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LATEST: ARTISTS & GENERALLY CREATIVE FOLKS<br />
Photo: Tom Woods<br />
FIVE QUESTIONS FOR<br />
JIMMY WAGS<br />
1. 2.<br />
YOUR ULTIMATE ART CREATION SETUP...<br />
I would have to say on a South Pacific island, near<br />
a perfect left, crystal clear water, neverending<br />
packet of Poscas (paint pens), making enough<br />
money painting punters’ boards to live there with<br />
my family and go on annual snow trips in the off<br />
season, or the same deal, but here in Mullaway.<br />
WHAT’S YOUR GREATEST MOTIVATION WHEN<br />
IT COMES TO CREATING ART?<br />
I’ve always been creative, since a little kid...<br />
Creating art can be a lot of things for me - creative<br />
release, stress relief, anger management,<br />
meditation. Sometimes its like something’s inside<br />
you that just needs to get out through your fingers.<br />
WHO IS JIMMY?<br />
James ‘Jimmy Wags’ Waghorn<br />
was born and bred in Grafton<br />
and now lives in Mullaway,<br />
NSW. At 34, Jimmy boasts ‘a<br />
wonderful wife, super cool kid,<br />
a blue eyed dog, lazy arse cat<br />
and a thing for painting weird<br />
shit.’<br />
Jimmy grew up on a farm near<br />
a river ‘doing the sort of things<br />
you do on a farm - horses,<br />
hooning round on motos,<br />
having glove gun wars’ and<br />
would hit the beach on the<br />
weekends with the family.<br />
‘I learned to surf early, then<br />
skateboarding took over in my<br />
teens and early adult life. Now<br />
I’m living at the beach, I’m back<br />
into surfing and painting.’<br />
FIND HIS WORK<br />
Facebook: Jimmy Wags Artist<br />
Instagram: @jimmywagsart<br />
Shop: www.jimmywags.com<br />
SUMMER <strong>2016</strong> | SMORGASBOARDER 61
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