I have a problem its that I keep coming back to why I make art works. When ever I start to think down these lines it completely ruins my creative output.
Its an important part to be critical and reflective about your parctise but this question is a killer.
I know some of the reasons and other discuss there reasons with me.I always end up questioning the end point, is it to selling is it for the sake of artor the learning that happened by going through the process. What ever it is I feel its maybe unimportant. If the work turns out to have commercial properties then so be it aslong as it isnt the starting point of the work. sometimes a one of painting I may think has no commercial value in the devon market but the work reaches out to something in someone and they see the artist value.
I am always revisitng these thoughts its about time I put them to bed.
I make images about the world around me and the specific qualities of that area. This can incompass many things and subjects such as light , time, season, geology and space.
I work best outside away from the studio where the world around me effects the painting. I have been studio based this year and spent little time outside drawing from nature. The result is a end piece that is lacking in the kind of detail that brings a place to life.
I will try to get out more and draw from life onto canvases with charcoal then make these obvservations the base of the work it is how I did it in the past before moving house so its about time I got back to the practice.
I will post tommorrow on how the drawing went outside and try to remember to photograph it
