As I approach the end of the first semester, of my third and final year of my degree, anxieties regarding the future have become evermore recurrent. To graduate and find a job, one that ensures stability and is well paid, seems like the obvious course of direction, but for me, giving up creativity would be (no exaggeration!) soul destroying!
Two years ago, I knew that I loved art, I’d draw anything with the intent of creating something impressively realistic (and naively assumed that that was the objective in art). However, I was adamant I couldn’t draw, paint, or do anything landscape orientated. After a year into my fine art degree, I decided to take myself off in my car and paint the landscape that I knew and loved. I painted all day, sheltered from the rain and comforted by the heater in my car; I watched the world go by at Bwlch Nant Yr Arian. My painting didn’t represent the landscape in realistic detail, but it conveyed my experience within it, on that day. That day was a turning point for me, of which I started to enjoy my art practice more than I ever had before!
Today, my Saturday consisted of taking myself up to that first place I gained inspiration, and painted. I don’t know what it is I will go on to do in the future, but all I know is that this is what makes me the happiest.
Looking North at Bwlch Nant Yr Arian, acrylic on canvas, 24x37cm
Adalia Mynett 
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