TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Year of the Snake
Well it’s officially The Year of The Snake, 2025, and I’m sharing my first painting of the year, titled Queen Cobra. This was painted for a group exhibition at Modern Eden Gallery with the Year of the Snake as its theme. The year 2025 means that it is the Year of the Wood Snake, marking a period of transformation, wisdom and adaptability. It is going to be a year of patience and making thoughtful decisions…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Pop Culture IS Culture
December 20, 2024 - "The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966 We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In illustration for example, breaking all the rules of the medium itself for its own sake, ends up being a bad illustration. However when you do this in "fine art" it's ART. This is a physical fact of each medium that almost entirely is what differentiates one from the other as a fact of how they are and what their goals…
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