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 | Aug 1, 2021 | Art, Artist, Opinion
Something that I have never understood, or even least, appreciated, is the insistence in education that everyone should take mathematics, five days week for the majority of their school lives. The reality is that most people never again use the mathematical processes...
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...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Over fifty years I have worked in sculpture, drawing, photography and theatre but always saw myself as a painter. In my teenage years it was all I wanted to do but firstly my school art teacher saw little in what I was doing and decried my use of colour and then in my...
