Category: My Art
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Art Making, the Journey #4
After a few years of working without showing my work beyond a small circle of artist friends, family and neighbors, I prepared to open my studio and show my art in the annual Port Townsend Studio Tour. This was exciting and a little bit unnerving; most of us want to be liked and want our…
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Art Making, the Journey #3
Currently, as an artist, I struggle with my ambition, my sometimes inadequate knowledge and proficiency, and with increasing problems with my aging body. But these things are to be expected, to be coped with, and will be managed! Setting these issues aside, I am still have immediate questions to resolve, questions I seem to need…
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Art making, the Journey #2
As my daily work to create has become a long term practice, a habit of at least 15 years now, I have different questions and new issues with my life as an artist/maker. Firstly, what do I do with all that much loved finished work? Yes, I do still love much of it; it was…
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Art making, the Journey #1
What is art? What does it mean to be an artist? Novice artists all have to struggle with self-doubt and many such questions. Some artists continue to consider or even agonize over these and related issues throughout their “careers”. But for many artists a few years of daily work and habit will provide some answers.…
