I took some photo snapshots to take into the studio with a new series of canvases. The season has changed. The composition of a classic seascape is so strong but I have no place to put it within my own mind, I’m not quite at the place I want to be…. words cannot really take this problem on, painting can, drawing could,lots of them. I used to challenge students to do 10 + drawings a day etc.. I need a taste of my own medicine.
I don’t want my husband to pay for my artistic practice, like it becomes his gift to me.. paintings have not sold recently so I have no money to re invest currently. Time to paint over some of last year? Time also to look at a second income stream from workshops and art tuition which I keep saying I will do and not getting around to… and so…
Exhibition opening was good. It was refreshing to meet the people keeping the gallery going and network with a range of artists. I have to keep this blog short so I can email the gallery regarding some possible workshops that I may lead…I wont be teaching seascape painting, but hope to lead various workshops in which I help novice artists forge a working practice, a structure to help them develop a body of work, its similar to various qualifications I taught 16-Adults back home in UK. More another time.
Art summit was worth going to as well, just to listen and be engaged in adult conversation about the Arts was really important to me. I would elucidate but I really do have to write that email before my husband gets in.
Started re reading D H Lawrence Women in Love again today, last read it when I was 17…I just finished a book of three short stories by Lawrence called the Ladybird. I am escaping in him. I love D H Lawrence.
Have a good week.
K
Kate Barton 