We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lex Lucius. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lex below.

Lex, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

My very first memory, I was possibly 3 maybe 4 years old, is of setting on the floor under my parent’s 33 1/2 cabinet record player. I was doing scribble drawings in blue crayon of horses. The drawing of course is long lost but the memory is still as sharp as that day. From that first memory forward I have never wanted or even thought of myself as anything other then a artist. Being an artist professionally or not professionally is irrelevant, being an artist comes from your soul and it is undeniable. Being an artist is greater then the quest for money or fame, is greater then the mundane filling of life’s need. It is in essence undeniable.

Lex, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am going to keep my focus narrow here although throughout my life I have touched many different disciplines and each has in their own way informed my current life as a painter. While most of my work comes straight from me with no outside input when I do work with clients, which I occasionally do, the most important thing I can do is to truly listen. Not just to what the client is saying but to what they want but can’t say. Few people have words for what is truly important to them. When i work with clients its my job to find out what they can not say.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

If there is a reward beyond the actual experience of making the work itself it would be seeing my creations out in the world, loved and valued by others. I once read that true creation is not the act of creating but the change that the art creates in the viewer. I don’t know if this is true but it has the ring of truth to it. If every day someone gets up and upon seeing something I made then has a better day or becomes a better person that is true reward.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Being a creative ( not a term I love) is foremost not a A to B journey. To survive in a culture like ours which primarily places its values in the acquisition of wealth in many cases requires the creative to develop many side strategies just to survive. It’s important to realize that these strategies do not mean the creative is abandoning their prime motivation rather these are survival techniques to allow them to continue life in our culture. The art drive is still there and the art itself will re-emerge when the opportunity presents itself.

Contact Info:

• Website: Lexlucius.com
• Instagram: @lucius.lex

Image Credits
Lex Lucius Design