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Just Imagine…
Unleashing your Creative Potential in the Promise of the New Year
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WILLIAM HIGGINSON
My life is art. It permeates every moment of my day; even asleep, my
dreams are sketched on canvas, painted voyages of imagination. Every day
I strive to achieve my maximum potential and enjoy every single step of
that journey. The principle that I keep strong in my work is that all problems
have a solution. I like to poke at a worldly or personal issue and have the
solution buried deep in the imagery. It’s usually human nature that I am
having fun with, and my concepts are built upon every individual and their
daily stories and activities. My favourite way to draw inspiration is to grab
a cup of tea, find a park bench in a quiet park or in the busy city and let my
mind do the rest. The more stimulation I have around me and the quieter
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my mind is, the more it allows something new to appear.
The time required to dive fully into my process is like water – it fills all the
potential space around daily responsibilities. When the space is there,
we can reach the "zone", and we know we are in the zone when time is
not on our mind. This is the place where patience, focus and imagination
germinate to full bloom. My paintings usually start as very simple concepts.
Once there is one pillar of an idea, other possibilities of subject matter
can always relate to it, because within one idea there can be reflections
of everything else. If there is one fundamental principle in my art, I would
have to say it's the opposite of nihilism.
"Everything does matter. Things are important if we make
them important."
There is so much to learn, to fix and to understand in this life, we should
never be bored.
See the article Just Imagine…with our Feature Artists on the back cover to
find out how you can hear talks and see demos by these inspiring artists.
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