As an artist, you never know where your work will end up.
I did this #ContinuousLineDrawing of a kickflip as something fun (even though I can’t skate but I do own a skateboard). A musician reached out and purchased the original art and…
…now it appears on a deck and it’s kinda blowing my mind!
It would be easy to label myself with Imposter Syndrome (“I am not a real artist” or “I am only starting out” or “My work isn’t that good”) but I refuse to accept the label. I write, therefore I am a writer. I create art, therefore I am an artist. Therefore, it’s in my bio.
I may be ’emerging’ or ‘new’ in the interim in my creative life, and I will always be a learner.
Write, draw, learn an instrument. Do not define yourself against others’ labels.
I have goals, dreams and visions of what I want to achieve in my writing and art.
It’s lead to my art appearing in Dr Willo Drummond’s debut poetry collection, Moon Wrasse, and now my art is on a skateboard.
The deck is available for preorder HERE. (I know what I’ll be preordering for Christmas for myself to put up on the wall.)
I would love my art to appear in other places (your CD cover or liner notes, your poetry collection, your short story collection, your wall).
There are pieces of my work scattered around Australia, probably the world (if I’ve sent you art, or you’ve bought it, let me know and send me a picture of it).
Be the artist.
Be the writer.
Be the creative.
A Fullness in Brevity - Adam Byatt 