We were lucky to catch up with Kevin Newton recently and have shared our conversation below.
Kevin, appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?
How I keep my creativity alive is fundamentally simple… I create. When I say simple I don’t mean easy or that the process is not complex or without mental gymnastic challenges, it’s just the opposite really.
Daily, the overwhelming desire to again step out on the wire of self experimentation by letting myself be in the moment of being drives my passion to create. Then that’s when the battle of wills begins.
The dance between myself and the piece I’m fashioning into existence is always exhilarating. The blissful nirvana like passion of artistic accomplishment fuels my spirit while nourishing my always ravenous intellect.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Through my art the freedom of being in the moment of creating
A black and white life in full color best sums up my diversely eclectic output.
Diversity, powers my creative desire for experimentation.
In my abstract work, I get a charge from combining and contrasting ideas, which in is an ongoing battle of wills. The work itself has to tell me where to go, sometime to its own destruction. Yet, even those failed attempts may become part of a different masterpiece later. So I tend to keep, find and look out for potential found objects that may further inspire my abstract, unconventional, non-conformist art.
My full portfolio…http://knewart.artistportfolios.com
For prints…https://kevinnewton.artstorefronts.com
I’ll be exhibiting a mixed media piece at The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, opening date is 12/9/23.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
The muses have honored me with the power of eclectic diversity. The qualities that have been most impactful are my ability to keep on keeping on art wise. I never stop creating. Through wind, rain, sleet, bad jobs, injuries, etc. my prolific process seems bottomless.
Being a self taught artist, I never learned any “skills”, obviously this passion is inherited (ironically, neither parent was an artist).
Studying, viewing and embracing the cornucopia and diversity of all genres of art has been given me the knowledge to be smart enough to get out of the way and let myself be myself, which is a driven passionate creator.
Who is your ideal client or what sort of characteristics would make someone an ideal client for you?
Why ideal client is one that falls in love with my creations.
A patron that appreciates the blood, sweat and tears of the years and years of this Sisyphean like battle to stay inspired.
A believer that not only wants to promote, support and purchase the art that has already been created but also a faithful future collector ready, willing and able to aid in the creation of the “masterpieces” dancing in my head that have yet to be produced.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://knewart.artistportfolios.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/knewart4life/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KNewart/
Image Credits
Images copyright KNewArt (Kevin Newton)
