Authentic Canadian Art
A few days ago, a lovely person I happened to be chatting with asked me whether it is relaxing to make art. I explained that it is in fact quite stressful. Thinking about it now, though, I don t think I was able to explain the real reason why making art is not relaxing. There is [ ] Source
The prices on my paintings might seem high. For a painting that I am offering for $2,500 CAD, you may have seen a similarly sized painting selling elsewhere for $400 CAD. You may think that I am overcharging. In fact, I have tried to price my paintings as reasonably and fairly as possible. The difference [ ] Source
The original works of art in my shop have been created using the highest-quality materials and archival techniques. If treated gently and with care, they will literally last for centuries. Below are some suggestions to help you keep them in the same condition they were in when you first acquired them for your collection. Hang [ ] Source
Yesterday, I saw an extraordinary performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem at the National Arts Centre. Back when I lived in Princeton, a short train ride from Manhattan, I saw two performances by this ballet company. This time, in Ottawa, I was lucky enough to be able to sit in the front row. (I [ ] Source
In my previous post, I wrote about how almost everyone I meet interprets my statement that I am an artist to mean I do art as a hobby . I keep trying to pinpoint what exactly it is about this assumption that irritates me so much. Sometimes I think I shouldn t be bothered by it. I [ ] Source
People always assume that I do art as a hobby. If someone I meet in a social setting asks me what I do, and I say, I am an artist , they invariably interpret that to mean that I am retired or unemployed, that I dabble in art as a hobby, and that I am not [ ] Source
A work of art almost always looks best in person. Photographs are unable to convey the three-dimensional physicality of an artwork and incapable of representing the colours accurately. They also contain distortions that are nearly impossible to correct without introducing other distortions. I try to make the photographs of my drawings and paintings as accurate [ ] Source
Recently, I came across a YouTube video in which a person who does not make art himself but gives advice to artists was taking great pains to explain that great art does not require suffering and that artists should not feel they have to suffer to produce great art. (In case this makes no sense [ ] Source
These days, everything is about money. Entrepreneurs of all stripes have figured out that they can make a lot of money by telling people what they want to hear. In the case of art, there is more money to be made by telling people that they can make art themselves than there is by making [ ] Source
Galleries are a relatively recent phenomenon. Until the twentieth century, artists, for the most part, sold their work themselves. Artists might be members of a guild or society of artists and be bound by its rules, but when a monarch, a religious entity, or a wealthy patron commissioned a work, or when an art collector [ ] Source