Freedom Art -  Interview with Nathan Bowen, Street Artist

Are you inspired? 
Steven is at Woodbury House with Nathan Bowen, Guerrilla Street Artist. His style is unique, fast, dynamic and unpredictable with his signature characters ‘ the demons’ invading building sites and hoardings all over London. 
Nathan paints internationally and his ideas are fresh and edgy continually reminding people that there is no limit to your imagination it’s all about being creative and free. 
In this episode, they discuss fine art, painting abroad, how Nathan developed his freedom art and how being featured on The Apprentice changed his life. 
  
KEY TAKEAWAYS 
Whether you are a salesperson, athlete, artist or entrepreneur having a vision is key. 
My freedom art is sketchy scribbly loose lines, I gave up trying to be perfect. 
I developed this style during my final year studying fine art at St Martin’s in London 
I like my work to appeal to and be accessible to everyone, I want my work to be in every household. 
I originally started with graffiti and got arrested which made me realise I wanted to stop sneaking around with my hood up so I applied and went to St Martins to do fine art. 
My artwork being featured as a part of the Apprentice series changed my life. After the program, I was able to sell my art and make a living from it 
It all came down to timing - the artwork featured on the program was the bearskin hat character and people were feeling very patriotic at the time so after the program, I was approached for commissions and my artwork started selling. 
I do the characters such as the builders and the bearskin hat soldier to remind people that these people are an important part of London. 
The demon characters were originally  based on the idea of a comic strip. 
I was working on building sites at the time which is why the first demon character I created was a builder with a Hi-Viz jacket and hard hat. 
The demon characters are humans but on a different  level 
You have to do things because you love doing them, 
The challenges and setbacks have to be absorbed and overcome along the way. I got loads of haters because I did a piece of work, a commission, at Charing cross police station 
People get to a certain point in life and then the important thing is about maintaining it. 
Be organic and get beyond social media - it’s all about thinking outside and beyond the box. 
I do it my way, you need to do it your way. 
  
BEST MOMENTS 
‘I originally thought I’d be a cartoon artist I never thought I’d be drawing my own characters’ 
‘All the time I think about art, it never leaves me’ 
‘Think outside the box and do your own thing don’t do it by the book’ 
‘You want to come and vandalise my stuff, I’ll just come back again and again to retouch it’ 
‘If you want a side hustle – I do face painting at carnivals for the fun of it’ 
  
VALUABLE RESOURCES 
The Steven Sully Study Podcast 
Woodbury House Art 
Nathan Bowen website 
  
ABOUT THE HOST 
The Steven Sulley Study is my take on success. My view is you should have multiple focuses to be a well-rounded individual. Success shouldn't be just one thing like money, for example, it should also consist of a healthy fit lifestyle and thriving relationships. As a person who has made a success in life and also made huge cock-ups I feel I can offer suggestions and tips on how to become successful or at least start your pursuit. My 'Study' has taken resources from reading and education plus being around, my perception, of successful people and I, know a lot of successful people from all walks of life. My 'Study' coming from my experiences in business, investing, sales (my core background), training, boxing and education has enabled me to become well rounded and successful. 
  
CONTACT METHOD 
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