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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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.
Latest post:
Scroll through the news, and there he is. Another headline, another outrage. A sense that the world is being bent out of shape by someone who seems to play by different rules.
What actually motivates him?
He runs on attention. He needs to be talked about. His name in every…
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