Tom Sloan

A couple of weeks spent preparing for a contemporary Welsh art exhibition left me thinking differently about creativity and process, although not for the reasons I expected. At the beginning of the week, I submitted five pieces of work for the exhibition. Realistically, I am genuinely happy with three of them, which, for most artists, is probably a fairly honest and acceptable outcome. Some pieces arrive exactly as you hoped. Others never quite become what you imagined, no matter how much...

Sometimes the strongest response is not to force one more step, but to know yourself well enough to pause and then go again. Mental Health Awareness Week often encourages us to think more carefully about strength, resilience and coping. That is useful, but I sometimes wonder whether one of the most important things we can learn is much simpler than that. What if stopping is not the same as giving up? For a long time, I thought strength meant pushing through. If something mattered, you carried...

A bank holiday weekend in Tenby filled with two-stroke engines, music, fashion and analogue community. There are certain weekends where a place temporarily becomes something else entirely. Over the bank holiday weekend, Tenby filled with scooters. Not quietly either. They arrived in waves. The sound of two-stroke engines echoed through narrow streets from early morning onwards, drifting between pastel-coloured buildings and out towards the sea. At times, the town almost seemed to vibrate with...