This week we feature Young Professional Kenrick D. Headley Jr.
“When I was growing up as a kid I always wanted to be a fire fighter.”
This is the admission of our featured young professional for this week, Mr Kenrick D. Headly Jr.
Today, Kenrick is a design artist and is into the business of designing T-Shirts, making sign boards, doing custom designs on garments and even sneakers under the joint business with the man who discovered his then hidden talent, Mr Cletiest Mathavious.
The business operates under the name T-Shirt Genius/Cre8tive Arts. The store is located on the upper flat of SuperValu in Road Town.
Kenrick has a passion for dealing with youths and has been a positive influence in the lives of those he comes into contact with. They are in the store on a daily basis, some to do business, some just casually but for the most part they are there to be assisted in some way or the other with something academic.
During his high school years, Kenrick studied Business and Accounts, at college he studied Marine Mechanics. He had never set a pen or paint brush on paper when it came to art. “Actually I never had a passion for art and which is surprising but you know gifts happen, you realize your gifts in miraculous ways. I never ever thought I would have had a career in art,” he said.
Having had some other working experiences following his completion of college in the marine field, Kenrick recognised that he was not loving it as a career. He then began to spend some time around the business of which he is now part owner. “I used to just like seeing it, I never thought that I would actually like doing it.” Then one day he gave it a try. “I think that Cleteist was testing me to see if I could do it.” He eventually started doing pieces of designs on T-Shirts, sometimes after school and other times after work.
It was from then the passion for art grew and he realized that it was a talent that had been hidden for most of his younger life. Today he is at his best when it comes to desk top designing and art painting on garments and foot wear among others. He dedicates much of his time to working with youths his junior. He said that kids would come to him on a daily basis for assistance with their homework and other school assignments. Kenrick said he is always careful not to do their work for them but to give guidance.
In addition, when it comes to designing, some persons would come with an idea and he helps develop it and bring it to reality. Not surprising, on many occasions Kenrick finds himself playing the big brother role for a number of young men who would find it comfortable to discuss teenage issues with him, especially as it related to dealing with the natural "stuff" of “boyfriend, girlfriend” and balancing those with their academic studies. “I guide them along the right path. There are some things as teenagers you can’t run away from, they come naturally with the stages of development and I keep it real with them and give the guidance they sometimes don’t even get from parents for many reasons.”
Regarding his advice to youth, Kenrick stressed that much emphasis should be placed on the importance of a sound education as in the advancing world everything requires one to be academically qualified. Depite the world of art he dwells in now his academic pursuits now saves him money as he does not have to hire the services of anyone externally to do his accounting or to develop his business plans and such like.
That being said, Kenrick has a master plan to one day see his business blossom on a wider scale, providing large-scale custom designed T-Shirts for companies, for export, organizations and groups. He hopes to one day apply his business qualification to better market his products and see the business boom in the designing art industry.
When Kenrick is not at work you can sure to find him spending quality time with his family giving and taking the love of his 3-year-old daughter Kaeya Headley, even as they patiently awaits the birth of their second child.
The man sneaks time away also to bask in the other hobby of his, “I do dogs.” He, along with his close friend Jay Rhymer, handles dogs as a business under the name 284 Bullies. They specialise in pit bulls, some they breed for sale, some they train to take to dog shows in different countries.
“If you never heard of me or our business or if you might want to check out some of the things we do and one day tell someone else that about my story and what I do, just get the evidence for our face book page by searching for T-Shirt Genius (Cre8tive Arts.”
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25 Responses to “This week we feature Young Professional Kenrick D. Headley Jr.”
You are taken the art's to a really positive hights IM so promise you will alway have requst of something from myself & business.. Dont mind the bad vibes & talk, trust me, if i use to care about what people say, i wount be where i am today (CEO)
RESPECT.
All the best and kee it up, & keep coming up with new vibes.