Born Creative: A Memoir of Paint, Passion & Purpose

Nita Leland's memoir, Born Creative, is meaningful to anyone who yearns to be more creative while coping with a topsy-turvy family life.

Born Creative begins with a bright-eyed, hopeful child's longing to be an artist. When Nita's well-meaning parents insist that she focus on teaching English, her desire to be an artist fades away.

Will she ever recover her passion to paint?

Nita marries her high school sweetheart and they move four thousand miles from Ohio to Issoudun, a village near Chateauroux Air Force base in France. Nita experiences extreme culture shock, as she struggles to overcome isolation and improve her pathetic domestic skills. Explorations in Bob's sports car open her eyes to the beautiful French countryside.

After returning to Ohio, Bob finishes law school while Nita adopts the 1960s lifestyle of the feminine mystique. She is a frazzled, stay-at-home mother of four kids-cooking, ironing and driving carpools-sleepwalking in suburbia.

Thinking she needs a hobby, her husband surprises her with an unexpected gift-a little black paint box filled with watercolor paints. In Born Creative, discover how art triumphs over housekeeping The message is unmistakable.

If you dare to dream, release the creative spirit you were born with and let it soar.

About the Author
Leland, Nita: - Nita Leland, author of Born Creative: A Memoir of Paint, Passion & Purpose, encourages everyone to nurture their creativity. Her memoir is especially meaningful to those who dream of exploring their potential but have been brainwashed to believe they lack talent. Art had no place in Nita's adult life until 1970, when her husband surprised her with a gift of watercolor paints. After taking a class, she developed a passion to paint. She flouted the social restraints of the 1970s and became an artist while raising four exuberant kids. Nita is the author of best-selling art-instruction books and videos on color, collage, and creativity, published by North Light Books. The true stories in her memoir reflect her artistic growth and her genuine delight at motivating people to believe in their creative potential. She has traveled throughout the United States and Canada as a workshop instructor, juror of art exhibitions, and demonstrator at art materials trade shows, intermixed with teaching weekly watercolor classes in her hometown. Nita Leland lives in Dayton, Ohio with her husband Robert G. Leland.