PJ Harvey Plans to Release Paintings, Poetry and Prose
- Posted on May 18th 2011 12:30PM by Steve Baltin
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"My initial beginnings were as a visual artist, not a musician," she tells Spinner. "I was going to do a degree in sculpture at a place to go onto study sculpture, but then the path towards music opened up for me. I had an opportunity to make a record and it took me away from ever doing that."
But she has never given up her love of visual arts. "I work on paintings alongside with songs," she says, revealing it's part of her daily routine for the past 20 years. "I take my work with me. As I write every day, I draw and paint every day and it's just part of my life, so even if I am touring it comes with me. In fact, songwriting is, for me, a very visual process as well."
It wasn't until 2010 though, when she was guest designer for Francis Ford Coppola's All-Story magazine, that Harvey showcased her visual-art skills to the world. Part of the reason it took so long for her to display her talents was she only recently got up the confidence to show her work. Now that she has, fans could very well see more of her art.
"I'd like to do more because I just moved into doing oil painting as well, which I'm really enjoying and I'd like to spend more time doing that," she says. "I'm also a keen writer, not just of songs, but of poetry, short prose, short stories. I'd like to release regularly my extraneous works, drawings and writings that aren't songs, but just other things that I do."
Harvey's eight studio album, 'Let England Shake,' is available now via Vagrant and Island.
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