Continuous Partial Attention
Dear Artist, The other day I was looking into the eyes of a painter as…
Yearly Archives: 2011
The blind spot
Dear Artist, At a recent soirée of old friends and colleagues there was a politician…
The mystery in art
Dear Artist, Recently, watercolorist Roderik Mayne of Toronto, Ontario wrote, “What do you mean when…
The job of art
Dear Artist, Recent research at the National University of Singapore suggests that feelings of job…
Notes on paucity
Dear Artist, I was putting the title The Red Canoe on the back of a…
Life-changing workshops
Dear Artist, As a young artist just starting out, I took a few workshops –…
Lester, Mary and Jack
Dear Artist, Three others hang out with me when I’m painting in our garden. Lester…
The wisdom of smalls
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Andrée M. Kuhne of Kingston, Ontario, Canada wrote, “My friends and I…
The tale of an island ‘desk’
Dear Artist, Somewhere out in Lake of the Woods — a lake with 14,000 islands…
Gratefulness
Dear Artist, Among our fellow presenters at our recent workshop at Hollyhock on Cortes Island…