We were having a conversation the other day in which the nature of my involvement in and commitment to art came up, when my wife admitted that she just didn’t “get it”. She was able to see that it mattered very much to me, but was at a loss to understand why it should matter … Read more
I’ve had a curious experience over the past couple of days that has set me thinking about the ways in which our tastes change as we grow older. I like to vary my reading, alternating fiction and non-fiction, and also poetry. Having had a fairly solid slab of non-fiction recently, and no clear inclination to … Read more
I have been prompted to ask myself this question by the examples of their recent work which some of my friends have put up on their facebook pages. One of them has changed his style of work completely, and has begun producing pictures which have a very sombre feel to them. As his painting is … Read more