Is the Art World Healthy?

by | Dec 5, 2018 | Featured

The overwhelming majority of people live and work outside of the art world. Art is a foreign place. Artists inhabit a largely alien environment that ordinary people occasionally hear about in the media. The art world is peopled by artists driven to create, investors...

Beautiful Faces: The Living Portrait

by | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured

It can be posited that every woman and man who wears makeup is a walking, talking piece of art. Cosmetics and beauty products are, in part, body paint, with which to adorn the face and other areas. Beautiful faces: The living portrait is a brief exploration of this...

The Physical Challenges of a Life in Art

by | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured

Many people associate artists with a cerebral approach to life because of the discursive nature of their social interactions. Art, however, demands a great physical commitment as well, as those little grey cells. The passion involved in making art is, often,...

The Gaping Maw: Climate Change

by | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured

A lot of people have asked me to describe what ’The Gaping Maw’ is all about. This is a modern phenomenon, which is impacting globally, especially in western cities and communities. The gaping maw refers to the black hole facing our civilisation in the 21C. The...

All of Life is Art

by | Dec 2, 2018 | Arts

When hunting around for a definition of Art, I return to the fact that, “all of life is Art”. Art is not any particular medium, it is more an attitude around how one lives. We all have choices in life concerning how we live our lives and what we value. Some may say...