Small stuff
Dear Artist, Last Thursday night I opened an exhibition in our local Museum. It’s a…
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Letters to an artist
Dear Artist, In 1903, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke responded by letter to a young…
Cleaning paint brushes
Dear Artist, In my last letter Pre-Raphaelite painter John Collier recommended cleaning brushes in the palm…
Palette pointers
Dear Artist, One of the problems with talking about palettes is that those little blobs…
Off your game?
Dear Artist, On the last day of the year several collectors were in my studio.…
Transformation by art
Dear Artist, Several years ago our family took over a 16th century retreat in southern…
The uses of black
Dear Artist, A sack of email dropped down this chimney after my recent walk with…
A social phenomenon
Dear Artist, Last night Betty Piderman of Kitsilano, B.C., Canada wrote, “I was wondering about…
A walk with Renoir
Dear Artist, Not many hikers are on the Grand Randonnee in the Cevennes this time…
The other eye
Dear Artist, There are eight paintings in these two rooms. Each is two meters high…