We were lucky to catch up with Anthony Guzman recently and have shared our conversation below.

Anthony, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

My name is Anthony Guzman. I am a self-taught artist. Before I justo paint and create a poem too fast, I want to catch the emotion I was working under, rushing one project to move on to the next project out of the joy of my excitement. Now I write more presently, and I paint slower, and this way I am adding more details and depth to my work. I notice that people connect more to my work as I develop more patience and more time in the craftsmanship of my poems and paintings and everything else I do in my life. Any new project I’m working on now I create more mindfully and fully immerse myself.
The most essential skill I offer myself is studying other artists work, their techniques, and their messages. Studying other colleagues artwork is a powerful tool we seem to lose sometimes because we are always focused on our own work. The only obstacle I have faced in my art career is not having enough free time to create more amazing surrealism paintings and uplifting poetry books.

Anthony, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I work part-time as a successful and satisfied artist, but I work in my field. As I was employed full-time, I believe we have to feed our true dreams with all our attention, focus, and presence in this magical journey so we learn the lessons. I have learned to become more attached to the process and more detached from the outcome of success. Since my first memory of my creative journey began in school and at home, I spent most of my quiet time drawing and imitating the things I loved at that age. And since that day forward, I stood true to my artistic calling as every artist and genius. I had my moments of doubt and negative inner clouds, but colors my faith in God in me in art. I have stood strong to my inner child’s artistic choice, which is transpassing people’s hearts to inspire their souls, inspiring new perspectives. I create poetry books, painting, tote bags, bracelets, necklaces, and art prints from the depth of my sorrow and happiness and spiritual revelations to inspire the world to smile more and more. I don’t create to compete or be compared to any other amazing artist; I just create to satisfy my spirit, my life, my spirituality, and my family.

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

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist is that I have two, maybe three, answers for this question: there is a personal and a universal response about the reason art is super rewarding. Art unites the world and brings together the most emotional people in the community. Art has a way of solving issues but also bringing issues to light. Art is a spirit of its own that weaves together people and things from different walks of life.Art has helped me step outside of myself but also has taken me deeper into myself. See, because I create, I meditate and travel inside my spirit, which is the universe that stores poems, visions, and speeches from my ancestors, messages from the divine, through the medium of art. The world is unmuted; I speak more profoundly; I am understood and once again misjudged because art is an open discussion with no end point and an entity with no preference or ending. Art is rewarding because art is not a boring creature; art sees for the one who can’t see, and art speaks for the one who can’t speak. It is fair to the inner child in everyone that gives the spirit of art a chance to be appreciated and valued not by price point but by life form. I would not be able to breathe in life if art didn’t breathe into me the beauty and abstracting of existing in this world today.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I want every artist to know that their artworks are all  worth viewing and. We all, as creatives, have an important calling in the joy and visual dialogue in everyone who crosses our art, mind, body, and spiritual mood. that the starving artist conversation is a fake idea, a false philosophy, and  a comment made by people who are dream killers but more money-driven and don’t understand the spiritual, visual, fundamental quality and necessity of the artist and community relationship. So I have dedicated a portion of my life that I can afford to creating artworks and poems that speak about the sacredness and importance of love, the importance of experiencing oneness and acknowledging the web of life, recognizing the light of God within us all. I also create works that speak about spiritual liberation, revelation, and enlightenment. Last, I have focused on working on art pieces that are very surreal and experimental and inspirational paintings. I have painted skeletons and animals. meditative pose, magical landscape, instruments, castle, lighthouse, skin tones, fruits, food, water, earth, fire, winds, things we may and may not see every day. I believe art is my spiritual practice, and I’ll love for art to be many other creative and noncreative spiritual experiments as well.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @anthonydguzmanarts