Im pottering in the shed – I may be some time!
Blogging has been an amazingly useful tool for me over the past twelve months or so. It has enabled me to get feedback on work that would never have seen the light of day and I have made contact with some wonderful people.
Most importantly though it has let me test myself and what I think about what my art should or can be. Saying something out loud (to the world!) has meant that I have had to really think things through.
Now feels the right time though to have an intense period of making. It feels right to stop blogging during this time. I think that it fits in well with some parts of my creative process but I almost feel that I will have very little to say (even to myself!). Blogging has helped me figure out what I need to do. Now I just need to do it. So rather than struggle to write interesting things I want to go away and come back with something exciting to talk about.
So thanks to everyone who has read and commented and good luck to all of you that are working on your own creative stuff! I expect that I will be back blogging towards the end of the year and I hope to have lots of exciting new work to share. There may be updates about “the Ebony Tower” project on Chantals Blog from time to time too.
If you want to get in touch you can still find me on facebook or email me daytonadean@hotmail.com.
cheers
Dean
Oh that’s too bad! I just discovered your blog and I’m so impressed with your marvelous work.
Really well done for being accepted at the Royal Academy Summer Show. Amazing! Good luck with your ‘pottering’ and I do hope you’ll return to blogging when you’ve done what you need to do.
Sounds right. The spoken word can threaten the fragility of creative thought. Until something is fully formed the attempt to describe it can somehow damage it. Language often constrains and confines. Struggling to find the right words of expression can change the piece and make it about something else. Create then communicate. Good plan. Good luck.
thank you both ! really!
That’s a shame… but it’s good you’ve got the momentum to create lots more, and you sound like you’re enjoying it too. Just post the odd piece on here. You don’t need to write. Let your work speak for itself.
I really really understand why you have to do this Dean, but it doesn’t mean I’m happy about it! I have felt a real sense of privilege in being included in your artistic process, and have been honoured to think that our comments might have helped you on that journey.
But I get that it is not good bye forever, but just “au revoir”. So I look forward to a time when the fruits of your labours are on this blog, in galleries and in the Royal Academy, where it would appear that you belong!
I think its an excellent idea to give up the blogging for a while, so easy to be sucked into the blogging world and use up all your time and energy looking at other people’s work to the detriment of your own work. Looking at your website, I like the way your work is developing, particularly last 2 paintings, Langouria and Midnight in Bonnard’s Garden, there seem to be a sense of foreboding about them, a deeper darkness.
Thanks for the comment on my blog, Eileen’s is amazing person, very receptive to other people, unlike a lot of artists who live in ivory towers.
I will watch your progress with interest.