Artist

Farrah is a self-employed abstract artist who dedicates her art to environmental preservation. She’s painted murals all around Bristol and beyond.

Farrah is inspired by the beauty of the natural world and celebrates nature’s intricacies and balance through paintings that have a soothing energy. Check out some of her art!

Job insight

Earning: £35,000 – £50,000

Workplace: On location, Farrah can be found surrounded by paints and brushes in her art trolley, but also with a ladder and bucket of water.

She likes listening to music and dancing with her brushes as she goes with the flow of her art. Just no dancing on the ladder or cherry picker machine!

Farrah is mostly by herself when she paints but sometimes there are assistant curators and company directors around.

Farrah’s Career Path

Farrah’s top tips for your career: “Do what you love. Then you will succeed”

To get a job in Art like Farrah’s, after school you could try:

Build your skills

Green skills are your skills put into action in a Green job that helps reduce carbon emissions & protects the planet.

Want to build your creativity and listening skills to get a Green job like Farrah’s? Head to Skills Builder to start your journey!

Parent’s/Carers – you can help your young person build their skills at home.

Volunteering

To build your skills whilst giving back to the community. You can find volunteer opportunities on in local community arts projects from the Arts Officer at your local council or by checking: Creative Lives, Arts Council England, Do It, and The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

Discover your top strengths

Go to WISE “My Skills My Life” and take the personality quiz.

It’s just 15 quick questions and you can see how you match up to Farrah’s strength’s below.

Farrah’s personality strengths:

Influencer

Innovator

Explorer

Build your career

If you’re 11 years old and up, you can start to build your Career Profile on Career Pilot – explore your skills, interests and potential job options here!

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