Painting on location is a challenge. There are always interruptions and it is easy for me to forget the work at hand and wander off to inspect a new butterfly or have a discussion with a passing visitor. Sitting in the forest with a sketch or painting before me is a delightful way to spend [...]

When he was in his 20s, Picasso gave a party to honor the aged Henri Rousseau. Artists and poets with their mistresses attended and after the impromptu dinner most of Montmartre trooped into the studio. Speeches and songs were composed for the occasion, poets recited and Rousseau played his violin and sang but dropped off [...]

Why do young people, so creative as children, give up art as they grow older? Art is a form of play, the creativity of crayons and paint express the joys of childhood. At about ten years old many young people decide that the products of their creativity no longer satisfies them, it is not ‘good [...]