by Alan Todd | Apr 8, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Recently, an artist friend of mine chose to give me some sage advice – “if you want to sell your paintings then you need more colour”. My reply was that the paintings weren’t about colour but about ideas. He couldn’t see the distinction and nothing I could say was...
by Alan Todd | Apr 1, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In 1980 I was a teacher of art in a high school. For all of the lip service paid to subject equality, art and in fact all of the arts, were essentially a dumping ground for all of those students unable to find their niche in maths, science and English – but that’s...
by Alan Todd | Mar 25, 2022 | Art, Artist, Opinion
ALL ARTISTS LIE WHEN THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH. TRUTH AND LIE HAVE NO MEANING. How do artists perceive the world? The answer is the same way as everyone else. We all input sensory data. It’s what happens to that data that is interesting. The simplistic answer is that...
by Alan Todd | Mar 18, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
An art gallery owning friend was expressing her frustration with gallery visitors a few days ago. Many were in and out in two minutes – a quick walk around the walls and out of the door. There was no indication as to why they had visited the art gallery or what they...
by Alan Todd | Mar 11, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 2014 in New Zealand, a land where sheep outnumber human beings by a factor of more than 6:1, the Wellington seat of government, granted sentient status to all so-called lower animal forms – that is any animal that is not human – under the Animal...
