In the Italian language conversation class I’ve been following the tutor and I have been developing an interest in the work of the Italian modernist Renato Guttuso. I’ve admired his work for some time but through her I’ve been led to a far more full appreciation of it. In our last session, this morning, between … Read more
What a difference one day makes! I had not realised the depth of the state of anxiety and uncertainty into which I had fallen in the lead up to the installation of my Green Man exhibition in Lincoln. Today it has been quite remarkable to see the energy and confidence with which I have been … Read more
I used to believe that artists proceeded by having an idea (call it inspiration if you will) and that this idea was then transferred from the brain of the artist to the surface of the work of art. I suppose that at its simplest this would have meant that artists engaged in a kind of … Read more
I’ve realised today that I have to take to heart a lesson I should have learned long ago. It is one thing to have good ideas, and quite another to realise these in finished form. I’m very much afraid that I’m in for a long hard slog if I am to make anything of the … Read more