Dear Artist, One summer we rented a home in Pont-Aven. This Brittany village is where Gauguin painted off and on between 1886 and 1890. The pension in which he held forth with Emile Bernard and Paul Serusier is now a…
Dear Artist, Music pervades the studio, the headset-phone rings from time to time, the brush proceeds. Here in the solitude of the easel-station there’s time to consider. I’m looking at hold-ups. Did you ever stop to realize how drawing holds…
Dear Artist, In looking at quotes you have to ask two questions: “Is it true?” and “Is it true for me?” You have to be careful in this quotation game. Take, for example, this quote of Claude Monet from a…
Dear Artist, Stephen Vizinczey’s seventh commandment is “Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.” I’m kind of converted. For a while I kept Bartlett’s at my elbow as I painted, flipping randomly while paint was drying,…
Dear Artist, And now for something completely different. After last weeks’ walk in the mystery of morphic fields and the remarkable letters that followed, I was left with the creepy feeling that there is nothing new under the sun. What…
Dear Artist, There was an immense amount of interest in the subject of morphic fields arising from the last letter. This little understood phenomenon suggests a Jungian collective consciousness — I have often wondered about the presence of this condition…