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A New Lease of Life in the Creative Process
As a journalist working in print media, this may sound strange — but one of the things I miss most is browsing through physical magazines. Stacks of them.Flicking through pages.Cutting out images.Pinning references to a wall. There was something immediate about it. Tangible. You could live with an image while you worked. The internet gives… Read more
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Not Cheating. Translating.
It’s been a while. A lot has happened — and yet, very little. Sometimes art has to take second place while life rearranges itself. Mine did. I stopped pushing outward so I could stabilise inward. From the outside, not much changed. Inside, everything did. I asked myself the questions artists avoid:Why so many platforms but… Read more
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Unlocking Creativity… Not Quite
It’s been several months since I last updated this blog. Many things have come and gone, and some have stayed the same, continuing to linger like an annoying thorn stuck in a place you just can’t reach, with no one around to help you pull it out. During my time away from this blog, one… Read more
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#CreativeChangeMakers – A call for Artists to Unite for Global Change under one banner, one hashtag
#CreativeChangeMakers – A call for Artists to Unite for Global Change Today I am setting out to do some “groundbreaking.” Better said I am setting out for you to do something groundbreaking because the purpose of this post is to spark something which we make viral together for a purpose. #CreativeChangeMakers is an initiative calling… Read more
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It ain’t the end of the world just a new era – my thoughts on AI
First of all let me thank everyone who had like my previous blogs and subscribed. It’s always nice to know people are reading and are interested. SO thank you most sincerely. Now for today. “AI is going to take over the world.” Have you heard that one before? Probably, as it’s now become common to… Read more
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Highs and low of feeling mediocre
Firstly, let me start by saying thank you to everyone who is liking the blog posts and subscribing to them. It’s nice to know that you’re being read. As I have mentioned before, I’m not an expert on selling artwork, nor will I be someone to follow on how to become better in your art… Read more
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POD living
Hiya I’m back again, its becoming routine now. Today my focus will be on POD, print on demand and my views on it from my experiences with it, and I am sure some people will not agree, but this is my view I do not expect anyone to feel the same as we all have… Read more
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Opportunities come from what you are doing and not from what you are not doing.
As you will find out this blog won’t always be about my work and what I do, as in the artwork, it is also about the experiences and I hope a way of passing on what little I have learnt for others to also learn about. After all every little helps in our journey, a… Read more
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Nearly three years on…
“It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote in this blog, and since then, many things have happened. The one big thing that has happened is a realization that to break into the art world and get recognized, you need to market yourself, and that is one thing which I find difficult to do.… Read more
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Comfort zone after giving up
Strange how just a few weeks ago I had given up on trying to find a comfort zone with painting. Nothing worked, I struggled with colour and with the paint and brushes. Then suddenly I gave up, and like the previous blog shows I gave up, it was just not for me, once it had… Read more
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