What would I do iff I never painted again? Would I be OK? I am addicted to painting! I’ve spent the last 25 years standing at my easel and my right hip is getting sore. If I never painted again I wouldn’t feel that I hadn’t done art, that I’d somehow let myself down. Yet,…
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Uncluttering My Sluttery!
Apparently the Victorians had a word for a room into which unwanted, unusable, needing to be mended stuff was dumped – a sluttery! I love it. Why do the useful words drop out of usage? So here’s to admitting that I have a sluttery! I am guessing most other people have a sluttery too,…
Mad!? Part 2
About a year ago I wrote a blog called Mad!? It was a rant about why artists aren’t mad, in response to being called a mad artist one too many times. Mad!? Link to blog This blog is a consideration of the fact that ‘mad’ might be a very apt term after all! …
Organising a Group Exhibition
The last few months has been filled with organising Romance of the Falls exhibition in Lanark, and I loved it! It has been a tremendous opportunity to meet other artists and locals in the community. As a self employed artist working from home it is easy to find oneself isolated. I no longer feel…
‘My Walls are Too Small!’
‘My walls are too small for a big painting!’ It’s a comment I hear a lot and it always makes me laugh. I look at the person and think, ‘What a load of rubbish, you don’t live in a hobbit hut!’ So here is my low down on why ‘my walls are too…
What a Nun Taught Me
Sister Marie Therese, an ancient French nun, was the art teacher at our convent school. She was very keen on us copying and seemed to have a large supply of chocolate boxy 1930’s style pretty pictures for us to chose from, which is odd considering her own art work. (See blog The Nun, Picasso…
The White Elephant and Treasure
The White Elephant, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm I remember as a 5 years old at a village fete being totally fascinated by something called The White Elephant Stall. Where was the white elephant? And why a white elephant? It was the best stall as it was full of interesting stuff and…
Artists Statement
As a painter my interest lies primarily in the process of painting – brush strokes, mark making, colour – the surface texture of paint, the flow of a line, the feel … However, what lies behind the feel, flow and joy of painting is something I have started blogging about this year. That is,…
Looking Through Your Eyes
The process of painting is fundamentally abstract – colour brushed onto surface. So why are artists driven to abstraction? What is the motivation? And does a painting gather energy – become real, gain a life force, by being seen by you? Does a painting actually exist if no-one looks at it? I have a…