Ten Tales | James Peel, Artist
— September 7, 2010 —
Filmmaker Poppy de Villeneuve asks ten creatives from London and New York to share their true selves with us
Despite childhood dreams of one day becoming a submarine commander, 37-year-old James Peel is now an artist. British by birth, he now lives in New York, and after “always wanting to work with people” is training to become a psychotherapist, having found a way to balance it with his art. Suitably, he describes himself as watchful, and sites his reading glasses as the possession he can’t live without. An interesting character and a deep thinker, he paradoxically loves and hates his family and friends. He doesn’t live by any strict rules or advice, and if he had one wish it’d be for more time. Here he discusses the “complicating” topic of love and his greatest fears.
Text By Lucia Davies
Poppy de Villeneuve is a photographer and film director. She shoots regularly for the New York Times, The Telegraph, and Vogue. Her most recent film project involved five short films set in Central Park for the New York Times. In 2010, several of her works were exhibited at Colette in Paris.
Lucia Davies is junior editor of AnOther. She has also contributed to titles that include Dazed & Confused, The Independent, It's Nice That, Nowness, Twin and Wonderland.
