The Blue Room - Dawn

I can't paint when I'm down. In fact, I've done little art in my lifetime through lack of motivation and energy, depression etc. It always gets done in spurts of a month or two in between years of abstention. I went to art college in the late seventies which didn’t do anything for me and I was kicked out. The teaching methods there were stupid beyond belief.

Earlier I used to work in oils but now work exclusively on the computer apart from some drawing which I did at the College of Adult Education. Now is a bad time to be a painter or draughtsman because of the prevailing fashions in art. I don't feel like doing installations to please the London set, or even the local galleries, and regard such 'art' as inferior to good visual art. You need to be foolish to please those who are foolish themselves. Chances are, however, that they will see that you have depth and then regard you as a pariah.

If you like good painting why not try the Art Renewal Centre on www.artrenewal.org which is staging something of a comeback in certain circles.

Artwork by Paul Farber