ARTIST STORY

How I Creatively Grew My Wings And Learnt To Fly

From just a little starbeam, I began using many forms of art to express myself and leave my mark in both 3D sculpture and 2D art forms.

As I started attending those typical days at school, I always felt like the odd unicorn. I couldn't always fit in, I felt a little different and like a unicorn, I believed that I was rare. Luckily, I am very grateful to have a supportive family who just encouraged me to find my own feet on the way. But as school continued, I was told to “try harder” and I even started believing that I wasn’t going to achieve much in life too. The subjects I could connect well with the most were the physical ones such as P.E, Art and Science.

After High School, I decided to attend a local Art College called Northbrook in Sussex. Mixing with like-minded people opened my eyes up to finding my own place in the art industry and my world finally seem brighter. I was selected to be the featured artist of our final exhibition show in London with my interactive moving image art installation piece.

Afterwards, I decided to spread my fairy wings by attending university away from home to truly find myself. I was so excited to be given many university offers around the country after hearing fabulous feedback from my art portfolios, but I finally decided to choose Bournemouth University.

This was when I had been officially diagnosed with dyslexia, which instantly caused so many parts of my life to now make sense. Now that I understood myself a bit better, I decided that I wasn’t going to let this stop me. I saw dyslexia as my own superhero power, enabling me to see the world so differently to everybody else.

University helped me experiment with many different art forms to express myself through. It was important for me to give everything a go and have my final pieces displayed at art shows.

After graduation, I moved to Brighton and started working within the art industry as an artist sculpture assistant and display consultant.

Shortly after, I moved to Windsor to work at Legoland as a Workshop Supervisor Teacher. I soon progressed into a Legoland Model Maker, and then eventually a Master Model Maker Designer.

During this chapter of my life, I lost count on how many lego sculptures I designed from scratch.

The models ranged from just a little Mini-land pigeon, to more challenging builds such as the Sydney Opera House.

After a few years, working for others inspired me to start working for myself. Living back in Brighton, I started working independently on a fun and positive arts and craft YouTube channel called Razdazthem. 

This year I opened up on my own online store to sell a range of art work inspired by all of the places I have lived or visited in the past and present.

I am still that odd little unicorn, but I couldn't be happier to be me!