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Do You Want to Come Back? (part 1)

  • Posted 22nd April 2024, 11:58 pm
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Do You Want to Come Back?
(part 1)

The following is very Personal, its not what you might expect to read in an artists blog, but within it, there are some clues to why I am what I am… I have divided it up into 3 parts.

Around 2000 I heard a voice behind me, which said, "Do you want to come back?" I knew Who this was and what it involved…

I was silent for a bit, thinking of how life
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Talent or Work: More or Less

  • Posted 9th April 2024, 6:54 pm
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Talent or Work: More or Less

I read something recently that I think is true.

For some reason, perhaps a left over mindset from my younger days, I have seen that some people say (and think) that to have artistic talent (ability, skill, etc.) is a rare thing to have. Furthermore it is such an uncommon thing that one should not waste the 'talent'.

Some artists, I've heard, resent…

The Logo of Culture

  • Posted 2nd April 2024, 2:40 pm
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The Logo of Culture

"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization." –' Walter Lippmann.
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Frustration (part 2)

  • Posted 31st March 2024, 8:43 pm
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Frustration (part 2)

The following was the 2nd part of a blog post which appeared on my previous website, November 22, 2016… I am sharing it with you…
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As I was saying in part 1, when listing my artwork on eBay, I usually put a blurb in here about the painting I'm offering on eBay - but I'm just going to get a load off my mind and put that here instead
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