by Alan Todd | Aug 11, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
More than once I’ve described my day to non-art people and from the glazed look they adopt it leaves me in no doubt that they consider me to be eccentric, driven and absurd. As the work piles up, the only question on their minds is ‘what are you going to do...
by Alan Todd | Aug 6, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Review
There is no doubt that our lives if not governed by ritual and geared to it. Organised repetition of the same acts in the same order are part and parcel and where no ritual exists, we invent one. Some rituals are small time and domestic while others involve large...
by Alan Todd | Jul 14, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
You could describe the art of today as the product of the introspective mirror. A FB friend of mine says that in fact all art is a selfie. In some ways that is true if you remove the propogandists and those who continue to hold up a mirror to nature and even...
by Alan Todd | Jun 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Sculpture
Recently I installed two tall wooden sculptures outside a gallery against a backdrop of endless rows of grape vines. They were there for the duration of an exhibition – a matter of six weeks. They didn’t survive. Oriented east-west to emulate the ancient stone...
