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Possibly my last blog before hand in. The last three years has flown by!! Looking back I have wrestled with many areas of university life. It has been the most rewarding and frustrating time of my life. I am constantly fighting a battle within myself to justify what I do. I feel pulled in many areas in the style of art I would like to create and struggle accepting my own style of painting. Writing about my art has always been the hardest thing for me to do. I struggle to articulate the feelings and emotions that are caught up in them. Of course,,,it is asking a lot of someone to be moved by a portrait of mine. They dont know that person! They dont know my relationship with that person….why should it resonate with them. Well….actually….thats not even important to the ‘artist’. Most artists work is always personal to them. Whether it resonates with the viewer is another matter. I would hope my work indicates a deeper understanding of the human condition than merely a ‘likeness’ of the person I have painted…The paintings I am putting in are the three paintings of ‘ Man in a Blue Hat’ . Old woman described as ‘Untitled’, and my portriat of Chuck Close. I am still considering as to whether my self portrait will sit well with these other works. My heart wants to put in the self-portrait..as it is me leaping into the dark….painting a work that has no reference point in reality and looks childlike. I can only wait to see how it sits with the others when the time comes next week to start thinking about hanging them. In the meantime…finishing paintings and hoping they will be dry by time of hanging.