Abbie Chatfield is eyeing a career as an artist.
The outspoken podcaster shared her latest opus with her fans in an Instagram Stories post on Sunday.
The 30-year-old debuted her first painting, an abstract portrait of a psychedelic slug, revealing that she has taken up art of late.
Abbie then announced that the slug was finished, and she has even launched an Instagram page for her art, called Bug Doing Art.
The page has already collected over 1000 followers just hours after being made.
In another post, Abbie revealed she is still writing her long-awaited book, but has yet again changed the subject matter.
Abbie Chatfield (pictured) is eyeing a career as an artist
Abbie has not yet explained what the new subject is going to be.
Last year, Abbie admitted that she stopped writing her first book about four years ago.
The Bachelor secured a deal to write a feminism ‘handbook’ called S**T, short for ‘So, let’s unpack that’, in 2020, but later returned the advance and it was never released.
Abbie said she ‘just couldn’t’ finish writing the book, but finally picked it back up again after a four-year hiatus.
Speaking on her It’s A Lot podcast, Abbie admitted she initially gave up on her book because she was worried her ‘basic feminist ideas’ would become ‘irrelevant’.
She explained that she was worried she would view the release as ‘outdated’ in five to ten years’ time and said she was too much of a ‘perfectionist’ with her writing.
‘I ended up giving [my book] advance back because I just couldn’t write it. There was a lot of pressure on me, from myself, to make it perfect in a first draft way,’ she shared.
‘I think my brain is programmed to want perfectionism from the moment I write it down. Previously, it was hard for me to write anything because I’d look at it from a lens of “is that the most intelligent take?”‘
The outspoken podcaster shared her latest opus with her fans in an Instagram Stories post on Sunday. The 30-year-old debuted her first painting, an abstract portrait of a psychedelic slug, revealing that she has taken up art of late
Abbie then announced that the slug was finished, and she has even launched an Instagram page for her art, called Bug Doing Art
‘This is going to be in a book, is that going to be outdated in five or ten years? I think that it probably will be outdated. It’s a book about basic feminist ideas and I think it will be, not outdated, but irrelevant.
‘My worries were that I’d say things that in ten years or five years, you’d read it and you go “yeah, like no s**t”.’
The FBoy Island host compared it to reading articles about feminism from decades earlier, saying that while the ideas were important, they are now ‘outdated’ as gender equality has taken strides forward.
‘But obviously for the moment it’s important and back then, they were important and they were revolutionary. I’m not saying my book is going to be revolutionary but I’m putting less pressure on it,’ she went on.
‘Books become outdated, [my] podcast I’m sure has moments of outdated where I listen back and go ”that was completely wrong, what the f**k was I talking about?”’
While she hasn’t secured another publishing deal for her book yet, Abbie has started writing again after a four-year hiatus and said she is putting less ‘pressure’ on herself this time around.
‘I’m approaching it with less criticism and I’m just word-vomiting and it’s going OK. I still haven’t resold the rights to it, to a publisher because I just don’t want to do the same thing again,’ she added.
Abbie described her book – which had been slated for release in July 2021 – as ‘an entry level handbook for my baby feminists’.
‘Basically, I’m going to unpack all the sexist bulls**t that exists and explain how I deconstruct certain pervasive patriarchal narratives,’ she said at the time.
In another post, Abbie revealed she is still writing her long-awaited book, but has yet again changed the subject matter
