Introduction to blogging

So……here goes.

I wanted to write a little bit of an introduction to this blog, to talk a bit about me, my work and what I might want to use it for.

I have been thinking about starting an art blog for sometime now, but I feel a number of things ‘fear’ being one have held me back.

Also, the thought “will anyone even want to read it?”

If you know me you’ll know how important my art is to me, how much passion, hard work, thoughtfulness and integrity goes into in, with a quiet belief in the work and myself that says “I may be far from there yet, but I believe I’m on the right track”.

You will also know that I am some what of a worrier. I worry that not being particularly academic I will not have the skills I need to put down in words all that a certain painting means to me and that this blog will then only serve to cheapen my work.

You will probably also know that I have a slight complex about that fact that I didn’t go to university. At the time in my life when I could have gone I didn’t. I then wanted very much to work on song writing and musical things with my then boyfriend now husband. I had my first child when I was twenty-three and my second when I was twenty-six. I don’t regret a thing! I just don’t feel that at this time in my life I can go of to art school. I need to be here, being a mother and a wife.

With that, I worry about my technique and all that is not technically correct about it.

The last six years or so have felt like my learning alternative to going to art school…

I am learning, just a lot slower than I maybe would have had I have gone to uni.

That said, I would not rule it out and will go to private lessons and classes if and when I can.

Facebook has opened up a big world of art that I might not have otherwise known was out there, I learn something new everyday... and for that reason I love it.

On the other hand, it does sometimes serve to make me feel less than, for that reason I struggle with it.

I wear my heart on my sleeve; I am truthful…sometimes too truthful. If you ask me how things are I’m likely to tell you and in great detail! I’m then sure to come away feeling slightly awkward about the whole thing.

I do so much worry what others think, I know I shouldn't…this is a battle I very much want to overcome.

My aim with this blog is to have a safe place (safer than facebook) to put down a few words, thoughts and feelings about my work, maybe from time to time the odd work in progress shot too.

I hope that you’ll come back and visit.