A long time ago I learned never to contradict someone complimenting my art. Whereas I am just before snatching it off the wall and hurling it toward the dumpster--or telling the person next to me that I think it stinks--someone else will say, "That is absolutely your best yet!" If I follow this with a self-deprecating remark, like, "I think it's terrible!" I have insulted the speaker's taste. More to the point, I just shot down a sale.
A wise woman once said, "If somebody resonates so deeply with a piece of your art that he will pay good money for it, take it home, and live with it the rest of his life, who cares what you think about it?" I know she was right.
I'm telling this to myself again because I'm looking at my latest effort and wondering about it....
PW
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Upon further Reflection on my Father
About Me
- Priscilla Wallace
- My first attempt to enter the world of fine art was through academic painting at the University of Texas at Austin. I learned what painting was, and, disappointingly, that I couldn’t do it. I left painting as one would leave a failed marriage. It was some years later that I approached making art through making crafts. Since then, I have come to regard fine crafts as fine art: The difference between the two exist on a theoretical level only, because a line separating them cannot be drawn—at least, not for me. In a world made of both “art” and “craft” I have found my home. My artwork seems to best be called “Crafted Paintings.” Still mindful of the principles of design, they are part collage, part mixed media painting, part constructions. They are likely to run off in any of these directions, or others, as the spirit moves them. That spirit expands most successfully when it is beautiful, whimsical, colorful, and rich. These pieces celebrate life in one aspect of it or another, and they seek to create joy in the heart of the viewer. View my art at www.artbycollage.com
Places currenly showing Priscilla's Art
- Mountain Micro Systems (828-438-9456)
- Hair and Nails Unlimited (828-433-0894)
- Valdese Heritage Arts Center (828-874-1849)
- Urban Artware (336-722-2345)
- Full Circle Arts (828-322-7545)
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