Art

Telling Secrets

April 13, 2010

My art practice involves too many secrets. Things I don’t want to share with anyone, things I don’t even want to admit to myself. Even bringing myself to admit that I wanted to paint in the first instance took over a year. It’s one of the greatest ironies of my existence that while anyone who knows my name can throw it into a search engine and see everything I create and share online I am incredibly guarded with people I know in (quote-unquote) ‘real life.’

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Sister Wendy: Art Changes But It Doesn’t Get Better

April 1, 2010

Sister Wendy Beckett is a bonafide nun with a considerable knowledge of and contagious enthusiasm for art. I recently had the delightful opportunity to watch her documentary, The Story Of Painting. One of the things that really struck me the first time I watched it was an early scene in which she visits some early cave paintings and muses over the nature of art.

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What Is Art Anyway?

February 25, 2010

So in short art is whatever the artist says it is, if not dealt with it is likely cause considerable harm to the artist and it is, by it’s very nature, annoying. You know this definition really works for me…

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2010: Back To Work

February 1, 2010

It’s February, which, for me, means getting back to work. (In more ways than one.) I made a conscious decision to not produce online content throughout January. Infact during January I did a number of things that were completely novel for me. I actually went on a holiday. And what really struck me when I reflect upon that holiday is how much I actually wanted to create things.

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Felicia Day: Celebrate People Not Waiting For Permission To Make Their Art

January 13, 2010
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When Felicia Day won the Streamy Award for Best Female Actor in Comedy Web Series for her work in The Guild, she wowed the audience with a frank exploration of some of the challenges the web series faced and explained how being rejected by Hollywood was the impetus she needed to create her own art.

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Do You Suffer For Your Art?

May 1, 2009

Today I start work on a new project, tentatively titled Heartbroken and Grieving. (An hour and 13 minutes have elapsed since writing the first sentence of this blog entry and the second; procrastination is a formidable opponent.) It is something I have been thinking about for months but ‘thinking’ isn’t the same as ‘doing.’ And even now that I have resolved to do it, there is still considerable resistance.

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Nina Simone: It’s Not My Problem Where It Touches Them

April 20, 2009
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As artists we can’t be responsible for how other people respond to our works.

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