As I have mentioned before in previous posts, painting – as well as everything creative – plays a very important part in my life. But in this specific case I will refer to oil painting and the process that I go through to finish a picture. Quite often, when I tell people that I paint […]
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A Room of One’s Own
In 1929 Virginia Woolf published her essay A Room of One’s Own, based on a series of lectures given at women’s colleges in England. I don’t intend to discuss the essay but I do recommend that you read it. I will only refer to the fact that Virginia Woolf believed economic independence and the possibility […]
Patience and Perseverance
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, twenty-some-odd years ago I spent most of my time painting and I believed that this was what I would do for the rest of my life. However, as a result of the twists and turns that life always has in store for us, I had to […]
On being creative
After several years I have returned to the world of manual creativity; of creating things with my hands (other than cooking and knitting, which I have previously commented on) – as opposed to creating things intellectually, a category under which I could include writing this blog. There are so many ways in which all of […]
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