So much of daily life pulls us along at a breakneck pace, the clamour for our attention is relentless. Creativity is one area where putting…
How Trusting in Time and Your Creative Process Allows Transformation and Creative Flow To Happen.
Category: Creative Process
A collection of blog posts describing my creative processes. How I listen to music, see that music via my synasesthesia, draw it and make jewellery from it.
How I Use My Ability to See Sound to Draw Portraits of Musicians: The Portrait of a Bassist Series
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with time-lapse photography while I draw music. You will have seen my Iron Maiden drawings in my last post. This series…
See Synaesthetic Art Magically Appearing; A Time Lapse of Drawing Iron Maiden
I thought I’d do something a bit different this week, I’ve been experimenting with time-lapse photography while I draw music. It adds a whole new…
How It Took Eleven Years After Leaving Art School to Learn How to Draw Properly.
I’m not one of those people who is going to disparage my time at art school as unproductive, I learnt loads while I was studying,…
As I Make Unusual Jewellery The Energy Of Matt Bellamy’s Guitar Playing Pours Into It
Do you listen to music when you are making jewellery? I’m answering a question asked by a customer today about my process for making jewellery:…
The Seven Phenomenal Lessons I’ve Learnt From Music and how they Changed Me Profoundly as a Visual Artist.
It’s nearing the end of the year and the traditional time for making lists of stuff is upon us. So rather than a list of…
Four Ways I Invite Chaos into My Creative Process Eliminating Failure and Making My Jewellery More Authentic as a Result.
Nobody wants to fail, am I right? That hideous feeling you get when something you are trying to create starts to crumble, come apart at…
When I tune in I’m using my synaesthesia to see music as shapes and colour, then draw it …live.
I’m standing at the edge of a stage, to my left is Steve Lawson one of the most renown solo-bassists in the UK if not…
When I Entered Room 50 I Found Ancient Jewellery Magic and Spellbinding Craftsmanship
Room 50 at the British Museum is full of treasure. It’s where the European Iron Age Celtic treasure hordes are displayed and where you will…
How Simon Gallup’s Brazen Crazy Bass Sound Gave Me The Reason I Need To Start Using Bronze and Copper: The Cure Play Wembley Arena 1/12/16
I was a huge Cure fan back in the late ’80s, big black and white poster of Robert Smith on my bedroom wall, had all…