Blog | David Brett

4 ways sketchbooks can boost your art

Every now and then the well of inspiration for creating art runs a little dry. Or so it seems. Although it doesn’t feel it, this is a...

Cornelia Parker: Tate's retrospective is a blast

If one of the purposes of art is to take the commonplace, hold it against the light and show it from a different perspective, then...

How having a plan could be bad for your art

"If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." It's a great phrase, isn't it, and one that says a lot about the need to be organised in...

Painting of the month: Poetry And Motion

What it is Here's where I select one of my artworks and talk about it in a little more depth, with the aim of explaining why I'm...

Why we don't like change... and how to change that

It is true in art and it is true in life. We humans can be funny things. We get stuck in our ways and become comfortable with them. Yes,...

Art house creations, and why they won't appear at the cinema

Up to this point, my main career has been journalism and, for 27 years, I worked as a news sub-editor on the London Evening Standard. A...

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