I’m curious. How is your creative life? 2020 has been a polarising time, hasn’t it? Some have thrived while others have slumped. Perhaps you’ve done both. As someone who pays the bills by being creative every day, this year has presented me with some intense challenges. So I’ve been hitting them head-on to learn as … Read more
I’m not ashamed to admit this, but I’m a bit of a Bear Grylls fanboy. That’s not to say I’d fancy camping out with him in the middle of nowhere, cooking snails and drinking my own pee. I’d rather just watch others doing that on the TV, thank you very much. However, one of the … Read more
I have been a fan of Hull City football club since my dad took me to my first game in 1984. Since then, hundreds of times, I’ve sat in the hallowed stands of Boothferry Park, and subsequently the KCom Stadium, to support my team; and over the years I’ve grown to understand a lot about … Read more
This really upset me: it was the opening sentence from a post by a celebrated leadership teacher-trainer, and his advice on how to best work with creative people. The frame he offered his thoughts within was that creative people USUALLY have big egos AND major insecurities. Wow! Aghast isn’t too strong a word to how I felt reading that. I … Read more
What making art is really all about. There’s a bigger concept to grasp than just wanting to master a particular technique, a more pertinent question to be answered than ‘will anyone like this?’, and our creations take place within a much larger story than we realise is unfolding at the time. You see, art – … Read more
An excerpt from my book The Creative Wound: Heal Your Broken Art (p13, Why Make Art?) Art exists to remind us that we are alive. It reminds us that we are human, that we each have a soul. An artist creates magic from the mundane and leads us by the hand into another world, or more deeply … Read more