I have been busy through the Months of Winter and now well into
Spring, I could not get enough time to post anything on my blog. But I finally sat down to write.
I had a very productive year so far painting and selling
every week and also took part in 3 Exhibitions so far this year and another one
coming up at the end of this Month.
Exhibitions! Am not sure why I partake in them! Except for
the one coming up in a couple of weeks, I don’t usually do well in them. No one does well, out of over 100 works maybe
6 -7 will sell and maybe one or two will be in the big (under a meter)
category. They are group exhibitions and
I don’t choose the venue!
I don’t like on plain-air exhibitions or in crowded little
spaces and worst of all when other people hang your work ‘to fit’ in bottom
parts, when they need eye level viewing
and worst hang bad work with no particular focal point, on prominent places because ‘it fitted better
‘.
So why do I do it? To be in touch with other artists!
It is a lonely vocation
been an artist. Even breaking for coffee
or lunch can be the end of your concentration and inspiration for the day, it can take hours
before you get back to the same level of creativity.
When I paint, I cannot
hear or see anything else but the end of my palette knife! And when I stop after working
for a few hours, only then I can see what I have been painting. This is how I create my abstract artwork, the theme is in my mind but the
execution is in my heart, my hand will
be driven by my inspiration and transfer all these feelings on the canvas.
My latest painting – Hope and Peace
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