I’ve been rather busy gardening and distracted by figuring out everything to do with painting outside in a way that looks decent and will last. Also still contracting for King’s College on their natural sciences degree course, ironic, me, a person who barely scraped their maths and sciences GCSE’s working with all these professors and phd super braininy people. But apparently they still can’t do what I do, and therefore need a me. And they really can’t. Here’s the thing, I recon they could learn a lot from artists, these academics, working in their labs and research centers and fancy universities, and here’s why; artists’s are always trying new things. Proper artists, that is, not just art technitions*, who I would say would carry out the creative wishes of an artist, or make copies, that’s not creative. But a real artist, (which has zero to do with if they sell their work), is always trying new disciplines and evolving, curious of the world around them. *Now, there may be spelling mistakes in my blogs, this is so you know it’s not written by AI, but instead by someone with dsylexia who identifies as human. I am still making artworks, my illustrated maps which I’m yet to show on my website have been a particular fascination. And more recently found myself wanting to make more stained glass leaded sculptures. I’ve also recently joined a local plein air painting group who I think may finally be my people. It’s nothing to do with selling, no sodding red dots, just a group of people who meet outside to paint and draw and then regroup to appreciate each others work and have lunch. Isn’t that a nice way to experience art? It’s what I’ve been looking for a long time.
