An imaginative storyteller, Johnny Depp has long found freedom through art. The artist's fluent, expressive style is in the vein of the artists we recognise as Neo-Expressionists. For Depp, there has always been art. Before acting, and before music, art has always been an important outlet for his creativity. With his sketchbook as a permanent fixture in his hand, Depp is constantly sketching or visually conceptualising the world around him. His mind rejects the ordinary, challenges the accepted and oscillates between the pictorial and the lyrical, giving rise to his own multi-layered expressionistic style.