Is Nudity still Titillating?

Indeed, art (and the inherent beauty of art forms) remains the most vivid example of nudity’s ability to move artistic mediums to new levels…. Admittedly, my work is not designed for shock value, it’s more a beauty and sensuality thing, but if we lose our wonder at seeing things then that can only be detrimental to art. When we are bombarded with images, we start to filter them out in our heads, if that starts to happen with nudity – will we miss out on some of the great pleasures in life?… as the filters start growing there may be more room rather than less for broader images of nudity, an opportunity to stand out from the plasticized perfect images to provide the reality that audiences crave..

Posting delays

Looking over my archives, I realize that I skip saturday and sunday quite a lot. this oten has adverse effects on my traffic and doesn’t really look good – even if it is predictable…. One of the problems of extended blogging is that posts get buried after a while, so I will be highlighting posts and looking at inspiration and stuff as well.

Winds of Change Re-dux

🙄 What a mutant I am, I made a really stupid mistake with my website update – it just goes to show what pain can do to the brain.. anyway, all fixed now. Check it out and let me know what you think! Tags: artist, gallery, website

Back I go again…

*sigh* My swelling is up so high I feel like I am lying on a hot water bottle…. I wouldn’t mind but I am already planning my next one and I have ideas pouring out of my….. I don’t know what I would do without my little sketch book, when the pain gets so bad I want to cry I pick up my book and pencil and escape for a while.

No No Nanette: No Girls in the Guggenheim?

Where The Girls Aren’t by Jerry Saltz: The programmatic exclusion of women is partly attributable to the art world’s being a self-replicating organism: It sees that the art that is shown and sold is made mainly by men, and therefore more art made by men is shown and sold. This is how the misidentification, what Adorno called a “negative system,” is perpetuated.I have been watching the trends on this with alarm, it is a true fact that women are under-represented in the art industry…. maybe we need to set aside our fears and worries about our babies and send them off to the galleries with a packed lunch, cry and then be proud that something we gave birth to is doing so well.

The Winds of Change Mark II

I’ve done some further changes to my template to make them work a little better and I definitely think I will be buying CSS editing sometime soon. Mostly however, I have started the changes for my website – my gallery is completely different, with sorting by series rather than topic. I have also done away…

The Winds of Change

It must be spring, because I feel like changing things around. My blog has undergone a new look with a clean layout and a three column template. I feel as if two long columns meant that things were getting lost so hopefully this is a bit easier to use. I would love some feedback as…

Brr! High Vibes? more like high Vibrates!

The High Vibes festival was dampened slightly which sucks but there were still quite a few people around. It was very neat, such a cool, free festival with hippies dancing in the street – pure expression everywhere and my work on display for all to see – a pretty cool feeling 🙂 It reminded me how far I am from my corporate career and how happy I am to be back in the world of art and expression and freedom…. and how I am now, truly free.It was a very cool feeling indeed.

Sculpting Sexuality

Telegraph | Entertainment | How lust shaped the art of Rodin To eyes accustomed to the conventions of beaux-arts classicism, the sculpture was shocking because it peeled off a layer of artifice to show the human body as it really is, not as his viewers expected to see it. From now on, Rodin would translate…

Opening Post Mortem

Last night was so great, the show looked fantastic, it had a great vibe. I think the main difference, for me, was that I felt much more confident in my collection. Seeing my paintings up there, the results of all my work, made me feel so good. I knew I had done my best, each…