Feel the fear and paint it
Marion Milner, a celebrated child psychoanalyst wrote of her own creative anxieties in her book On Not Being Able to Paint (Heineman, 1950, but still… Read More »Feel the fear and paint it
Marion Milner, a celebrated child psychoanalyst wrote of her own creative anxieties in her book On Not Being Able to Paint (Heineman, 1950, but still… Read More »Feel the fear and paint it
“Frankenfolks” can be artists too!” Originally published in Art of England, Issue 86, 2011. Reproduced with permission. Are older people curiosities, especially the long-lived? Do… Read More »Frankenfolks can be artists too!
What is a magpie and what has it got to do with artists? #142830176 / gettyimages.com I have posted and written about how people learn… Read More »The Magpie Index to Assess Autonomous Creativity
Another early scratching of an early human endeavouring to capture the external world has been found in Wales (2011). What was this person thinking, and… Read More »The mind in another cave
No doubt many in the arts community are concerned at rising levels of public sector austerity. For many their very existence depends on public funding… Read More »How to swing the arts funding axe
I subscribe to only one art magazine: Turps. Actually, I subscribe only to a few things anyway. I used to want to get one of… Read More »Intelligent Life
Art of England (issue 68, 2010) has published a short piece of mine. It is about the ‘grants welfare state’ and proposes that artists should… Read More »The Artist as Entrepreneur