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David Bailly vs deadly hands of commercial portraitists
Figurative art is often undervalued in the art world. It is partly…
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To Paint is to Love Again Part 13: The Unknown Heroes
Everybody loves the clichéd rags-to-riches stories of people surviving hardship and poverty…
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To Paint is to Love Again Part 12: Friends and Mentors
“To work alongside another painter, a serious one, is a great privilege”,…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 11: The Healing Power of Art
Just like I don’t need an ‘inspiration’ to start painting, I don’t…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 10: Art and Insanity
For some years after graduating from art school, I had a variety…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 9: The Struggle in Art
I sometimes wonder how many users on Instagram make some kind of…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 8: Finding Inspiration
There are many questions artists are repeatedly asked. Following “What kind of…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 7: Ingres’s Violin
“What kind of art do you do?” must be one of the…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 6: Living with Paintings
When you are an artist, paintings are your children. You give birth…
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To Paint is to Love Again, Part 5: The Wonder of Colour
One of the bigger frustrations painters experience is not getting things ‘right’…