“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare
Category: substack
The artist’s view of an art exhibition
This post is to show you how glamorous my life is an artist.
The time will pass anyway.
Pass these timeless words on to someone today.
Wrestling with the 🅷EGO
Expressing your inferiority complex through the lens of the 80s muscle man on a blank canvas
Why We Don’t Feel We Can Achieve Big Goals, and What the Real Barrier Is
An wonderful guest post by Beth Raps PhD
#3 Geoff Thompson Podcast
A raw long-form conversation on FEAR with former five times world karate champion, Geoff Thompson.
#4 Love yourself like your life depends on it
The Kamal Ravikant Episode.
An Artist's reflection conversation with AI
Better than self-reflection?
SLART October 2023 Retrospective
Overview of an Artist’s October Observations
#5 The 10-Second Philosophy
Derek “The Standards Guy” Mills Episode.
SLART Critique by Jerry Saltz
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Art Critic-Style Review.
#6 Art, 90s Hip hop music & the Tao te ching
SLART Interview with Thomas Berryman TV.
#7 Finding Peace Through Art: A Journey Beyond Chronic Illness
A lovely chat with brilliant Life Coach, Janis Hough.
#8 Art and Healing: Navigating Trauma and Body Image Reflections
Podcast with Artists Tara Vatanpour & Sophie El-Homsi.
Remembering loved ones on 11/11
⏳ MEMENTO MORI ⌛
“How do I…? “ Really means “Can I have permission to…?”
No one can truly tell you HOW to do something.
#9 A bold, vulnerable conversation with Ruby Wax on Social Anxiety
The butterfly effect that almost never happened…
SLART's Artistic Fusion of Dubuffet, Shrigley, and Haring
Interview with Jessica Turner, Art Journalist*.
Weekly Art Practice #3
Finishing studio touches and new ideas.
The never ending promise of food 🍔
Even if I had a bottomless bucket of KFC it would never satiate me
March 2024 Retrospective
Inside an Artist’s March: Massive action, wellness and gratitute.
The flywheel is spinning
Weekly Art Practice #10: Embracing Rejections, Moving Forward, submitting proposals with Power and Grace.
Limitless
Obstacles of the mind.
Cause and effect: Useful habits that aren't that really useful at all
How much time would you waste to save £12.99?
Sharing my Art Practice
Studio time is precious.
A simpler art practice
Removing all chases and the most important thing, the enjoyment of creating art.
Biscuit-addled Mind
Get the kettle on. How do you take yours? Three TV sets and a splash of WhatsApp, please. On second thoughts, I’ll just have black coffee.
To Don’t List 2024
Less is more. No goals just vibes. Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
SLART 2023 Retrospective
A year in the life of an artist and new father.
#14 My Internal Goliath
Making eye contact with Goliath: A Journey of Triumph Over Shyness and Social Anxiety.
#13 ̶N̶o̶t̶ Everyone ̶U̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ Loves House Music
With the French Superstar DJ formally known as Franck Keller Junior, now known as Francine.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans
A cosmic joke that you just have to ̶l̶a̶u̶g̶h̶ ̶a̶t̶ admire.
#12 Art and Music Therapy for Kidney Patients
…But it can benefit anyone. National Kidney Foundation Interview.
Time the great equaliser
Here today, gone tomorrow. The sands of time keep on ticking.
#11 Where is the edge? [of art] with Beth Raps
We were only just getting started!
#10 The Journey From Social Anxiety to Self Confidence
with Supercoach Michael Neill.
SLART November 2023 Retrospective
Notable Notions from an Artist’s November Noticings
My tuppence worth on smartphone [over] usage in modern society
It’s like walking into another room and forgetting what you came in for, but on your phone, and forever. So, stop it!
Weekly Art Practice #2
Time for renewal. Studio decluttering session.
The Art of Self-Appreciation over Comparison
No one can excel at being you like you can.
When Rozza Rox Met Sir David Suchet
on a bright, crisp, autumn Sunday afternoon.