How it happened. I’d met Alex at the Artist Store in Katoomba as he has set up a business Cutters making quality stretchers. I was needing some canvases, he was a friendly guy, the canvases I ordered were good and we chatted. He had a request. He wanted to do interviews with artists. Would I be interested. I said yes,… Read More »Chatting with Alex in the studio
I think I feel more comfortable in the visual world than in the spoken world. Teaching gave me enough skills to be able to feel comfortable speaking ‘off the cuff’ so when it was decided a video was a good idea I thought I’d be blase enough to share it here. So, warts and all, here it is. Interested? Hit… Read More »Not easy having a chat about yourself.
I call the process I have of creating a painting as having a conversation with the canvas, a conversation in the visual language. It’s a fascinating process. And can be a frustrating, though a compulsive, process. A process of making a mark, consider it in the context of the whole and make the next mark. At all stages of the… Read More »The process of getting it done
The Bent Art Exhibition is held on the Kings birthday (which was called the Queens Birthday while she was alive) weekend and is an established annual event. How is it that Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of NSW have such an exhibition? How did this came about? The first Bent Art exhibition was 20 years ago. I know, I was… Read More »Bent Art is an annual institution
Ancient history is fascinating. I studied the subject in high school and was hooked. As I’m hooked on people’s stories of today. Their lives are quite wonderful. And I love how most times past life experiences indicate how they operate in the present. I reckon this particularly applies to artists and their practice. As it is with me and, if… Read More »Ancient history can be fascinating
And he said to me there are two types of artists Ruth, those who paint what’s in front of them and those that live life, absorb it, take it all in and then reveal it on the canvas. I asked what am I? He said you’re the second Ruth, go live life and then paint. And I did, I took… Read More »And he said …
I was thinking, life’s a funny thing. There I was thinking I’ve got myself organised. Life was gently rocking along. I’m exploring developments in my work enjoying the rhythms of creating in the studio when reality rudely steps in rearranging the deckchairs and says maybe you should sit down for awhile. Previously I had been on a roll. I had… Read More »When your world decides not to play by the rules
He makes some wonderful statements, reflects on his life as an artist, talks about mark making, use of intuition, doubt and quoted Robert Hughes ‘the greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is given to the lesser artist as a consolation prize’. He travelled and was close friends with David Attenborough. He made the comment “I know artists… Read More »Guy Warren at 100
Recently I went to a local tourist lookout up here in the Blue Mountains, a favourite place I like to go to and quietly spend time. That day I took my IPad Pro and pencil, sat in a quiet spot away from the tourists and drew. What the procreate app allows is that each mark is saved/collected and can be… Read More »Drawing amongst the tourists at Lincoln’s Rock
I’ve been missing. I haven’t gone, I’ve been here painting. Really enjoying myself actually. Having a lovely time grabbing canvases and putting them on the studio wall and having a conversation with them one by one to create a collection of paintings. I have done 10 paintings in all. Most large, that is 120cm x 100cm or 100cm x 90cm… Read More »Enjoying painting so much I neglected my webpage .. or maybe just slack
