Artist's Back to Basics

All the Rivers Run

Hello, I’ve just proved to myself how isolated and cocooned I’d become working from my home studio, often meeting but rarely engaging on a working level with other artists, or noting their approach. It seems we all have our pet likes and dislikes when it comes to art, and the way we set about painting and drawing, l only use these brushes, this type of paint and paper, sound familiar? So heading off recently to paint in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia with a group of artists I’d never met before, l became very interested in their approach, all 12 had different easels, small

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