We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Christopher Kuithe. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Christopher below.
Hi Christopher , so happy you were able to devote some time to sharing your thoughts and wisdom with our community. So, we’ve always admired how you have seemingly never let nay-sayers or haters keep you down. Can you talk to us about how to persist despite the negative energy that so often is thrown at folks trying to do something special with their lives?
The biggest nay-sayer I have to fight is the one within myself. Negative self talk, ciclical thought patterns and limiting beliefs are a monster within most of us that we have to face to move forward. I heard a quote that said ,” If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect others too as well?” I try to remind myself of this every day, and remember that my creative dreams are real, valuable and true.
With social media playing a huge role in todays’ world, it can be easy to allow other people’s perceived success to justify the feeling of failure. I myself struggle with this sometimes. When that happens I remind myself that I have a vision and the ability to translate it into the physical world and that in itself is a beautiful thing.
I have been told I shine pretty bright, I try to push people to do the things they love or are scared to do, and this can attract a lot of darkness from others who are too afraid to confront that part of themselves. When it comes to hate I believe the hate shows more about the other person, I am just the mirror reflecting it back to them. What other people think of me is none of my business!
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
When I was in my early twenties, someone told me that being an artist is a life long relationship that you either nurture or suffocate. After spending 6 years of my 20’s in the corporate world, iced out by the ugliness of everyone out for themselves, my art was a welcoming call home. I was on pause until I picked up my paint brush once again, and I had no idea until i began to paint.
I am a southern boy at heart, with ties to Coastal Georgia, Atlanta and Nashville. My interest in art truly ignited when I moved in with my father and step mother here in East Nashville in 2008. Nancy, my step mother, helped open my eyes to my creative potential, always helped provide supplies, and sharing her confidence with me. She is a creative force that I am grateful to call family. If it wasn’t for her, it would’ve taken a lot longer for me to discover my artistic expression and perspective.
I am self taught mostly, but did spend my senior year of high school attending Nashville School of the Arts. Everyone was unique, peculiar and strange. I loved it!
Over the past two years I have gotten back behind the canvas and it has been such a joy. I have done a plethora of commissions, been in publications thanks to Nashville Voyager and CanvasRebel. I also have my plein air artwork for sale at Belle Meade Framers which I am incredibly excited about. Commissions and my surrealist work I sell through my social media or email, and I am still working on my online infrastructure but slowly getting all my ducks in a row.
In January of 2026 I will be having a show at the Jewish Community Center here in Nashville. I will have more information the closer the show gets, but I have tons of exciting ideas I can’t wait to share with you all. Stay tuned!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Skill 1: Be your own teacher
My father is a very talented self taught inventor and audio engineer, and growing up he always told me, “only compete with yourself, not the bar others set for you. When you think you’ve mastered something, then it’s time to move on.” My father taught himself a lot of what he knows, seeking knowledge until he knew a topic inside and out. With that in mind I taught myself how to draw and paint by replicating things that I loved, reading and practicing. You don’t need school to do things successfully, all the information you need is accessible through books, online sources and practice!
Skill 2: Patience
Patience is an important quality to remember when persuing art. Skill takes time, practice and consistency. As they say “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” neither is artistic ability. Draw the mundane, practice your hands and feet, draw a cup, or a tree, just draw and you’ll improve your artistic vision. Even if you only spend 15 minutes a day practicing, add that time up over a year and you will be amazed.
Skill 3: Consistency
When I haven’t drawn or painted in a few days or a week I can feel it. I get irritable, frustrated, overwhelmed with the world and so on. As soon as I start drawing or doing something creative my brain stops all the worry and fully concentrates on the creative challenge ahead. For us artists, I believe creativity is our self care. We must create. Draw/paint when your frustrated, draw/paint when your happy, draw/paint when your sad, you may surprise yourself with some amazing ideas.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?
As an artist, I find that my creative perception is working all the time. This can be exhausting while trying to maintain life’s demands and requirements. I often have so many ideas that I get overwhelmed and don’t know which one’s to persue and which ones to leave behind. Whenever I get overwhelmed, I put whatever I’m doing down, take my shoes off and go outside. I put my feet on the Earth, try and completely clear my mind and let go of all the energy that isn’t serving me at the time.
Intuition is a huge guide in my life and my work, but with all the noise in today’s society it can be hard to hone in to what our intuition is telling us. When I need guidance I go to nature and listen to what she tells me. Nature is where my spiritual connection is strongest. When I’m overwhelmed with ideas or aren’t sure which direction I want to take, I usually will draw something in nature, either a floral drawing or plein air oil pastel. This usually gets me out of my wondering mind and brings me back down to the present moment. I hope this helps someone who is struggling to ground themselves, or are overwhelmed and unsure of what’s next. Trust your gut, follow your intuition and the next step will reveal itself.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.sckcreative.design
- Instagram: sckcreative
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sckuithe
- Other: TikTok: SCKuithe
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