WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
I’m beginning a new project inspired by The Ebb Tide, a short novel that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote together with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne in his late years. Yesterday I received a bunch of books I had ordered for my research including a biography of Stevenson by Claire Harman. As you do with biographical books...
ARTIST QUOTE: JEREMY DELLER
“Artists don’t paint these days, just as we don’t go to work on a horse.” Jeremy Deller I remember hearing this when Jeremy Deller was in the news for wining the Turner Prize and thinking that things are not quite that simple. I’ve just come across it again in Martin Gayford’s book...
ARTIST STUDIO: DAVID HOCKNEY (AGAIN)
I love this image from the 1970′s of Hockney in his Paris studio with his painting My Parents and Myself half finished. Hockney did two similar double portrait paintings of his parents around the time he came into crisis with the almost photographic realism that had made him a world famous artist. ...
ARTIST STUDIO: DAVID HOCKNEY
When people who are not artists visit my studio, the first thing I always do is apologise for the mess, and their reply is always something like: “no, please don’t apologise, I love it! It’s the way it should be…” etc. I have seen some tidy studios in my time though nothing like Hockney’s...
ARTIST QUOTE: DAVID HOCKNEY
“I’ve always complained that the trouble with a lot of modern painting is that it is not interested in the visible world. That simply means that artists must go in on themselves, and their art becomes an internal one. This is okay but it can be merely therapeutic, and then it moves out of the...
All schools should be art schools.
