Category Archives: art

Christmas snow

By betty | Published: December 24, 2011

The bunny and the human meet together in the snow. The human asks the bunny, “What is the meaning?” The bunny quietly whispers the answer. watercolor and ink drawing, December 2009

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Conversations with Francis Bacon, revisited.

By betty | Published: December 21, 2011

I have often found myself asking, “What is the point  of making art?” The majority of it lives in a museum, a gallery, or collectors’ homes secluded from the broader public. Even when we do have access to view artwork in a public space such as a gallery or museum, the message of the work [...]

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CULTURE CLASH, or art and commercialism.

By betty | Published: June 13, 2011

For many years I embraced this world thinking I was an artist. I painted and looked forward to the day where I could only make art and live a life like Picasso or Van Gogh, however heroic or treacherous it may be. Well, a couple of years in to the real world and many slim [...]

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