by Alan Todd | Nov 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
After a century of experiment in the visual arts, the dogged landscape tradition, far from giving up the ghost, is still as strong as ever. The question remains though as to why landscape painting persists as a subject in that numbers of artists, both amateur...
by Alan Todd | Nov 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the early 70s musicians Georgie Fame and Alan Price came together to produce an album entitled the Price of Fame. For five minutes they were well known, failed to destroy any hotel rooms and made the papers for all the right reasons. The music was less than...
by Alan Todd | Nov 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In reading about the American painter Agnes Martin, I came across one of the great axioms of abstraction. Never talk about where your idea came from and if necessary, invent a past that may or may not have existed. Certainly, never admit to health problems,...
by Alan Todd | Nov 1, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
I think, as with many people, my sense of humour is specific. Some love physical comedy, some the profane, some the referential intellectual and others …well who knows. My preference has always been towards subtle black comedy but I never did get Monty Python or the...
by Alan Todd | Oct 27, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
The other day I saw a questionnaire regarding the problems that artists face. The idea was to nominate the three problems that were proving most irksome. Lack of sales, lack of respect and lack of recognition all got a guernsey and its hard not to disagree....
