Best thing I did to finally start painting again was to read a book called 'The Artists Way' by Julia Cameron.

Keep a scrapbook! I stick anything in this - coasters from bars, magazine articles/pictures, newspaper cartoons, paint charts, my own sketches, postcards, inspirational reminder notes, ideas and notes from my mum, wrapping paper etc etc. I look back on these scrapbooks often.Keep an A5 sketchbook so it is easy to carry around.

Promise to pick it up even if only to doodle for one minute a day most of my paintings come from doodles, sketches and notes I've written in a pile of these books' it keeps the guilt away when you haven't treated yourself all day to a bit of a sketch.