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
Writing
Frankenfolks can be artists too!
“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!
The Magpie Index to Assess Autonomous Creativity
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
The mind in another cave
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
How to swing the arts funding axe
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
Intelligent Life
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
The Artist as Entrepreneur
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
Medicine for Body and Soul
Art of England (issue 66, 2010) has published a short piece of mine. It is some commentary on a conference in London on arts and… Read More »Medicine for Body and Soul
The last Kodachrome
An earlier post (End of Kodachrome and a way of seeing the world) I lamented the loss of Kodachrome. Steve McCurry, the photojournalist, has shot… Read More »The last Kodachrome
Abstraction in China
I am delighted to see the further development of Sumi-e into strong abstraction. Chinese and Japanese brush painting has tended to bucolic, naturalist imagery, for… Read More »Abstraction in China