Enhance Your Virtual Background for Confident Video Calls

This video explains why I started creating and making items to help virtual working professionals stage their on-camera backgrounds to emanate meaning about how they work with people, on projects, and in programmes, so they can confidently always feel proud to switch their cameras on.

Transforming Leadership Through Art: Join My Journey

Welcome to 2025.

I continue logging my now developed practice and process of sharpening my artistic talents. The first half of the year will see less written content from me. Instead I shall be creating more videos and providing links of what I have uploaded from my you tube channel.

I also integrate more of my insights from my executive team coaching course that I did as I found I can use my practice as an artist and maker to help senior executive teams and virtual teams become more effective. Look out for the calls for participants to the inaugural art led executive team coaching programs, that I will personally offer and deliver early to mid 2025.

So for this week, enjoy this video of me taking down my Christmas decorations from my own home office backdrop. It might perhaps be symbolic of marking the end of an era as this year I integrate more of my talents into on sophisticated offering to the world.

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The Healing Power of Art in Your Workspace

Visiting my local hospital I found it enjoyable to pause and explore the art.

Charring Cross Hospital uses art well. The images below are what captured my thoughts this week when I visited the hospital for a check up.

Not only was I mesmerised by the colours, the vibrancy of the paintings, I noticed how easy it was for me to feel calmed and be part of a community of gallery viewers enjoying the art at my local hospital. You saw it, it made you contemplate when when you walk through their corridors or approached the lifts.

David Wiseman’s huge artwork on the first floor of Charring Cross hospital
Lovely small artworks on display at Charring Cross hospital in the main entrance
The wide array of artwork at the entrance of the hospital in Fulham

I never noticed the art before, it was a stressful moment for me but the art helped me to feel calmer. But it is a lesson to us all about the role that art could play in our own workspace.

Art is known to uplift, bring joy, elevate, bring hope or help our racing thoughts pause from its meditative transfixing properties.

So don’t forget to include art purchases if you are renovating your own home office and wanting to style your shelves.

Let me know in the comments, how many pieces of art do you have in your home office? How many on your shelves? How much art is on your wall to create an aesthetic virtual meeting backdrop?

If you want to see the art I created small enough to display on shelves, click on this link to browse the art that I sell on Etsy.