by Alan Todd | Mar 25, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Every artist passes through stages in their career which can be determined by medium, influence or event/location. I am no different. However, what is interesting to me is not stages but beginnings. I can trace the origins of both specific ideas and stylistic...
by Alan Todd | Mar 8, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
There is nothing new about art being vandalised or destroyed – the ancient world is littered with the corpses of statues raised in the name of any number of potentates and pulled down by a successor. Art and politics have always marched hand in hand and...
by Alan Todd | Feb 24, 2025 | Art, Artist, Opinion
A common statement from artists is that drawing is central to their practice. Few elaborate on what they mean by drawing. On the other hand, the general population will often state that they cannot draw at all. Are they talking about the same thing? A quick...
by Alan Todd | Jan 27, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
The term ‘self-taught’ in art comes with any number of prejudices. One is the intimation that the only learning of value comes from close attention to the teachings of a professed expert or of established lessons of the past. In art is it a pejorative term and anyone...
by Alan Todd | Dec 29, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
When the internet came online in the 90s there was a wide-eyed belief about the amount of space available for data storage and operation on a personal computer and what it would take to fill it. Essentially it was seen as a limitless void. As a complete...
