by Alan Todd | Oct 9, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
I recently spoke to a young artist, barely out of art school, who believed that her work could alter or shape people’s thinking about animals and the environment. Looking at her work consisting of animals in fields, I wondered how she could believe it when art history...
by Alan Todd | Oct 3, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
“Ideally most of our waking time should be spent in a state of contemplative stillness or of acute focus and concentration which are respectively the passive and active faces of attention”. Christopher Allen, October 3 2020. In an article on...
by Alan Todd | Sep 14, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
Today I re-read Joan Kee’s book on Korean contemporary abstract art in the light of seeing Jonathon Kim’s work at the West Thebarton gallery and on the back page of the recent edition of Artist Profile. What struck me was the phrase ‘activating the space...
by Alan Todd | May 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 2020 I embarked on a deliberate attempt to use time as an idea. Interestingly, the whole COVID scare came to embody much of what I was thinking about in terms of slowing down time. Suddenly people had more time than they knew what to do with and the lack of daily...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I went back to my time making films as a way of understanding what I was trying to achieve. Image and spoken text in film need not relate at all. In Pulp Fiction, the two erstwhile hit men discuss hamburgers on their way to a job. While we may pay attention to what...
