Just came across a fab quote in a book, The Artist In The Office by Summer Pierre, kindly recommended by So Ha Au on the forum thread does your “job” help or hinder your art . I found the book very interesting but for this alone it was worth it. It answers my ramblings of yesterday.
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if its good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. – Andy Warhol
And here is a snap of that wonderful wall.
Thinking and doing, (and rambling)
The doing has been side lined a little lately due to illness and Easter holidays. This however means the thinking about the doing has stepped up a bit and I am not sure if this is good or bad. It has lead me to assess the (as it seems to me) eclectic nature of my work and try to look for some common threads. If I was having a solo show now and I am not just yet, what would I call it? Paintings and prints of different stuff doesn’t ring well. My sketch books tell me my interests are in pattern, texture and colour..well me and a zillion others could say that. I do feel always as I work very drawn to the edges of things I like the energy and tension of them. No conclusions yet more doing needed I think.
Out running on Sunday I ran past a wall, oh what a wonderful lichen covered wall. Like nature had painted her own art work on it for me to appreciate, wonderful jade and soft moss greens, yellows, blues and many more. I nipped back with my camera later on. So I feel more lichen paintings in the pipe line as I try to transcribe the work nature has offered me.
I am now questioning if I should post this, well the first bit makes me sound as if I don’t know what I am doing. Just making art I suppose.
