In late 2011 I entered a competition run by Stoli Vodka to find four people to star in a short film about creativity in the UK. I was a brand new artist at the time, having just finished my course at the London College of Communication four months earlier. I had begun...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I love to read stories about how the people I admire got to where they are now. I especially love stories of other later bloomers or people who changed direction in life. I read as many as I can, often written by artists, always...
Those of you who have known me for a while know that I once wrote a blog called “The Drama Queens Guide to Changing the World.” It was like a personal journal of my life change from stressed stockbroker to a new, more creative life. I loved writing for it...
If you want to be a photographer in today’s world, you will be bombarded with stories of woe and terror. You’ll hear that no one will want to pay you…….ever. You’ll hear that amateurs charging low rates are pricing professional photographers out of every...
Many of us think we’re not creative because we don’t create. We believe that creativity cannot be denied, cannot be suppressed. We believe that it bursts through. We believe it overcomes everything else. And if it doesn’t……it’s not there. This is one of...
Ok, so I know these posts are cheesy but I can’t help myself. I feel a pathological need around New Year, and again around my birthday, to take stock of everything I’ve done in the last year. This is a good exercise generally for reminding yourself how far you’ve...
