From my armchair I am staring at the Pilates DVD my husband bought me to help me with my back pain. I think I looked at it once over the weekend, and it's still in the player waiting for my finger to press play. Likewise I have a canvas in my studio waiting to be released from what has been it's plastic prison for the last year. With the DVD it's a simple of case of laziness. With the canvas it's a case of indecision. The dilemma is simply 'do I keep it local and paint Cappa Beach again?' Or do I paint what the galleries of Clare will expect - paintings of Clare on a wider scale? Up to now I have painted Cappa, where I live, four times - not counting the Pilot Boat at Cappa pier.
If you're an artist reading this post - you will probably have asked yourself the question: how many more times can I paint the same thing? It's a fair question, as is: do you paint what YOU want, what is in your heart and soul? Or do you paint for the market? If you are an artist whose subject matter has not changed in years, do you still feel passion for every painting and what do you do if your passion runs a little...thin? It won't tell me what I have to put on this huge canvas - for that I will have to treat the dilemma as a form of Pilates for my imagination, but where others are on their artistic journey never ceases to intrigue and educate me. Bearing in mind that a challenge always strengthens us, I will now peel myself out of this armchair and put on that DVD...ciao for now.
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