Art
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The silence behind the lens
You know you have a problem when you can no longer see those moments unfolding before you. For some years after I departed the police force, my return to the media saw me pick up a camera and guide my pathway back into the industry. It was a period in which I was labelled a… Read more
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Art and War – Unapologetically Anti-War
Sometimes our civilisation reminds us just how self-centred, greedy, and inhumane we can be. We describe ourselves as civilised, as intelligent beings. Yet common sense tells us, time and again, that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves everyone blind and broken—while others stand behind them, ready to continue the… Read more
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The Innocence of Child and Nature – Art, Meaning & Story
There’s something quietly powerful about the way children experience the world—unfiltered, curious, and completely immersed in the present moment. “Innocence of Child and Nature” began as an attempt to capture that fleeting feeling. In this illustrative collage, a young child sits beneath the sheltering branches of a tree, mesmerized by the graceful dance of butterflies.… Read more
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Women with the Closed Door – The Story Behind It
(Listen while you read: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZZlgcTu9AFLaPRY9qUlwH?si=5d7c825bd0d74ec7) You look around you—check social media, read the latest posts, maybe even watch TV—and all you seem to see are people chasing their fifteen minutes of glory. Many get thousands of hits, even millions, sometimes for the most futile things you could be watching, reading, or listening to. It seems… Read more
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Responsibility of a Creative Towards Sustainability
That’s a heavy title, isn’t it? You’re probably expecting a long lecture about climate change, saving the planet, and all the usual talking points. I’m not going to do that—at least not in the way you might expect. Instead, I’ll start with one simple statement of fact: I am just one person. I cannot change… Read more
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The Extinct Series
The Extinct Series is an ongoing visual archive of species that no longer exist. Each piece presents a lost animal or bird within a stylised, contemporary landscape — often urban, often human — rendered in a restrained risograph-inspired palette. The aesthetic references printed ephemera, field guides, and archival memory, echoing how we now encounter many… Read more
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Between notebook and camera
My return to the creative field after seven years on the police force was always going to be a difficult one. The need for a stable income—something I could step back into quickly while still giving me the space I needed—led me to begin again through freelance photography as my first step. It was a… Read more
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The House
The House is an illustration created using biro on canvas, later coloured with a watercolour wash and sealed. Over the past few weeks my focus has been elsewhere — submitting songs to platforms, upgrading and integrating my websites, handling the admin side of being a creative person in a digital world. Necessary work. Important work.… Read more
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The First Chapter Concludes
This morning, finally, the project came together. After months of waiting — and many hours shaping, formatting, designing, and submitting — the first complete series of my sound/word art is now live across Spotify and all major platforms. Drawing tales with words and using AI-generated music as the delivery vehicle, the aim was simple: to… Read more
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A New Era — a new domain
It’s an exciting moment. The move to stephenignacio.art places the focus, for the first time, exactly where it belongs — on my art, my creative work — not as a side project, not as a business experiment, but as the central thread that connects everything I do. For years I’ve been building across different platforms:my… Read more
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