May 19, 2020

What are awards for?

Who won the 1976 Olympic Summer Games gold medal for trapshooting? Don’t know? Neither do I. Which makes me wonder, what are awards for, anyway?

April 21, 2020

Getting noticed

How do you get noticed by publishers? How do you break-in to kids’ books? It’s easy, make work, often. Eventually, it’ll be so good it can’t be ignored.

March 24, 2020

Beyond Normal

Living in the space where the risk lies is the only way we’ll produce work that’s beyond normal, the new normal, a one-of-a-kind.

February 25, 2020

The joy of unsubscribers

Everyone will tell you to grow your audience or increase your market share. But good art isn’t for everyone, so maybe picking a side is better?

January 7, 2020

Disposable income, disposable time

Maybe time works like income. You need to spend a certain amount of it on ‘essentials’, but then there’s a ‘budget’ for how we choose to spend the rest?

December 31, 2019

Why reviews don’t really matter

By the time my work is in public, I’m a different person. So whilst it’s interesting to see how people respond to the work, it doesn’t really matter.

December 17, 2019

All in

What’s all-in for you might not mean all-in for another. Maybe you can still be all-in with your art without having to rely on it for income.