VIDEO OF A PAINTING CREATED LAST WEEK plus other projects on the go I don’t sleep much at night as ideas keep cramming my head. I have to get up and go to the studio. If Ive been up all night like the mad professor in the lab creating monsters……you may catch me in bed during the day sleeping.

MY LATEST CHALLENGES….. No one can do everything but everyone can do something ….Sustainable Dave

THE ONE WEEK TRASH CHALLENGE
Collecting all my personal rubbish for 1 week I will make an installation from it and post here as well as send to Daves website.
Its amazing what we toss away without noticing.
To try the challenge yourself Go to Sustainable Daves website.
http://sustainabledave.squarespace.com/ THE LANDFILL PROJECT
Ive been invited to create art from a used metal hubcap and send it to Landfillart in US.
Landfillart is an international effort encompassing one-thousand-forty-one (1,041) artists to claim a piece of rusted metal garbage and create fine art.
www.landfillart.org

Indie Collective:

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!! Best Wishes for an extraordinary year ahead.

As usual an artist’s work is never done.With so many ideas and projects i want to do over the next couple of years I just hope to have enough energy and money to keep up with it.

A few thoughts came to me recently……

I like the idea of artists diversifying and crossing over into other areas with their work.I like to think the role of an artist is to leave the audience astonished,unsettled, to give something exciting , new and innovative and to experiment and not just think of art in a frame mentality.

Conceiving art as an “experience”, not just viewed at and moved on.

Over the past couple of years, quite unconsciously , my work has been moving in all directions.
I thought I was an Abstract painter only, but now, I also delve into sculpture, collage, video, photography, art publishing , design, wearable art, handmade crafts etc and the lists goes on and on.

So , as an artist, whatever you are doing at the time, that’s your art and
labeling yourself as a certain type of artist can be so restricting and doesn’t allow ideas to grow and flourish.

Working this way and keeping an open mind has allowed me as an artist, to discover new ways of self expression and move on to a more deeper level . At the same time, I feel more connected to the world past present and future.

I’m more in tune, alert.

Discovery, is exciting and stimulating for the artist. Helps the artist to progress in their work and learn new ways of looking, seeing ,doing and thinking. This can only enhance your arts practice…….

So, whatever art you do, use your “artspace” for confrontation, clash for the unexpected with a non programed response, it may lead to other things and experiment and venture into areas where you have no experience see what happens …..