Born to Create

Rachel is a creator In London crafting art & photography about People, Places, and Florals. As a London-based personal branding photographer, Rachel specialises in creating visually stunning images that show the unique experience that creative and luxury brands offer their clients. She creates timeless portraits to celebrate key moments in ones life and branding imagery for brands to help them...

Alexandra is an American-Austrian art historian, curator, and writer. She graduated with first-class honours from University College London with a BA in History of Art and continued her education with an MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, graduating with Distinction in 2021. She has worked part-time at Sotheby's auction house in London since 2017. She curates and writes o...

Laura is a printmaker working with linocut, woodblock and traditional Japanese woodblock printing. She has a degree in Art History/Visual Art from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and is elected to the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. Laura attended three printmaking residencies in Japan, studying woodblock printmaking with master craftsmen and her book ‘Making Japanese Woodblock Prints’,...

If you are new to NFT's and would like to hear about it from the Senior Manager & Curator of NFT's and Digital art from Saatchi Art, the World's Leading Online Gallery, then you are in the right place here! I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation where Capucine breaks NFT's down into digestible information and gives class advice for emerging artists in general and in the NFT and digital space....

Stefano Favaretto, , Is an Italian photographer and NFT artist. After working as psychologist and psychotherapist for about 17 years, he became a full time artist following his passion for photography. His artistic research aims to investigate the relationships between real life materials and the spiritual world. Favaretto tries to capture the figures and the energies in the natural elem...

Stephanie is a multidisciplinary artist and creative from Berkshire, England. Her work is focused on ‘the human condition.’ Drawing inspiration from her own life experiences and by the observation of others’ In Stephanies highly emotive and expressive works, the aim is to invite the viewer to question, with hope of discovery. Abstraction and surrealism are the predominant genres used, often with a...

A powerful conversation about the power of your mind, the power of decision making through the heart and non-dependent on ones feelings or thoughts.  Listening back to this episode gave me goosebumps and inspired me a lot. It is an episode that highlights the power of mindset, which when truly connected with to this level overrides mental health conditions that one might easily feel defeated...

Mike Brennan is a Creator & Communicator, telling stories on pages & stages. His artistic journey began as a boy in New York, where he would construct heartwarming greeting cards which lit up the faces of his family and friends. From an early age, he understood the importance of serving others through his art and bringing them value, an ethos still evident in his creative practice today. M...

Adalea Howell is an acrylic artist, instructor from Houston Texas and as well as doing her own art she supports other artists through a platform the Sandbar Art Studio, celebrating and connecting creatives, hosting supportiveart competitions and offering free resources for artists. In this episode I am talking with Adalea about her art process, her relationship to art and how it all started. We ta...

Jyager is a north London Artist, Rapper,Record Producer, songwriter, entrepreneur and MME Label CEO Jyager. Originally from Cape Verde and a descent of a west african angolan family, Jyager was raised in Lisbon Portugal until the age of 6 when he moved to England in 1993 with his mother and sister in search of a better life Jyager went to Anyward Secondary School in North London, Edmonton where he...

This episode with Arron Jack, dives deep into the possibilities of creating, through presence, environmental and space awareness,  and the idea of letting go and allowing yourself to be who you are in this present moment.  Aaron has a wonderful meditative way of expressing himself, which is a great inspiration to start practicing attention. One of the sentences I will not forget was 'What&apo...

Chris Trueman is an artist who has worked between painting and digital media for twenty years. He double majored in Painting and Digital media at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. He has exhibited his work broadly both domestically and internationally. In 2018 he was one of the early adopters of NFT technology. Since then, Chris has been invited t...

Eye Leakim is a 27 year old highly sensitive photographer/ visual artist and writer who uses his art to  talk about the “taboos” and the “unspoken” reality we live in  these days and he shares his views and feelings visually according to each concept and story.  He describes his style as hypersensitive & thought “Provocative” Art. I very much enjoyed meeting Eye Leakim, as he shows courage,  r...

An 'accidental' artist with a passion about cultures, mythology, and symbols. Koorosh Nejad opens up about how he discovered his artistic side in the middle of the Pandemic, through an accidental momoent,  helping him to recover from depression and find a new purpose in life. Nejad: 'My art is my reflection on mythology, symbols, signs, characters, and other cultural elements of anc...

Eezmah is a Saudi Arabian Artist and illustrator with a background in fashion design.  She creates whimsical, fun, illustrations and characters.  She's known for her focus on cartoonish portraits of women with big eyes.  Eezmah currently freelances and works with brands and individuals to create whimsical illustrations that could help elevate their business or sell more products. IG @eezmah T...

HALLIDONTO, Posthuman, futurist, thinker, polymath, a contemporary visual artist/poet from Dundee, Scotland, based in London England. Hallidonto’s practice and research are centered around his “Cyborgia Manifesto” his work is multifaceted, with many layers of meaning. From a complex imagination associated with various media contexts in relation to the future, his visual discourse is motivated by t...

'Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.' Carl Jung  This episode features an artist, who ‘discovered’ his art by observing that place Jung spoke of. He was led by synchronicity and was allowed by it to channel hidden information that proves the phenomenon of synchronicity comes from a timeless dimension, a spirit of nature synonymous with beauty, whose s...

Nasi is a 27 year old Dutch artist who works with mixed media on paper. The main material she uses is watercolours, but inks, acrylics and oil pastels are also included in her works. The subjects of her artworks are critical thoughts towards contemporary society or herself, often related to the problems with the ‘stone-age mind’ (i.e. the discrepancy between contemporary society and our  biology)....

'You don't have to be an Artist to do Art!' The next Artist on the Born to Create Podcast is the wonderful Kristen Morley: 'As a queer, mixed-race artist, I describe myself as existing in the ‘between’ spaces. Straddling demographics, I often find myself observing the world from the periphery, and am particularly interested in examining the ways that we relate to our environmen...

For this Episode I am interviewing Scout Wilson! Wow what a beautiful interview! She has some wonderful quality and power to her within her sensitivity  and  depth!  Scout  mostly focuses on painting with a little tattooing on the side. She is a quiet person with a lot to say & art helps her get there.  At the moment  she works full time as a pharmacy technician, doing art shows on the weekend...

Sam Millar is the Executive Producer at  The UK Americana Bar TV Show- A Family Variety Music TV Show with Comedy Cooking,  a Big foot and with everything Americana, from Musicians of Americana Music, Blues, Jazz, Country to Americana Food and much more! Sam recorded his first album in Nashville, which  was rated one of the best contributions to British country music.  From there he went on to pla...

Instagram: @LaurenMagdaArt Website: LaurenMagda.com https://laurenmagda.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/laurenmagdaart/  Laurén is an abstract painter who uses her art as a meditation practice to infuse spiritual energy and concepts into her work. Her work aims to give others a sense of healing and inner-spiritual empowerment.  She tells: 'My journey with my creativity has been a long and...

Nick Forkeotes is a Full time artist who uses raw emotions to express creativity.  With  36 years of age, with just under a year of painting, he is a recovering addict who found his love of painting as an emotional release during his early days in recovery.  Painting has changed his life!  I enjoyed the conversation with Nick so much because of his open vulnerability and rawness of his art and exp...

The next Star of our Show of Artists Interviews on the Born to Create Podcast is the wonderful and witty Andy Johnson! I had so much fun with him on the interview, having a lot of laughs and lots of movement on the camera as he is very expressive and his creative energy is flowing!!Here is a little bit about Andy, who I know from my time at Hurtwood House, Uk's most creative School and he was...

Instagram @lbdarrin & @souldacity Website : souldacity.com Souldacity Spotify Kicking off the new year strong we have new Podcast episodes coming and I am excited to announce the next Guest! Are you fearing that the current climate has crushed your dreams at being the artist you are here to be?  This podcast episode is touching on the current climate for artists, actors and all creatives, with...