What happens when children’s publishing is too afraid to focus on good fiction?
The slow death of fiction in picture books?
Category: Making
An addiction to steep learning curves
A journey into art may be about reckoning with how little one knows about oneself and the rest of the world.
What’s illustration for?
If it’s about image-making, then why not stickc with photography or video? What’s so special about illustration?
The worst part of the process
Maybe it’s not that we don’t like something, it’s just that we don’t understand it yet.
For and Against Tradition
The constraints of ‘tradition’ can be useful, but so too is our capacity to completely ignore them
Tennis is more interesting when the tennis is on
If more people play tennis when the tennis is on, what does art need for people to start making it.
Some people just like fishing
I don’t remember where I read it, but the quote goes something like this: “Anyone could go to their local fish market and buy fish far healthier and tastier than they could catch themselves. Some people just like fishing.” In an increasingly globalised world, almost anything can be outsourced, and yet, we still have a… Continue reading Some people just like fishing
Healthy distractions
In a high-performance productivity culture, are new hobbies just distractions? Or, are they healthy ways to live a broader human experience
Process over product
How does one measure the success of one’s efforts? Is the painting artefact or the the painting process the point?
Laugh, Think, Cry 2022: Favourite films
Film is, and continues to be, the biggest influence on my creative life. Here are the most influential ones for 2022.