Dear Artist, There are colourists and there are colourists. There are those among us whose colours are clunky and crude — and there are those whose colours are deadly, tasty, and “right on.” There are even some, like Paul Gauguin,…
Dear Artist, When Laurie Anderson was 19, she moved from Glen Ellyn, Illinois to New York City to study art history and sculpture. Early on, she made a thing called Automotive — it was a symphony played on car horns.…
Dear Artist, Psychologist Abraham Maslow has written, “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write — if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” The question for…
Dear Artist, I have a memory from my childhood of walking alone with my Dad, somewhere in Brittany. I was about eleven. We were talking about the Post-Impressionists and about waiting for the day’s end, the best painting light –…
Dear Artist, Among the phone calls that came in over the weekend was one from Peter Gough of Glen Haven, Nova Scotia. Peter is a realist painter with an evolved, spiritual outlook. While painting with Peter a few years ago,…
Dear Artist, Recently, Tish Lowe of Columbia, SC, asked, “Can you give an example of ‘a stand-alone artist’s site that is rockin”?” Thanks, Tish. Truly excellent work is the best thing for your website. If you have that, a lot…
Dear Artist, Apparently, in art, you can sell just about anything. If you had a roundish brown pad of a thing, you could sell it. It would be best to charge a lot for it. Who would pay only $1.79…
Dear Artist, A few days ago the owner of one of my less productive galleries told me she was hooking up with major art websites. She’s a lovely person whom I’ve known for years. She also told me she was…