We asked some of the city’s leading artists and creatives to tell us about how they decided to pursue an artistic or creative career. We’ve shared some highlights below.

Destiny’s Fantasy | Drag Queen Artist

As a creative individual in this world as we know it, expressing my artistic side was always important to me. I’m the kind that makes my career out of having fun while I work. Read more>>

Alice Coutet | Artist

I love the whole process of creating artwork, from sketching an idea, seeing it come to life, and then viewing and sharing the completed artwork. It’s the only space in life where there are no rules and you’re free to create whatever you want. Sheilagh Head, a fellow Bermudian artist, once said to me ‘Alice, paint whatever you want, you’re the artist. There is freedom in art!’ Read more>>

Stephanie Rose | Amazon Top 60 Contemporary Romance Author

It started out as more of a bucket list type of thing. All throughout school and at every job I’ve had, I was complimented on my writing skills and was always an avid reader. When I was a book blogger, a friend of mine suggested I start writing something, and one night I thought what the heck and wrote a scene that was simmering in my head. From that day on, now at seventeen completed books, I haven’t stopped. I remember telling someone I finally get that saying if you find something you love to do, you’ll never work a day in your life. While I still have to keep a day job, writing, even when it gets really difficult, is my greatest joy. When I wrote Always You in 2015, I remember telling a friend, this actually feels like what I was meant to do. Read more>>

Justin Moultrie | Visual Artist

My pursuit of the arts feels like a birthright. As a child , I would watch my mother paint and draw for hours, while I would try and copy her line work in a notebook. That would later develop into drawing in my notebooks at school and using her paints when she wasn’t home. Art eventually was the only path I could see myself going towards. The pursuit of art feels like a gift I have been given from my parent that allows me to express my fullest self. Read more>>

Zelmira Rizo | Artist

For most of my life I did not think I would pursue art professionally. Although I constantly found myself drawing on anything I could get my hands on, and had other pointers along the way, I grew up viewing art as merely a hobby, after-school activity, or after-thought in comparison to more “serious” and “important” academic and professional endeavors. I thankfully broke out of this extremely limiting view and, through the arts, opened up into a world of expanded experiences, possibilities and incredible people. Read more>>