My name is Peter John DeVilliers. I'm an illustrator and artist living in Oslo,
Norway, and I'm at my studio collective called Brednarevain at the moment.
For me, working as an illustrator is something I've always wanted to do, so it's really
just to create a valid that I get paid for.
Today, Brednarevain is where I come to work every day. I do 9 to 5, sometimes 9 to 9,
depending on how much work I have, but really this is where I spend 90% of my life at the moment.
I think freedom artistically really varies between projects. I work a lot with musicians,
and I think that's some of my most favorite work to do because they respect that creative freedom.
A lot of times they may come with a vague idea or just say, go with what you feel,
and that's the reason I wanted to do art in the first place, was growing up with looking at
skateboard magazines and graphics, and that stuff was really interesting to me.
People who I respect creatively and look up to, it makes me want to really put my best foot forward
and give my best, so that's the type of stuff that really gets me going.
This just drew on here, but I actually shaped this deck by myself. I cut it out by hand
and hooked up with a guy who presses the wood, and then I just shaped it, and then I did this artwork on it.
It's like a phase, like a divine proportion or a pie.
It's like an art and science, and I mean it's been used for thousands of years,
but it's kind of an interpretation of that in a way. I mean these are all things you would see in nature.
It's not any different from that.
If you're simply recycling an idea and taking, I don't know, too many people maybe
just look at what's trendy at the moment, and they just stick it out there and call it their own.
But I think if you have a story or if you've built up something of your own,
then there is a way to be relevant in the market without thinking about what other people want.
I mean that's death as an artist, is to just not do it for yourself, but to do it for someone else.
So I think that's really important for me personally.
