“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola
I went to an art fair at the weekend. It was pure joy. I chatted to artists about their work/the story behind it/their process/their path to doing what they do..
🎨There was the fine artist who said he always painted as a child then spent 20 years working in law, not painting at all, before returning to art.
“Do you paint every day?”
“Oh ten hours a day.”
His work was incredible. Portrait paintings so flawless they could have been photos.
📷The photographer who spoke so passionately about an image he’d captured of Tibetan Buddhists worshipping by their temple.
“A monk led me to a high-up spot so I could get this shot from a better angle!”
🏝️The interior designer who lived in Bali for five years, whose friends kept telling her “you’re an artist!”.
The gallery owner turned artist.
The knitwear designer.
The art-schooled and the self-taught.
So many stories.
So many wildly different life-paths.
So much beautiful art 💫.
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
― Stella Adler
Above painting by J Suyi
The Colourful Kind 