On the way to our favourite local coffee shop, an old cypriot man lived in a garden full of fruit trees – lemons, cumquats, and oranges. His name was Ioannis (pronounced Yannis). Whenever we passed Ioannis and he was in his front garden (either having a smoke or tending to the trees) we’d have a short… Continue reading In memory of Ioannis
Once you realise that there are more projects in your brain than you have time in your life to make, how do you choose?
It only takes a few simple and interesting lines for an idea to emerge, so perhaps we should all just start there?
If the answer to this question is yes, I know I’m on to something.
What if ‘writing’ your story or your idea didn’t involve using words but, instead, you did it with pictures, first?
Why is it so difficult to give ourselves permission to stare at clouds when we’re at adults, especially when it pays off so consistently?
Starting is and has always been the most difficult bit of art making for me. But knowing that if I turn the key, the rest writes itself, makes it easier.
Can anyone teach you how to be your authentic self?
Almost everything we’ve done before was, at some point, something we’d never done before. So what can we learn from this?
Why bother trying to make art? If it’s all been done already, surely there’s no point. Right?
