Sustaining and growing subject passion: What can be learnt from the artist teacher?

We began teaching our subjects to pass on our knowledge and passion, but with our busy daily working and personal lives we sometimes forget to ‘feed’ the very fire that began all those years ago. When the pedagogy and syllabus knowledge begin to embed, how might we revisit our passion for the subject we studied for so many years? Upon reading Szekely (1978), it became clear that the role of the ‘artist teacher’ is an important one to study. My story begins several years ago and I remember the moment clearly. It was the Glastonbury Festival weekend in 2014 and I was enjoying the creative spectacle. I was contemplating the art that I wished I had more time to create, so I simply decided to get a new sketchbook and try to complete a drawing every day for the next week. I have always created whilst I have taught, but haphazardly. Ball (1990) supports my thought that my teaching was supported by my understanding of what it is to create, including the joys and pains of making.