I’ve always said to my kids that one of the greatest gifts life can offer is to find your passion.

When I left school I was fortunate enough to immediately find my passion through acting. It was through acting that I found a platform to launch other ideas.

As an actor I was never too afraid of making mistakes, I’d been acting since I was 11 years old but it wasn’t until I became a singer that self doubt kicked in. Maybe it was a lack of confidence, a lack of knowledge of the craft, maybe it was wanting to run before I walked… who knows.
I was striving to be the perfect singer. I was rarely satisfied with the results even though I was hugely successful at the time. Don’t get me wrong I loved the songs, I love being involved in music, the magic of being a pop star was a dream come true, it was just at times I felt like I was always on the catch up. I felt like I hadn’t really explored the craft, hadn’t paid my dues.

What I feared as a singer was making mistakes.

What I’ve subsequently learnt which applies as much to singing and acting as it does to drawing, is that as an artist we need to make mistakes. It’s through these mistakes that you begin to grow.

‘’Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams

The process after the spotlight :

It wasn’t until I allowed myself the air to breathe away from the craziness of the 80s /early 90s that I began to discover a completely different perspective on my creativity.
Unfortunately it was at this point that substance abuse began to take control. The one positive out of this dark period was my art.

My Art :

Using writing to compliment my drawing I began to discover a style. A style that in essence was born out of learning lines as an actor and feeling that if I could physically write the dialogue, then these lines would absorb more easily. Since I was a teenager everyone would always compliment my writing. Why waste these words when I could use these images to flower my drawings … and that’s where it all began!

For years I’ve been working away, refining, delaying, hesitating, contemplating, changing ...

Recently during lockdown and as a result of not being able to express myself onstage I’ve really accelerated my energy into finally presenting my artwork.
Now the time is right to enable these pieces to have their own existence outside of my world.

‘’A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet …” 
— Dale Carnegie

Today I dive ....


Through this website you will be able to access drawings I have produced over the past 20 years.

These pieces are very personal. These words, honest. These images are references to my past and present, these images are what inspires me.

There are plenty more images to come but I thought I’d begin with 6 drawings that were recently composed..

“Art is freedom, being able to bend things most people see as a straight line”

ENJOY.

Jason Donovan