Serving Up Creative Soup
By Susan Talpey, Shore Publishing, September 2008

 

A delicious and imaginative concoction, Creative Soup is a website cooked up by shoreline artists and bubbling over with original ideas and musings. Branford graphic designer Jen Payne set up the Creative Soup collaboration two years ago to encourage inspired souls, including herself, to take thoughtful time out.

 

“I always loved writing, but like many busy people, as I grew older my business took precedence and I had little time to pursue that passion,” she says. “Two years ago I had a life changing moment and realized it was most important that I take time out for my artwork and my writing.”

 

At a dinner gathering of shoreline writers, photographers, and artists, Payne came up with the idea for a website dedicated to the pursuit of creativity. Read more...

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Soup's On: A Branford-based Web site encourages creativity and connecting
By Donna Doherty, New Haven Register, July 2008

 

Any good soup is a melange of fine ingredients, whose tastes complement each other and bring out the best in each other. Creativesoup.org, an online collaborative gathering place for area writers, artists, photographers and other creative types, lives up to the good soup requirements, offering what it calls "a concoction of ideas, art and musings" to its visitors and a unique place for its contributors to showcase their talents.

 

Founded in 2006 by Branford graphic designer Jen Payne, who serves as editor, the impetus came from networking artists who were always talking about doing work that just didn't get the exposure they felt it warranted. Read more...