It's the NOT knowing where I'm going that directs me...

It's the NOT knowing where I'm going that directs me...

If I fix my eye on the prize, the outcome, the perfect thing in the future I'll miss out on so many possible riches along the way. And I'll get stressed into the bargain too, trying, striving and pushing to MAKE IT WORK!

​Oh that's a horrible feeling. Do you know it too?

Thankfully, one of the key ingredients of being an artist is to NOT know, to hang out in the DON'T know place and get more and more comfortable with it. I have to get lost, to not have a map, and not to plan where I'm going.

However, I do get REALLY clear about what I'm doing in the here and now. I need to have a "line of enquiry" as I like to call it. So I might have some guidelines I am working to - like in my current printmaking for example...

• looking at shapes
• how to they meet / not meet
• overlaying shapes to let new unplanned shapes appear

Notice, they are words of travel not destination.

The outcomes will take care of themselves and they will be all the richer, more unique and ultimately more interesting as a result.

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