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chadwick An Interview with Lon Levin
ARTWORK THAT TICKLES AND TWINKLES
When did you first think about art as something you wanted to do? Were you encouraged or discouraged by family, friends, teachers?
like I wouldn’t be able to make a living from drawing so tried a number of different business ideas before I felt confident enough to just concentrate on drawing.
I’ve always loved art but was initially planning to follow a career in Clinical Psychology. I studied Psychology for my first degree but realized that my passion lay in art so I enrolled on a part time Art Foundation Diploma alongside the final year of my undergraduate degree. That was a bit of a crazy year and involved a lot of all-nighters to finish deadlines for both courses but when that was done I was able to study a Masters degree in Authorial Illustration. Even after I’d obtained my MA I still felt
I was even determined to be a Chocolatier at one point and spent months and months making my own molds and hand finishing tiny chocolate characters. It was basically painting but using chocolate instead. My family have always been very supportive of my art. I’m the oldest of 4 sisters and the only one in our family with any artistic inclination so they are all easily impressed by anything creative I do. My Nan was very artistic so she helped to nurture my passion from a young age.
