Its the last weekend of my groups exhibition. Its gone very well up to now and the feedback has been great. We've sold everything and commisions are rolling in now. On the back of the works up I have a one man show planned for the Royal Academy and………yes by now you are realising this is all too good to be true.
SHAME!
Its a sad truth that the opposite could be said about the exhibition. OK the feedback has been good, I'd like more, but its been good. The marketing went well, but the feet and £'s have not followed. Now this was never about the selling, but it would have been nice to cover the costs. I think that, as a first show, its gone well and at least it got me off my backside and back to the coalface of producing art.
Producing ART! – now thats a loaded couple of words.
I have gone back to basics and I am now starting to buld up an idea of where I want to go. Enjoyment for me is the key, as is expression and technique. Now technique is a important factor here, as I feel that Picasso would not have been the artist he was if it had not been for his early years painting traditional oils on traditional subjects. Its a starting place for style and expression to develope.
I am beginnig to grow
Thats the most important thing for me at the moment. To grow in maturity and expression, within a chosen field or discipline. Keep the techniques and feelings that I enjoy, ditch the others. OK my landscapes are contrived, maybe dull and lack REAL expression or concept/ideas. BUT, I enjoyed doing them (well, to a degree as they can be bloody hard to do – the more detailed you get) and they are what they are, landscapes of London, set to a loose theme painted in oils in a traditional circa 1800 way.
I want to move on
The next step is to take it all further, the lessons I have learned in painting in oils, the ideas that are now coming to me thick and fast and the feeling of wanting to express myself more than ever.
Now if that last paragraph is not a good advert to why you should enjoy, be involved and exhibit your work, then you have lost the reason for art surely!
