mike tremblay

Much guidance on abstract art focuses on what I call ‘the inner game of art’, that abstraction is done through internal reflection alone. That is, though, as true as using the external world of our senses as a bridge to stimulate that inner game. If I am on the right… Read More »Liberation through abstraction

Abstraction for me is a liberation from the strictures that exist throughout our lives as lived. Many people take art classes and when looking the what they have done, feel By the end of the art class, the art ‘thing’ is done, but it isn’t quite right and like the… Read More »The violence of abstraction

Paint ‘in the moment’, simply see what would happen if…, if you did this and then that. Painting in the ‘here and now’ or ‘in the moment’ does not mean that I am being careless. I am interpreting how I feel, my mood, what I am thinking at that particular… Read More »Paint in the ‘here and now’

Creativity is neither right nor wrong; it just is. That does not mean it lacks ethical impact or is neutral is the expression of ideas. I am an advocate of Isabelle Graw’s interpretation of the painting as a type of ‘quasi-person’ (Thinking through painting: reflexivity and agency beyond the canvas,… Read More »Insight generation

You do not need to be able to draw to be creative. This is one of the great lies of art, that it begins with drawing, sketching. Many people take life classes, drawing the human form, or still life classes, bowls of fruit or a vase of flowers. But the… Read More »Can’t draw?

The EDF nuclear power station in Dungeness in Kent, UK may be an exotic place to visit, but it made for an excellent exhibition space. Myself along with other artists from Ashford Visual Artists exhibited our work over a period of months in 2017. EDF was an excellent host, and… Read More »Elemental, an exhibition