A day off from the blog yesterday. Today I have been in the gallery at Totnes. Its good to meet other artist, thinkers and buyers but sometimes its a bit much. They all have opinions on the work which is fantastic that they want to enter into a dialogue, but there are some mant points and ideas that steer me away from my interests. I mean the work is free and can go in many directions but the miss mash of ideas presented to me confuses my practice. I am strong and try to sift away the unhelpful points but my head is full of others ideas. I is now hard to get to the original point/idea with the same intentions, This is something I will have to work with now that I am in my own high st space.
One helpful conversation was with a buddist man called stan. It challenged my thinking on reality but enlightened my practise. I try to make marks not with a brush but throgh reactions or gravity I though it was to take mt ego out of the painting but I like these marks best as they reveala universal truth about or reality that there is so much more going on than we cn precieve. This is a summing up of the universal truths there are many that reveal infinity to us and when they do we see ourselves as part of the universe part of a whole. This is the base or core of the paintings I make to work about the times when goosebumps run over our skin because of a realisation or image. I want the msyical reactions happening all around us to inform and make the works of art. I act as a artists in order to capture and experiment with ways of comunicating them. This is one of my ways of working becuase I then like to try and understand the world around me as a know it best. Arhh am going in circles with words to discride what I work best with in images and marks.
I am struggling with oil paints at the moment I love them for there history and smell and presidgousness in art but they limit me I think to colour and form. I want to explore the universal nature of reality and I think I do this best when drawing or printing with nature as my paint box.
The oils are commercial they would sit well on a wall/home but this doesnt forfill my creative needs to push my practice forward. but they pay the bills and some of the works have been amazing in the past I find it hard to let go of the oils I dont want to stop and purhaps I shouldnt
