Amy Stewart is an accomplished writer. She’s perhaps best-known for the New York Times best-seller "The Drunken Botanist," a kind of mixed-media love letter to cocktails and plants. But she’s also written 16 other books, including her most recent, "The Tree Collectors," a combination of stories and her own original watercolor paintings.
Stewart is, by any definition, a successful artist. But in a recent post on her Substack, she makes a provocative claim: “There’s No Such Thing As Talent.”
The title comes from an experience she frequently has when she’s sitting in the park with her paints or her sketchbook. People often come up to her and say, “I wish I could do what you do — I just don’t have the talent.”
As Stewart recently told The Show, people who say that are depriving themselves the pleasure of their own artistry.
