Ok Artist friends. How small an area do you paint in. My living room,bedroom is now also my studio. Approx 10×15 including furniture. I sometimes paint on work service in kitchen which is even smaller. Approx 10×6.

What your painting creative situation.

Ps I have a lovely view of the road but glorious trees in the front garden.

Cheers

Just completed a gruelling few days in Manchester.

There was a tremendous amount of variety and talent at the show but not enough visitors to make it!

I had some fantastic interactions with a variety of people, students in particular, for which I am most greatful as it helped pass the time. I was lucky enough to sell a couple of pieces too which helped me break even. Hopefully next year will attract a bigger crowd.

With the huge number of Reality TV programs now on TV, from dancing/singing competitions, to voyeurism of Big Brother, do we think there is a place for Christians? I am looking for two answers:

Should a Christian watch these programmes “in order to witness” to those at work who discuss these programmes?
Should a Christian be part of these programmes, actually go on the TV like Gareth Gates did?

My point is, should we as artists be following the overall trends in Culture to add our viewpoin

I recently saw some new artwork that was “humourous”. The picture was a photo of a “Christian” - that is sandles and socks, untrendy cardigan, glasses and beard playing guitar with scary smile. The quote underneath was “Witnessing for the Lord.” It was funny, the smile really did make the person a “Jesus freak”. Obviously the artist was poking fun at Christians, but is clearly for a Christian market as it was addressing some of the bad stereotypes in the Christian community. The artist was a Christian.

I wonder are we in danger of declaring our art to be more than what it is i.e straight forward honest art. As opposed to a public declaration of evangelism. Surely this is something that comes from declaring the word of God ie “faith comes by hearing” the declaration of the written word of God. This we call evangelism. Perhaps our evangelism comes more from our comments about our painting than the paintings themselves. Please understand I am not decrying the artistic merit of the paintings but just wary of the danger of using them to replace the written and spoken word of God.