Art
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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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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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