E13: Svante: On the internal battle to find his true path as an artist

In this episode, we chat with the inspiring artist Svante.

Discovering an early passion for art, Svante's life took a different turn as he shifted his creative talents towards business. Success came quickly and with all the trappings, but it was soul destroying and through a challenging process of self-discovery, Svante found his way back to art.

Now establishing himself as a respected artist, Svante's first major exhibition runs in London on October 4th-5th.

This is a conversation about doing what you're meant to do, and the journey we sometimes have to take to get to know our truest self.

We talk about:

• His upbringing and provincial life in Leighton Buzzard
• A year studying in Italy where he fell in love with art
• How he returned to England to take the path expected of him
• How being an entrepreneur allowed him to express his creativity
• Finding significant success at a young age
• How despite the success, he knew he could not go on
• How art became his refuge
• The internal battles to understand how he was changing
• Reflections on the dialogue between his conscious and unconscious

Svante:

https://www.svante.co.uk/

@svante.art

SVANTE [In The Spaces Between] opens on Thursday 5th October 2023 at 55 Exhibition Road a few paces from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Spanning a three year period from 2020 to 2023 and featuring six pieces from the collection In The Spaces Between and six from a new series entitled Hell Is Other People, inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's insights and most notably the play No Exit, the exhibition invites you to explore the interstitial spaces where art, emotion and self intertwine.

Us:

www.linkedin.com/in/greg-vartoukian-07789a1

www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwainstein

www.boxlist.com

https://www.andrewwainstein.com/