One of the biggest challenges for an artist who loves to teach is to allow enough time to make one’s own art. When my painting is going full steam ahead I know that I have more to share as a teacher. I love deadlines, and so the fact that I have two shows coming up is a great motivator. Also, art-making in solitude- a situation often hard-won and a challenge to arrange- provides me with a time to allow my naturally reflective nature to achieve a tangible result. Ironically, I have gotten some of my best New York- inspired work in such far-flung places as Sri Lanka and now here in Mississippi. I am making a composite painting that will eventually have ninety rectangles that is comprised of the windows of a skyscraper view at night. I brought a couple of pastels of the view with me, “180 ML night drawing 1 and 2”.
Pamela
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