Writings
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Authenticity, Impostor Syndrome and Creative expression
γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Know thyself) Oracle a Delphi Feeling like a fake can be a real issue with creative expression and finding success. I get this feeling of fakeness when the art seems to come too…
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Lock-down and being an artist
With the lockdown now well established I’ve been looking at how I’m coping with events. In short, it’s not too much of a problem for me. I’ve never been the one to go out a…
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You don’t have to know what you’re doing all the time
Am I doing the right thing? Am I just wasting my time?Is there something better I could be doing?Oh shiny! maybe I should be doing this instead?I don’t know where I’m going with this… I’ve had…
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Figure drawing first time
Last weekend I attended my first ever figure drawing class. Apart from landscape, figure drawing is one of the artistic skills I want to pursue and one I’m most impressed with. But it takes a lot…
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St Ives and my first foray into plein air
The paintings and sketches are just some from a recent St Ives painting short course I attended at the St Ives school of painting. I was down there for five days and the course only…
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Life is about play, and why we need more of it
What’s missing in my life? Well many things but one I can identify is time for fun. Messing about, play. Sometimes I don’t want a goal a purpose to work towards. Measure my success rate,…