Tag Archives: Art

Can you be an ironic existentialist?

Posted on 18 August 2017 by beckybendylegs

Over the last few hours I’ve been thinking more about this quote, which I came across yesterday. I couldn’t sleep last night and when I can’t sleep I am cursed with a brain that struggles to shut down. In my busy … Continue reading →

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Self-doubt – do all artists, all of humanity, suffer?

Posted on 17 August 2017 by beckybendylegs

If I’m an artist then this is me all of the time: torn between wanting to communicate something inside me that is exploding to come out and wanting to hibernate from the world. (But I never really know whether I … Continue reading →

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The futility of no narrative

Posted on 31 July 2017 by beckybendylegs

Just under two years ago, I wrote a dissertation for my fine art degree about whether it is possible for art to exist without narrative. I talked about still-life art and the ‘narrative turn’ in the digital age and I concluded … Continue reading →

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Is it time to do as Atticus Finch would do?

Posted on 28 July 2016 by beckybendylegs

Yesterday I read an interesting article in the Guardian (in fact, I read this in paper form) about the reaction of the contemporary art world to the Brexit vote, as debated recently on Radio 4. When it first happened, the … Continue reading →

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When process is the main artwork

Posted on 4 April 2016 by beckybendylegs

Four years ago, when I started my Foundation Degree at Shrewsbury College, I was a painter. I painted things and the sea. I also painted people when I was feeling brave. That’s all I did. I signed up for the … Continue reading →

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Why everyone should be an art student

Posted on 28 February 2016 by beckybendylegs

I’m now nearly six months into my ‘top up’ time of my Fine Art degree at Wolverhampton. I’ve started to feel like I properly belong there. I know who to ask to stretch a canvas. I know where the print … Continue reading →

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Why all artists should drink coffee

Posted on 12 July 2015 by beckybendylegs

I’ve always suspected that coffee fired my imagination. Today I found out that science and history backs up my suspicions. History has it that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia over a thousand years ago by a poetic goat-herder called Kaldi … Continue reading →

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Can you be an artist without also being a philosopher?

Posted on 15 December 2014 by beckybendylegs

I often have random thought whenever I am cycling, doing Zumba or driving along the M54. This time, a thought came to me as I was cycling home from dropping off my children at school. The thought was: do philosophy … Continue reading →

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Around the world in eighty arty farty cafes, just not this one

Posted on 15 April 2014 by beckybendylegs

Ar the moment we are on holiday in Devon. Today we visited Plymouth. And, as is fairly normal, while we were there at lunch time we needed to find somewhere to eat. ‘Somewhere that sells paninies‘ my husband suggested. We … Continue reading →

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