Artistic Voice

One of the re-occurring themes that I noticed at the Synergy2 conference was that of artistic voice. Trying to figure out what that is and how it works for me has been an on-going challenge. I don't feel that I have anything momentous to say with my art. Because of that I kind of abandoned trying to identify my voice. What I want to do is make pretty things, but that in itself can be a statement.
Now, I don't think that it was any coordinated or planned thing that artistic voice kept coming up at Synergy2. In fact it may well be that I simply noticed it because I was ready to hear it and begin to process. Having voice brought up over and over again with different little spins on it throughout the conference really got me thinking again. I have come to some conclusions.

1. You don't have to have something momentous to say in order to have a defined artistic voice.
2. It is not something that you necessarily consciously work on.
3. As one of the presenters said (sorry I don't remember who), sometimes you just have to collect your work from a span of time and look at it anew to even begin to see what makes it unified and yours.
4. I should relax about the whole voice thing and not try to push it. As long as I am true to myself it will be there.

I did a quick search and found a few links to posts or articles that were about finding your artistic voice. I don't want to step on anybody's toes, so instead of quoting sections (some would be large sections) of these, I am simply going to give you the urls for them.

From "Pottery Production Practices", an article by Laurie Erdman on how her artistic voice developed. http://www.ceramicindustry.com/Articles/PPP_Archives/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000767224

From "develop on fridays" a post by Jefra Starr Linn on your creative voice.
http://www.jefrastarrlinn.com/develop/voice/

From "Entrepreneur The Arts" an article by Jim Hart entitled "10 Steps to Finding your Artistic Voice".
http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/08/26/ten-steps-to-finding-your-artistic-voice/