24 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in The artist within
Let me out Quick!
You arrive at an art gallery feeling quite excited about the delights that await. It might be the opening night of a long-awaited exhibition featuring an acclaimed artist or the body of work of an emerging artist, that has been the lure.
But inside you find it hard to hide your disappointment, you were expecting something entirely different.
21 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in The artist within
Intangible
It is a question often asked in conversation, sparking a lively debate on the glorious and fuzzy subject about the definition of art. Everyone has an opinion.
Art and psychology and as a form of therapy.
Sigmund Freud theorised that the artist has an unfulfilled longing for honour, power, riches, fame or sex; he turns away from the harsh reality and transfers his feelings to a creation of fantasy.All this may be true, but can the artist not only paint and create because it gives him pleasure?
