Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to William Alonso. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

William , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Have you been able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen? Was it like that from day one? If not, what were some of the major steps and milestones and do you think you could have sped up the process somehow knowing what you know now?

Historically we know that the vast majority of artists, if they wanted to make a living from art, had to move in many aspects of their profession. From commissions for patrons and potentates, to teaching art classes or writing to create documents that could well be books or artistic guides. This as some facets of the many more possible.
Today that has not changed much. An artist who wants to dedicate himself full time to art and creativity. He must first of all be a very versatile, multi-functional individual, working in different aspects of art, design and decoration.
In my case, I work as a first measure, in my plastic creation as an abstract painter and from there I develop all my other aspects of aesthetic creation.
I have been an arts teacher for more than fifteen years, developing artistic training projects in disciplines such as theater, puppets and painting.
I also develop decoration projects for commercial spaces such as restaurants and stores with different themes and customer needs.
I am currently working on a staging for theater with actors and puppets. A production in which I am putting all my effort, desire and my knowledge to develop a work that reflects my background and my career as an artist.
For all this I consider myself a lucky being since I can dedicate myself full time to doing what I like the most in life ART.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I work in different artistic disciplines with their particularities and languages. My training as a plastic artist and scenic artist allow me to develop in different fields of art, design and decoration. I have always been concerned about all the issues that involve the aesthetics and beauty of the different languages of art. That is why I have sought to train permanently.
I have studied teaching, graphic design, caricature, theater and puppetry. dramaturgy. All of them with a single purpose to delve into all aspects concerning art and mainly the image.
For this reason, my deep love for cinema, since I consider that all artistic languages are condensed in cinema and each one is more important than the other. The pleasure of watching a good movie is an experience of deep enjoyment and aesthetic delight.
The services that I provide to my clients are eminently creative, everything that has to do with space decoration, commissions for specific projects such as paintings and sculptures, caricatures, character creation is part of my services.
At the same time I work in theatrical productions, particularly puppet theater in which I develop projects of my own.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Art is a constant search for answers to the questions that we ask ourselves as artists. We permanently have concerns about artistic creation. The precise way of expressing ourselves and at the same time that we connect with the viewer through a speech awakens in him an experience of enjoyment and deep joy.
The permanent search of art is to find the mastery, the genius of what to say and how I am going to say it through an artistic product.
It is constant, disciplined work, a lot of work and focus, but above all a lot of passion for what you do and love for what you are: Artist

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

It’s a two-way job. The consumption of art has several favorable factors for our society. By creating an audience that consumes art, culture in general is enriched, since it allows artists to dedicate themselves full time to their creation and at the same time, society demands higher levels of quality and workmanship from the artist. Standards that are being established by both parties since by forming a public the artist not only wins economically since his work increases its range of value but also the market makes his work improve by entering to compete in the art business .
This phenomenon not only happens in the plastic arts market in decoration, design, advertising, etc. something similar should happen: a high consumption, educated public, competitiveness, supply and demand would generate better products, higher quality, and above all cultural richness.

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