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Yesterday I spent the day at the French Creek estuary counting birds on my eBird app. In 2 1/2 hours we counted 18 different species of birds. In or near the water there were scores […]
As an artist I depend on writers to put into words their thoughts on some of the issues that all artists perennially grapple with. What is the point of making art? What is useful or […]
How relevant is it to e’pater les bourgeoisie anymore? The bourgeoisie have happily lapped up bold artistic experiments designed to shock them out of their complacency and have cannily turned them into marketable commodities. And […]
A. S. Byatt’s latest book of short stories, Medusa’s Ankles. is a joy to read after having waded through a slew of glib novels by young writers seeking to push the boundaries of the form […]
Authors often like to use painters as protagonists because they illustrate some of the issues and concerns that are relevant to all artists. Sometimes these works reflect the reality of life for most painters but […]
Paintings I created between 2019 – 2021 explored Neolithic art which clearly demonstrates that female fertility and the regenerative power of the earth were most sacred. I was most interested in the European Neolithic era […]
As an eco-feminist artist, I have explored gender inequality in my work for about 40 years, seeking ways to understand and communicate not only the problem but the source. The UN Regional Information Centre states: […]
From 2019-2021, my work was inspired by European Neolithic images from thousands of years ago. While many artists have been inspired by so called “primitive” artwork of either contemporary or ancient cultures, these paintings are […]
how has suspicion of any clear statement of goals, reference to any absolute principles and denial of any metaphysical basis for existence or thought become the dominant paradigm?
Academia, Art and the New Art Academy As further research into painting in the 21st Century, this blog looks at some modernist art criticism from the 1960’s & ’70’s. It briefly reviews & expands on […]
To further my ongoing research into the place of painting in the 21st Century, I have been reading modernist art criticism from the 1960’s & ’70’s. In this blog I will briefly review & expand […]
This post continues the exploration of the philosophical currents that shape current art practices, in particular, painting. A previous post, More on Painting, touched on the issue of identity, discussed in terms of “self-differing” or […]
Art as Counterbalance In a rather startling development, what could in previous years have been described as a general lack of interest in the arts appears to be blossoming into antipathy towards the arts in […]
These posts are an effort to understand how painting has become a suspect art form, freighted with assumptions of its strong & irredeemable connection to everything that was wrong with art before the post-modern revolution. […]
Richard Powers book, Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance includes an interesting section about progress and technology. Powers suggests that, as culture and its tools changed more in 30 years than in the […]
Been reading the third in a series out of the Routledge & University College Cork, called Doubt, by Richard Shiff. Though it’s a critique of critics, it has interesting ideas for me as an artist. […]