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Transition to a creative career — one week at a time.

You’ve already got what it takes.

What if your next chapter was the one you actually wanted — and you built it in 52 weeks?

I spent 30 years and 12 businesses (one of them Monstervision, the software company a global franchise acquired) learning what works and what quietly kills a creative career. Creative Path 52 is that hard-won map: the skills, the business know-how and the tools to build a creative life that earns. In 52 weeks, not 30 years.

Damian Sémonin painting at his easel on a Cornish beach with InkFox beside him Damian teaching a painting workshop at the Cornish Craft Barn

Why listen to me

I spent 30 years and 12 businesses learning what works — and what quietly kills you.

Kernoda, Akaroa Bistro, Monstervision (the software company a global franchise acquired), then I chose the creative life. Creative Path 52 is that hard-won map: so you can do in 52 weeks what took me decades, and skip the pitfalls I hit.

  • Kernoda clothing line
  • Akaroa Bistro
  • Monstervision acquired
  • 3 GoWest
  • Hygge Holidays Cornwall
  • Cornish Craft Barn four-in-one
What took me30yearsyou’ll build in52weeks
12 businesses started, run and sold across, before the studio
Built & sold a software company; a global franchise bought it
708 workshop attendances by 330 individual students
1 in 8 UK adults ever start a business. Damian has started many
A real business everything here runs on mine first, not a demo

Wherever you are on the path

Three ways in

  • Free tasters

    Sample lessons and the free framework chapters. Start building today, no card needed.

  • The Programme

    The flagship 52-week guided path: structure, accountability and tools end to end.

  • Community

    A members’ space to share work, get feedback and keep momentum with others on the path.

The rare part

How rare that path really is

Each step is rarer than the last: start a business, employ people, do it a dozen times, then walk away for the creative life.

~1 in 8start a business at allGEM UK Monitor 2024/25
~1 in 4…that employ anyonegov.uk Business Population Estimates 2025
Rarer again…a dozen times over, and one worth acquiring
Almost nobody…then walks away for the creative life
…but you can.That’s what Creative Path 52 is for.

An illustration of how the odds compound, not a single measured statistic.

CreativePath52 · The 52-Week Framework for Building a Creative Career by Damian Sémonin

Free download

The Creative Career Framework · Free Chapters

Download the first three chapters of the CreativePath52 framework: the thinking behind the 52-week methodology, what makes it different, and why career change doesn’t have to mean earning less.

Built on decades of real business experience, Lean Six Sigma, PRINCE2, and the hard-won lessons of actually doing the thing rather than just writing about it.

The community

Join a growing community of creatives building their practice, week by week

621 art-workshop places sold in 2025–26
37% of the students I've taught come back for more · more than a third
7 technical papers live and selling today
Since 2023 teaching at the Barn, week in, week out

Weekly note

Sign up for the weekly creative prompt: free, every Monday.

Workshop dates, new framework chapters, and honest writing about building a creative career. No noise.