Having recently finished the work for a couple of big, long-term projects (“100 Petite Paper Paintings” and my upcoming solo exhibition, “Luminous Abstractions”), I’d been feeling a bit untethered in my art practice. I like having a goal to strive for AND I want to keep learning AND I want to make my art bigger […]
After a flurry of ‘Shuffle’ activity, a wonderful, three-week trip to Sicily and a (not so wonderful) bout of Covid (most certainly picked up on one of the flights home…), I’m finally back in the studio. And I have no idea where to start! Way back at the beginning of June, I was working to […]
Art supplies are expensive. Yet artists, especially emerging ones, need to use them up (and continually purchase more) in order to increase their skill and hone their voice. This can be tricky when painting sales are down AND one is aware that focusing on selling the work can stifle creativity and lead to ‘safe’ (read […]
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we’re not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play. When you’re curious you find lots of interesting things to do. Creativity is like fitness. The longer you’re away from it, the more difficult it […]
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Rollo May The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orson Welles When I first started painting, I thought that the […]