Pretty Urban
#the100dayproject
February 22 – June 1, 2026
The 100 Day Project is a global art movement built around one simple idea: show up to your creative practice every day for 100 days. This year I chose to take on the personal challenge of doing it alongside a group of wonderful fellow creatives and led by the ever-encouraging Amanda Billing.
There were a few reasons why I wanted to take this on, many of them I keep close to my chest, but the main one was essentially just to see if I could finish. Could I carve out time every day to lift a brush? What would I even paint? Would I paint? How could I show up for myself as an artist after a full days work and family life and still feel like it was worth the effort.
Here is the presentation of the final collection.
Among them there were fails, there were tears, there was an early (week one!) pivot of my entire direction. There’s pieces that still sit unfinished at home and at my studio that are likely to stay that way.
At around 3 weeks in I had a happy accident. The graffiti style that I had been trying to develop into something for the last three years, collided with the way I used to paint in ink. How? I have no idea. I just did it one night.
That’s the beauty of the 100-day project. You’re forced to keep going.
Every. Single. Day.
To push through the ugly phases, the ‘i-have-no-idea’ phases, often failing, but often not. It was always progress over perfection, and keeping your ‘why’ at the forefront of your mind.
Skate Decks
Aerosol, acrylic and ink, sealed with two coats of epoxy resin.
Paper works
420mm x 594mm – aerosol, acrylic and ink.
Canvas
500×700
Aerosol, acrylic and ink.
Sealed with three coats of matte spray varnish.
This piece was a journey in itself. After finishing it, I poured a matte varnich over it to seal it. Although the indian ink is waterproof, its not varnish proof! It lifted and smeared straight away. I managed to lift all the varnish off without too much damage and repainted the parts that had been affected.
Always learning, never finished!
As I write this conclusion I am overflowing with raw emotion.
I set myself a goal, and I am genuinely surprised I’ve completed it. I have no doubt I would have given up if it wasn’t for our camino of fellow travelers cheering each other on from the sidelines and the steadfast leadership of AB.
It wasn’t until now, when I see ‘the final presentation’ of the clean shots, the collection of work as a whole, away from the chaos of laundry racks or a messy studio, I can look at it and feel proud.
Its not perfect, but it’s progress, and it’s finished.
For now.