“Art is the greatest asset to mental health I have”
I don’t doubt for a second that if my life had taken any other path and I didn’t have the (sometimes) luxury of drawing for a living I wouldn’t be half as happy or content in where I am now. Drawing has managed to get me through some of the toughest times in my lil life so far, and the process over the last year or two of getting back to drawing for the sake of drawing, sitting with my eyes closed and scribbling my inner deep dark (and happier) thoughts has served a massive therapeutic benefit on my recovery and process of becoming a semi functioning adult.
Here’s the full version of my illustration from the UsFolk MoodBoard exhibition and our final show in our beautiful little Queen Street studios. This place, and all the beautiful people in my lil extended Usfolk family that have been part of making it what it is have given me some of the best, messiest and funniest nights of my 20somethings, as well as countless opportunities in my career. I would say it was an emotional goodbye, but honestly I can’t even remember walking out the door for that final time, and I think that’s what the building would have wanted
