Jack

Me working on my Tarot Moon card For followers of my art, I will now title my blog posts with either Art: followed by blog post title or Tarot: followed by blog post title. This is so that people only interested in the art side of things can just view the relevant posts. I will be spending a lot of this year painting my Tarot cards but plan on doing other painting in between and I want to do a post here for each completed painting so look out for that. For those of you that don't know, I...

Getting sober is tough, staying sober is harder still. I was a troubled kid and as soon as I hit twelve, I started getting stoned and drinking, it made me feel less bad about existing. I was taking everything else I could get my hands on by the time I was fifteen. The problem is, as soon as you can't be high, the depression, anxiety and dread all come back in, tenfold. Eventually my mental and physical health couldn't take it anymore and I had to stop or die. I went from being a kid to waking...

This is a series of paintings where I paint school teachers from memory, trying to get their essence in quick paintings from my cloudy mind. I then write here any memories conjured up. Mr Blair was a pleasant enough teacher. He was tall, camp and moved around in a carefree fashion. I didn’t understand much of what he said because he tended to speak in French quite a bit. He seemed like a practical man who didn’t waste his effort in a direction where he knew it wouldn’t be effective but...