insideKENT Magazine Issue 38 - May 2015 | Page 146

BUSINESS

turning art into BUSINESS cont.
Janine Creaye // www.sculptureform.co.uk

David Melville // www.potteryman.co.uk

Tell us about the process that brought you from being a 'leisure' artist
to becoming a successful businessperson in the world of art.
I have never been a ‘leisure artist’. I have always known what I was and
through my A-Levels, undergraduate degree, as well as masters, that is
what I have pursued. I didn’t always know what skills I would use to express
this need to make a visual response to life, and gradually found that
painting/drawing alone was never physically engaging enough for me. Even
as I have reached middle age and have had to recognise the limitations of
my body, I know that the solution is pacing and working out easy methods
of moving weight (large stone and woodcarvings) rather than reducing your
ambitions to techniques that would not be appropriate to the work in hand.
I believe that each piece has its natural medium, so I do not limit myself to
one process.

Tell us about the
process that brought
you from being a
'leisure' artist to
becoming a successful
businessperson in the
world of art.
I was initially trained as an
engineer, but I was always
passionat R&