Browsing: Letters
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Friction-free selling?
Dear Artist, This morning David Sharpe wrote, “What’s your opinion on marketing directly to the public and bypassing traditional galleries? I want to buy small print ads in community newspapers and city-life magazines showing my work and pointing the readers to…
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Half price sale
Dear Artist, Yesterday Juliana McDonald of Ottawa, Canada wrote, “I have been a prolific painter over the last 7-8 years and my older work, large and small, is piling up without much hope of display or sale. I would like to invite…
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Good question
Dear Artist, Returning to the studio inbox after a weekend away, I found this machine jammed with questions regarding my last letter and video,” Forest spirit.” While I had in mind writing a letter on another subject, I thought I’d…
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Forest Spirit
Dear Artist, Last Tuesday was my birthday. I was getting ready for my day in the studio when the phone started ringing. For some reason it has become popular to sing “Happy Birthday” to people over the phone. The sentiment…
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The persistence of creativity
Dear Artist, After my last letter about art skills persisting after dementia has set in, there was another bonanza of material in this inbox. A dozen or so wrote to say that grandma can’t recognize the grandchildren — but she can…
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Paint your way out
Dear Artist, Creativity and the onset of dementia have recently prompted a great deal of study and speculation. Dr. Luis Fornazzari of the Memory Clinic at the Division of Neurology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, in a paper published…
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The straight eye
Dear Artist, Relatively few artists are able to look at the world and see clear reality. The cold truth may not achieve decorator popularity, but when savored, it’s exhilarating. Add fantasy and mystery and you have high art. Two painters…
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The real secret
Dear Artist, This morning Lorna Dockstader of Calgary, Alberta wrote, “I can’t help but wonder what your thoughts are regarding The Secret and The Law of Attraction. Do you think we receive what we think about the most?” Thanks, Lorna. While I’ve…
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Raise the roof!
Dear Artist, Now it seems that researchers at the Universities of British Columbia and Minnesota have found a relationship between creativity and the height of ceilings. Rui Zhu and Joan Meyers-Levy tested various volunteer groups in rooms of eight- and ten-foot ceilings.…