Portraits are friends......

Portraiture...always a way for an artist to 'talk' to oneself when the urge for deep conversation occurs.

Portraits are friends who can speak volumes or just be quietly present...

Chewing from the dailyplateofcrazy.com

I have been thoroughly immersed in The Daily Plate of Crazy a few times lately and find it full of wonderful discussion. I reminded myself how technology has changed the way we feed our emotional need to reference ourselves as I was reading posts. The anecdotal, the anonymous and the familiar are absorbed during pensive scrolling. Is it a way of being a loner and a voice central to a conversation?

lindaswinfield.wordpress.com is a fabulous resource for artists too.

The Pandora Group: six women artists: The Pandora Group: a history

The Pandora Group: six women artists: The Pandora Group: a history

Spending my Sunday trawling for inspiration, I came across these women and their work. Inspiration indeed. Well worth an hour of your time if you are searching for some time with really good art...

Farewell

Here's to the Elegant Bohemian,
I salute you for the decision to stop blogging for an indeterminant period of time. I was a member of fb for about three months before deciding that it just wasn't for me. My decision was easy but did however, impact upon those close to me and I have to be content to be 'the last to know' many things. I wish you well and thank you for sharing your love of fashion, creativity and female focused viewpoints as you have.

I take my hat off to....

How beautiful are these guys? I love their energy and how theatrical their taste. In a life peppered with uncertainty and sorrow, they epitomise the true human spirit. Has anyone been to the French-Congo as it was known? I would love to hear from you or have a look at images of Brazzaville.

troublesome 'c - words'....

Contemplating some of my pet hates today......and selecting the ones that are what I call troublesome 'c words'.....................there are some that I chew over at times of repose.........
Conceptual art.....I am not anti conceptual...au contraire...I am an artist but please, please spare the ego-driven, self-promoting Crap of some artists who have no talent and are merely flopping out some unresolved toddler tantrum in ugly forms that waste paint, glass, stone, fabric, digital imagery, food, foam, plastic, paper and our time and energy......as we try to determine their point....etc....etc...
Colonisation....an interesting word for ethnic Cleansing or Corruption....think about how things may have panned out globally had people merely visited and communicated foreign countries without stealing and murdering.....
Commando boots....girls, girls....please.....
Crows feet....earned or not, what a Complete Catastrophy they have invoked around my eyes!
Cruelty.....I have had enough of the human condition here.....
Controversial media coverage......just give us the damn facts, you guys and leave the debates to the well-prepared debaters...
Can't....sorry, I forgot....no such word....
Cleaning.....it's Saturday....sigh....off to rid my floors of the fluff, dust, grit, grime and dirt....
So....
Which ones now, of these seemingly innocuous words beginning with the sunny letter 'c' are the Critical issues??