“I had to feel the world created inside me… I wanted to create a world of my own. It seemed to me that all this was possible only in painting. Perhaps this feeling, the need of my soul has been motivating me to paint since childhood!”
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Are there Limits to Human Creativity? Perspectives from Contemporary Artists
“For now we seem to be limited by our own greed/selfishness and inability to see and acknowledge what we are doing to the world. However, creativity offers us hope to change this.” – Susan Aldworth
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The Meaning of Vulnerability: Conversations with Contemporary Artists
“It is actually in these moments where one expects infallible heroism I enjoy exploring mistakes or awkwardness. By exploring these qualities in the figures I portray there’s room for me to express my own anxieties or lack of certainty.” – Rebecca Munce
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Thomas Broomé | Artist Interview Series
“When I started working on the piece it suddenly struck me that Donald Trump is constantly distorting the truth in what he says and does. I decided to mirror all text on half of the painting and as a ball of lightning I realised that in the context of my work this was a revolution. Suddenly I could create a mirrored world, a false world. From that, MirrorLand was created…”
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Alexis Rockman | Artist Interview Series
“‘Failure’ is an opportunity I hadn’t thought of yet.”
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William Grob | Artist Interview Series
“The idea of finding ourselves and losing ourselves are the same thing. The creative process is both introspective and extrospective… We sometimes need the willingness to leave the paddock and our own preconceptions of ourselves behind to see a new perspective.”
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Meicheng Chi | Artist Interview Series
“I think I became more fearless facing negative emotions because I know through drawing, they will melt into the air and become color and pencil strokes that I can hug and keep.”
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Daniel Howden | Artist Interview Series
“You really need failure to learn and kick back against. [In a world without failure] my art would be really similar, but perhaps more playful in subject, often larger, kinder to my hands and more considered. Maybe I’d live in America, too. That’s where the excess lies.”
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5 Contemporary Artists You Should Know About
A list of contemporary artists who deserve more attention, according to twin artists Nil and Karin Romano.
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Artists Share Their Most Meaningful Works
“Part of the theme of that painting is the passage of time and change within that time, so it’s particularly meaningful to me because the figure in the foreground is my mother who died fairly recently…” – Philip Harris
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Artists and Therapists Share Their Greatest Learning Curves
“I have been working as an artist for many reasons. Not all of them noble. But somehow, the pressure from the outside world made me realise the most important thing about making art for me. And that is joy.” – Wayne Horse
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Marcel Storr | Contemporary Artists You Should Know About
In this edition of repsychl’s ‘You Should Know About’ series, we introduce French outsider artist Marcel Storr. Born in Paris, Storr endured a difficult childhood after being abandoned at the age of two. Later, he was sent to Alsace to be cared for by nuns. Drawings of churches were his first artistic endeavor by 1932,…
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