, the painting revealed itself to be Pele, the Hawaiian Goddess of the Volcano. It was also a painting that revealed to Joy that her own sexuality, creativity and emotions were to be respected and honoured, not buried and denied.
Whatever depths or heights you wish to explore, the Happy Ever After Club Paint Toy  is yours to enjoy. Experiment, play, make pictures for your friends, express how you're feeling right now or go deep within yourself to find a long-buried truth - it's all waiting for you. En-Joy!
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Paint me a Story
See the screen
Like a mirror
Reflecting back
Outer and Inner
What secrets can we share?
Empty your mind
Blank as the screen
See a colour - blue, red, green
Dab it here
Paint it there
Tell a story
Life laid bare.
Something's emerging
Look, here it comes!
Oh what bliss
Oh what fun
Free to explore
Free to dream
See it now
Look, it's me!
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