Today my daughter left Australia for a South Pacific cruise....so lucky!!!  Anyway, I will miss her as emailing from the cruise may involve massive roaming charges or whatever.  I'm not an expert.  I wish I was there!!

I was talking before about a new relationship with yourself.  As soon as you decide to think your own thoughts and matter to yourself, this new relationship with yourself with have far-reaching consequences.

That means that if you are self aware, you automatically are seen to be arrogant and self-centered,  mainly because you are making your ideas and thoughts fundamentally of premium importance- above all else.  That is because you have decided you matter.  "You will know for yourself and be exactly yourself."

I am much more at ease in my own skin now because of that decision.  And it would be my hope to have anyone else just know this wee small truism.  OK?

More later

More ART!!! #2

I have been in a meditative mood this weekend, mainly thinking about creativity and what it is.  How can a person be "more creative" if she doesn't have a good sense of of creativity is?  I don't believe it is primarily related to ideas like talent, imagination, innovation, inspiration etc.  That is not the true nature of creativity. 
 
I believe that creativity is essentially the special fruit of a person's decision to matter.

You don't climb Mt. Everest because you have a talent for climbing, or you don't lay down your life for your child because you have a talent for dying.  Neither do you paint because you have a talent for painting. 

No, you prepare yourself in a million ways to do the climb, and because of love you would sacrifice yourself for your child.  You paint for similar reasons - out of burning desire, or because it has come into your heart that painting is a profound way to make meaning.  You have decided that it, and you, matter.  You have decided to matter.

Now you enter into a particular self-relationship.  But more on that tomorrow.  I must feed the dogs.

Hello folks, today has been very wonderful.  St. Patrick's Day.  As we speak I am putting the final touches to the obligatory corned beef dinner and am so looking forward to it.

I come from a pretty big family...3 brothers and one sister.  I have just asked them to comment on the works that they have bought over the years so I can boost up my profile and thereby gain your confidence.  Isn't that a bit tricky??? No, all artists have to blow their own horns or else, who would.  I mean without having to pay them of course.  So hopefully, I will soon have true opinions from work they have owned as far back as 1995.  In one case, 1981.  But they are not the only ones who have pieces of mine.  So I am embarking on a research of my own works, just to see what has been happening - who bought what and when...etc.
 An artist such as myself, just keeps plugging on forward, with sort of an absent state of mind as to what has happened to finished works.  But I shall know in the very near future and we will all be aware.  I look forward to this.  I know I have created more than 650 works and counting, so it will be interesting to go back in my files and contact the owners of many of them.  I will let you know the results.

Anyway, must get dinner....More later....

It's difficult to write every day.  You have to be in the mood.  As with creating paintings too, mood is everything.  In the past week I have been matting paintings and wrapping them in plastic.  You can't frame them all, and many people like to do their own framing anyway.  Matching their decor and what not.  Plus I have been researching marketing and promotional ideas for artists.  There is a lot of blogs out there on this very subject.  I used to be in advertising when I was in Sydney, so I thought it would be a piece of cake to get known.  NOT!  Nothing works in the creative world like it does in the advertising world.  So back to square one.  This blog will hopefully at least get some visuals of my work out there, and in the meantime, I will keep trying to get more exposure, shows, write-ups etc, all the time creating in the background.  More Later!

Now it is the eve of St. Patrick's Day and Reno will be awash in pub crawls and over the limit folks....always fun for the cops.  I will be staying in as I have got pneumonia for God's Sake!!!!  Keeps me out of trouble anyway.  Today has been a wonderful day, I got so much done, spoke with fantastic clients and sold a painting.  Can't get much better than that for an artist.  More later.

March 9th 2012

So I've given a reason for the beginnings of just a few of my works...it will have to be an ongoing job as I have so very many works, of all styles, mediums and eras.  When I look at the body of work I have done, it amazes me indeed.  I had no idea there was so much of it.  One reason for this lack of accounting for the works is that I had some in storage for years and seemed to have just forgotten about them.  Imagine the joy when I found them all safely stored for years.  


Anyway, I'll get on with the 'beginnings'  which are a very important part of being an artist and for my clients to understand how a work came  about.  Every painting I ever sold, I was asked how I thought it up, or what gave me the idea.  So working at home on this blog, I have all the time in the world to remember the"beginnings" and to relate this on to you.


More Later