Danny Gregory
Danny Gregory spent most of his life not believing he had the right to consider himself an artist in any way. But then he started drawing about fifteen years ago and it changed his life. It led him to travel, to meet people, to get books published, but most of all it transformed the way he sees the world around him and how he experiences every day.
Danny believes that everyone has the same opportunity. Not to become a Professional Artist but to make art into a regular part of your everyday life. It doesn’t matter what your elementary school art teacher said, or your parents, or your boss. You have it in you to draw, to play an instrument, to write poetry, whatever you choose. You can and should express your self. Regardless of what you fear anyone else may thinks of the results, you can become a creative person and achieve a new view of the life you lead.
Danny often wonders what the world would be like if every adult was as creative and free as we all were as kids. He thinks it would be calmer, lovelier, more peaceful place. And he’d like to do something about it.
Talk: Everyday Matters – The Art of the Illustrated Journal
When was the last time you drew every day? In art school? In high school? In pre-school? What if you could get back into that habit, filling sketchbooks with ideas and observations, expressing yourself, stifling your inner critic, having fun, making stuff?
Danny Gregory will inspire you with his own story of creative discovery — how he began drawing again in his mid thirties, keeping an illustrated journal of his day-to-day life, and how this practice opened him up to all sorts of new experiences and discoveries. His example, his books and his website have inspired many thousands of people around the world to rediscover their own creative spark. His first illustrated memoir “Everyday Matters” lent its name to a movement that now includes professional and amateur artists around the world who document and share their lives through drawing and writing.
