Jan 2023
From the studio of
Niall Conlon,
When I left my steady job of 11years to pursue a career in the arts a lot of people thought I had gone bonkers and maybe I have 😜 but sometimes we’ve got to trust our gut & do what we feel is right.
There are always going to be external voices that won’t agree with your choices or or understand the direction we decide to take but we must stay true to ourselves.
Inspired by my art heroes Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring & Willem de Kooning. I painted this pieces to remind me to trust my instincts & to not give up on my dreams.
Some people may not believe in you but the most important person to believe in is yourself.
Personally my dream has always been to be a painter & I love having a space where I can express my emotions..
Often at times we can let doubts & worries creep into our consciousness & to deal with our anxieties we can fall into cycles of destructive habits & behaviours which end up being the road to no town.
For me painting really does provide a positive escape where I can live purely in the moment & all life’s worries fade into the background.
Below are a series of head paintings which convey the different emotions that I have felt on my road to becoming a full-time artist.
They are titled RELEASE THE PRESSURE, BLOCK OUT THE NOISE, SCRAMBLED & HAMMERHEAD.
Each one represents the different emotional states I was feeling at the time of painting.
My hope is that the viewer may see something of themselves in the work…we are after all going through this journey of human experience together.
As an artist I am on a mission to make my art as accessible and available to everyone who loves & appreciates it.
This is the reason why I am giving away a limited number of my fine art prints for FREE.
All I would ask is that you cover the small postage handling & packaging fee of £4.65. (This will help ensure your print arrives in good condition & in good time.)
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Peace, love & empathy,
Niall
