Ask her to follow the exercises in the “Artist's Way” or “The Vein of Gold”. For the last several decades, writer Julia Cameron has been teaching artists how to rediscover and sometimes rescue a lost creative heart. Her books on the creative process encourage artists to take simple steps back to finding their creativity, including writing three pages of long hand each morning and taking walks each day. Other exercises ask artists to identify their favorite movies or write out their life's timeline. All of these exercises eventually give an artist something he can use to kick start the creative process again.
Tell the artist to start a file. In this file, an artist can keep inspirational quotes, interesting pictures, news clippings, postcards of famous paintings and other materials. She can look through the file from time to time to try to turn one of the items in her file into a piece of creative work. For example, a particularly descriptive line from an old book can become the basis for a painting.
Suggest he try a new art medium. Sometimes an artist finds himself in a rut; he's tried everything he knows to try with the medium he normally works with. Often the challenges of working with a new medium will spark new insights and creative projects, because the medium itself offers so much. For example, a photographer who discovers photo editing software might begin to make photographic collages from his old photographs.
Try hypnosis. Hypnosis helps people change old connections in the brain and make new ones. It also relieves stress. These two factors run amok and often get in the way of an artist creating; an effective hypnotherapist can help take down a person's self-imposed blocks.
Recreate a creative ritual. Often an artist has a creative ritual like listening to a certain piece of music or reading through a book of poetry which he does before embarking on a creative project; however, for whatever reason this ritual may have gotten lost. Ask the artist to think on some of his most creative times in the past and determine if such a piece of inspiration was part of the process for him. If so, have him recreate that ritual.
Allow himself some downtime. Burn out is the enemy of people in all walks of life, including artists. If the artist has been working too much lately, the simplest fix for finding his creative inspiration is to stop working for awhile. During these times, creativity often strikes like lightening when he least expects it and the process will begin again anew.