Maybe [I am] too comfortable in [my] writers role? …and by this, not as comfortable as a (visual) artist?

Possibly. It’s weird. I know that I am good at photography/drawing/printmaking (I only wish I could do life drawing?!), and that my work does bring pleasure to people when they see it.

However my work tends to very naturalistic – less (for want of a better word) theoristic. I go round an exhibition, lets take ‘s recend 3jay show as an example – there are pieces there which I definitely like, and I get, and I kind of think, if only I thought of doing that…

I’m not sure if this is making sense – I just seem to be rambling round in circles? I wonder if my (visual) art is something that I could publish in an exhibition kind of way?

Maybe you are too comfortable in your writers role? That’s not meant to be a bad thing; but of course having an exhibition and inviting people in to see the work is quite close to publishing some writing (in very broad terms of the perceived “end-event”; the end of writing might be publishing, the end of music is an LP or gig, the end of art is an exhibition for example) and that is quite scary and happens very fast and intimately in the visual arts, whereas writing might be more of a slow-brewing process where you release little bits here and there and you can retreat for cover. Having exhibtions can be very draining in terms of explaining things and justifying them and so on.

Incidentally I believe that the end-events are not important in doing one’s creative stuff; you don’t need to be published to be a writer for example. But even though you might do more than one thing, e.g. paint and write and play music, and they might all draw from the same creative well, you probably have a practical “doing” framework and an end-event vision for each that are much more separate and require more energy/willing than you can devote.

Rather a ramble I’m afraid.