Coney Island Artist
“Always carry a sketchbook with you”.
“Waiting for inspiration to strike is OK. Just make sure there’s a brush in your hand and you’re standing I front of a canvas when inspiration strikes”. – Robert Henri
An Artist with Letters
Rarely rarely comest thou, O Spirit of Delight – and believes in livening us up rather than dragging us down. Philosophy of letter forms or not, it matters little.
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Keeping Sculpture Light
I felt that massive great sculptures had much less sense of space than the illusion of space in a painting. And they even change very little as you walk around them.
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Taking Art to the Movies
Classics of the MGM Technicolor school include the greatest (and worst) films about an artist ever made, “Lust for Life”, based on Irving Stone’s adaptation of the Van Gogh letters.
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Artist Friends
There are many stories of artist friends throughout history. Most of them were pretty edgy by all accounts – maybe even more like rivalry than friendship. Gauguin and van Gogh argued fiercely in the famous ‘yellow house’.
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Unity in Diversity
Not a New Year’s Resolution Every year I give myself a word or two instead of a resolution. Last year it was Collaboration. And after several failed attempts at collaborating with other artists, gradually the idea entered my subconscious. Then collaborations seemed to develop more naturally. After many shared creative projects, it occurred to me…
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Towards a Collaborative Public Art
If the purpose of a sculpture is a celebration of art, then why not a celebration of all creativity?
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What is Public Art For?
If it is the creative artist who is to be the named author and the hero of his own public art, then maybe the real hero of these works is creativity itself.
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A Film Sketchbook – Part 2
I grew up on animated cartoons – my favourite was Crusader Rabbit and Rags the Tiger. I thought I wanted to be an animator, working for an animation company making cartoons. But then I went to art school and discovered painting and sculpture. No comparison. Instead of being a cog in a factory it was…
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Creative Nunhead
Artists are doing it for themselves There is this idea that art is a market, and that artists are in competition with each other, just like in any other market. But we artists are so unique, and have such diverse approaches to their work/career, that maybe it is foolish to think of us as being…
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