I’ve been looking back at some of my previous posts to try and assimilate my thoughts and ideas.

In this week’s session we considered an excerpt from Art & Fear by Bayles & Orland. We discussed the gap: “…Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did…”

My earlier post,Making A Sound, referenced a comment made by Maggi Hambling:

”…there wouldn’t be much point in painting a picture that it was possible to paint…”

So, we shouldn’t mind the gap. If there is no gap, we are not pushing ourselves or allowing exploration in our work.

Art & Fear also threw up another corker. It’s from Stephen De Staebler:

“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.”

Almost there!…