Confidence, self-belief and a painting journey to the sun
Making a painting is one of the early markers of human creativity and abstract thought.
Time proves the Ebb and flow of an Oil painting
This is a short story: the birth and life of an oil painting, which was begun twenty years ago and only just ceased to drip. In 1967 my parents and my siblings moved to the Isle of Wight to take over a boat-building business that consisted of one man building fibreglass boats in an old …
Drawing; conjuring something from nothing
drawing as… Drawing and illustration pervade our world as a vehicle for thought; on a practical level, we need it to plan, map, explain, direct, identify, warn and entertain. We are used to understanding drawings; this language seems to come naturally and there are definitely instincts towards it, however, we are also initiated from infancy …
Painting as research into imagination
Human identity The physical properties of the painted surface become a new territory with a new material/imagined sense of place. Just as there is no stopping point in the way a mind works, always connecting, expecting, evaluating, believing, so the painting is a continuation of this process. Consciousness, art and painting This process reflects some …
Visit an Art Gallery & Feel Good.
Right now, I'd like to visit an art gallery; but I can't, they're all closed. I wrote this in the depth of Lockdown, now the world is opening again.
My Mum and Creativity
Can I write about my Mum here? Aren’t I trying to be a serious artist? Isn’t my website about that. How boring, how would I exist and my pretensions pronounce themselves lalala without her. I want to say something about my mum and creativity. I am now without her. My mum passed away in possibly …
