Do neuroses or crises help artists create their best work?
Quite some time ago I read “Equus” by Peter Shaffer. It is the tale of a psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart and a 17-year old boy, Alan Strang, who blinded six horses in a small town in Suffolk, England. After reading the book, I saw the play in London. Dr. Dysart was played by Richard…
How Honeybees changed my Art or Is agriculture the only thing honeybees pollinate?
I have been painting in oils for a few decades. My artistic life in these decades wove itself around oil tubes, oil brushes, canvases. This were not pre-historic times but I did not know much about any other medium, nor was I interested. I loved oils, I knew them well. Nothing was really missing. Until…
Light in The Time of Shadows
As many of you know, my studio is in an old, defunct school and when all schools were ordered shut by the Governor, my studio fell into the same net. I was kept away for a month and was able to return last week. So instead of carving out a little space here and there…
Why can’t female artists have it all?
A seeming imbalance in our society’s biology-driven inequality in the workplace may also affect women artists. I hope, though, that this article gets the attention of male readers, employers, Human Resources officials so they can begin or continue to contemplate solutions to this problem. In the 21st Century women still deal with the difficulties inherent…
A Walk In The Park
“A Walk in the Park ” – Encaustic, Oils – 40″ x 30″ My last blog was on October 20, 2018. I was then getting ready to participate in Hidden in the Hills in November and immediately after that I moved to a new, expanded studio. So here I am, a few months later, missing our communications…
We CAN all get along!
Continuing my exploration of a variety of materials and their interaction I now arrive at “White V”. Although, as the number indicates, I have done five paintings in this style, some of the materials are the same but others make themselves known (and appreciated). I am beginning to feel like a bungie jumper: I have…
What do you do with Regrets?
“Pentimenti” is the Italian word for “regrets’. It is also used for corrections in Art. For example, an artist in the Renaissance of XVI Century had an initial drawing for a painting. Let’s say it was that of a woman with her arm raised. Then the painter changed his mind (“regretted” it) and drew her…
Pushing the (White) Envelope
A while back I introduced you to “White I” and “White II”. They depicted my experience of having a vision and wanting to use materials that were unusual for me. I did not know, then, how the vision would come to fruition and, as artists are wont to do, I just jumped feet first, eyes…