Dear Artist, This week, after hearing from all my HSP friends and receiving confirmation from amused non-HSPs, I thought further about my Dad’s remarks on how the rates of HSPs amongst artists are much higher than the 15% tracked in…
Dear Artist, No matter what our style, medium or subject matter, our work takes its cues from nature. Nature determines our accepted norms of beauty and is the basis of our ideas of design. These aesthetic semi-laws find their source…
Dear Artist, While at a dinner party recently, I mentioned that I often find socializing overwhelming and prefer to stay home and paint. After dropping this dessert bomb, I glanced around the table and noticed the other artist present nodding.…
Dear Artist, Recently there has been a bit of excitement around the painter Esref Armagan. The 51-year-old native of Istanbul, Turkey, has been blind from birth. Researchers at Boston University and the University of Toronto have been analyzing his work,…
Dear Artist, While examining the perfectly assembled nest of a song sparrow yesterday, my hiking buddy mentioned that her daughter, studying forestry out of state, had been ruminating on the idea of painting landscapes. “Do you think I have what…
Dear Artist, “The Matthew Effect” in economics was named after the verse in Matthew in the New Testament of the Christian bible: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that…
Dear Artist, Certain thought circles are taking a new approach to the creative rut. Instead of blaming the usual villains of fear of failure and fear of success, feelings of unworthiness, lackadaisical motivation or a run-of-the mill shortage of ideas,…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Bob Whistler of Brainerd, Minnesota, wrote, “I’ve been a painter for nine years and I sign my work ‘Whistler.’ I put my full name and date on the back. James McNeill Whistler, a distant relation, signed his…
Dear Artist, Unless you’re already a senior artist and very well established, if you want to pursue a career in the arts in 2022, a CV is a necessary detail. For an artist, it’s only important to include information relevant…
Dear Artist, I’m writing this letter in the full knowledge that I may be giving totally the wrong advice. While I was still in Cuba Sonja Strausz asked, “I am having trouble writing a CV. Is there perhaps a guideline…