John-Paul Flintoff Homepage

Welcome

How silly to set up on Substack, in 2022, when I already had a perfectly good website. (This place, here. You’re in it now.)

Flintoff.org was established in 2003. It’s spacious, much larger than it may seem from outside, contains thousands of articles, thousands of pictures, four bathrooms, a sauna, good transport links and a pleasant view etc.

Please make yourself at home.

I’m John-Paul. I’m a writer and artist. I live in London.

I work at the intersection of story, art, incl drawing and painting, and performance.

Creative self-expression is a route to insight, confidence, and transformation – for me and for others.

I help people find a voice, and make a mark.

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My approach combines classical rhetoric with theatrical improvisation, visual art with narrative, technical skill with emotional truth.

These things feed each other.

Work with me

I’ll help you discover and express your most powerful, authentic self.

The work is fundamentally the same, regardless of the specific output:

Background

Seven books, in 16 languages: fiction, illustrated poetry, memoir and non-fiction.

Worked for years as a journalist, magazine writer and editor on the Financial Times and the Sunday Times.

Trained in classical rhetoric and theatrical improvisation.

Recovered from psychiatric crisis through making art. That experience transformed my understanding of creative practice and informs everything I do.

drawing of a yellow pencil

Latest post:


Great Magnolia of Kenwood [Outstagram]

Painting of a large blossoming tree on a sloping lawn, with a figure holding a dog on a lead in foreground.
Photorealistic as always.

The great magnolia is out three weeks earlier than last year.

What do you think about that?


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