It’s fairly common to hear artists complain that their field isn’t the most vocational in the world, but it is possible to pursue opportunities that will earn you money alongside the time you devote to your chosen disciplines. People will pay good money for tuition in the form of art classes or groups, so it [...]
Being a 26-year-old in Paris is a pretty demoralising experience (or as demoralising as it can be in such a wonderful and varied city). The chief cause of distress for people of this unfortunate age is that there’s suddenly a lot you can’t do for free anymore. Art is one of them. Young people under [...]
Finding work by your favourite artists can be something of a tricky prospect purely because it is usually distributed around the world rather thinly. Of course, if you are a fan of Impressionism then you can gorge yourself on the work of Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and Manet at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. Equally, [...]
Only a few artists from the past three or four decades actually enjoy a wide following – often because the world of modern art has become so abstract and unfriendly as to inspire a general attitude of indifference and even anger. Ordinarily, I am keen to defend modern art because of its focus on the [...]
