Gibraltar
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No right to speak but saying it nonetheless
Today I am moving away from speaking about my work and taking this chance to put forward my personal opinion. This comes after I was asked this week how I saw art in Gibraltar and what was good in it and how I would improve it? It made me think, and unfortunately for the person… Read more
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A look at Gibraltar under lockdown
Like many others from working in sports and seeing it come to a halt there has been a necessity to make changes among which has been to assist with others areas. Having worked in news for quite a few years now before focusing exclusively on sport means that it was not a difficult transition as… Read more
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