Today we’d like to introduce you to James Finnegan

Hi James , thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.

The best thing I could do was draw. It got me in trouble in grade school, but eventually made it possible to attend school and teach at a large University. My graduate experience established a work discipline that I continue in my studio work today

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?

Being an artist there is always self doubt. Finding a way to get through that doubt, continuing with your work, believing in yourself and your work is always something to battle with. After a while you recognize what it is and it loses its power. Most everyone I know needs to make a living, may have a family to support and finding time makes your work becomes even harder. If you are making work with a time crunch it’s difficult to have the work flow, You feel that there’s not enough time to experiment and let things happen.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?

My work is about the human need to understand and give reason, purpose, order to our lives. Science, Medicine, religion, our everyday lives are affected by that desire. We all experience this. There is more that we don’t know than we know. Searching is what we are doing. My drawings, like life are made up of random images/experiences. In making this work I try to give unrelated image and shapes reason. I don’t have any preconceive narrative. The viewer has a a similar job of ordering that I had in the making. These drawings are primarily colored pencil. I like the fact that it can’t be erased

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?

I feel pretty blessed……I feel generally that I Have good luck. ……….I usually park right in front of the business Im going to

Contact Info:

• Website: https://jamespatrickfinnegan.com
• Instagram: @wouldacre
• Facebook: James finnegan