Goodness, it’s been since December that I’ve posted anything here. What can I say? I’ve been waiting for a window of opportunity, I suppose. Was it the pre- and post-holiday stuff got the better of me? Or has it been the process of having a new studio built? By now, in mid-February, I have to …
I’ve been lucky to know, since I was about five years old, that I wanted to be an artist. Once, at about that age, I was painting in watercolor on sheets of blank paper, when a skeptical relative said with a sneer, “So, what do you think you are, an artist?” “YES, I AM!” I …
Let’s talk about “play” and the role it must have in the creative process. Often, from my students, I used to hear, “Gee, this can’t be serious stuff, this making art—I had too much fun doing it!” or “This seemed so easy to do, it must not be very meaningful.” There’s this concept that if …
Following up to my last post re: my ambivalence about utilitarian ceramics, I once again found this quotation from one of my all time favorite artists: “You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used”… “An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. …