Land of Heart’s Desire
Dear Artist, I’m looking toward Omey — a small island viewed from an unimportant place…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Copy rites
Dear Artist, Yesterday, friend and fellow painter Melissa Jean wrote to tell me that Chinese…
Foreground dyslexia
Dear Artist, A Florida subscriber wrote about a problem common to landscape painters: “I paint…
Love and money
Dear Artist, A subscriber who wishes to remain anonymous wrote, “Making art is something I…
Morphic fields
Dear Artist, Morphic fields, a little understood phenomenon, suggests a Jungian collective consciousness. I have…
The kitchen sink collector
Dear Artist, I took an evening ride up a canyon ridge — to where the…
Marvellous confabulation
Dear Artist, Art is a confabulation. Perhaps only with the addition of confabulation can art…
The limitations game
Dear Artist, “I am good at only two things,” said Claude Monet, “and those are…
Blue Moose
Dear Artist, Ted Harrison is well known for his colourful and childlike paintings of the…
Room with a view
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, at the…