There are some questions I get asked a lot, and one of them is this: What did you do before you were an artist? Well, as many of you know I was a freelance writer in the decade and a half leading up to my full-time art career, and actually I still write quite a lot. I’ve just branched out to selling art as well as writing.
Back to the original question, I did a lot of things, mostly working in marketing for various companies over the years. In the short video in this Instagram post, I even share what I did as my very first job. (I bet you will never, in a million years, guess what it is!)
If there is a theme for this set of Instagram posts, it is this: Real life happens behind the scenes. You see a lot of pretty posts on Instagram from artists, but behind the scenes we are all working hard to make a living, or we’ve got side gigs, or we’ve worked for years doing other things… in other words…. real life exists beyond the “pretty and perfect” you might see on social media.
