Regular readers of this blog will be aware that it is about a week since I posted anything. There is a reason for this. Have been diverted into all kinds of distractions from art, and completely unable to focus on anything of an artistic nature. I know that this occasionally happens, but that does not make it any more tolerable. I am really fed up with the fact that I can find nothing on which to focus, and no sense of a direction in which I might move in order to make that possible. There is no shortage of activities which might command my attention, but everything points me away from painting rather than suggesting a way by which I might return to it. Things were not helped by the conversation I had today with a fellow painter, who was rejoicing in the fact t that things were going well for him.
I do wonder if the situation might be improved by my arranging one of the little “art retreats” I have enjoyed in the past, whereby I take myself off to some remote location for a week, with absolutely no distractions. It’s a thought.