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Welcome,
Have you ever asked yourself where you got certain traits or skill sets from?
No not the standard brown hair or blue eyes, but the instinct that draws you towards certain inclinations, such as an affinity for gardening, making things, painting, pottery, sewing or woodwork?
Have you ever asked yourself where you got certain traits or skill sets from?
No not the standard brown hair or blue eyes, but the instinct that draws you towards certain inclinations, such as an affinity for gardening, making things, painting, pottery, sewing or woodwork?
Introduction,
This was the question that had been wandering around in my head for a while, and when I was asked to choose a project to do for my Master's Degree in Fine Art, it was an ideal question for my starting point.
Lets go back a bit, and I'll explain a few things. I have always been drawn to the arts. As a child I was never without pencils and paper, or colouring book, and if anyone was stuck for birthday or christmas gifts, colouring books, felt pens or pencils were always a good and welcomed choice. Throughout school, art was the subject where I excelled much more than the academic subjects. I was always creating things, painting, drawing and in the recent years I have ventured into the crafting arena.
Travelling Light
Reflections
Kipford, Scotland
Kipford, Scotland
Although my parents are not artist or crafters in their careers, my mother passed for the art school at the age of 11years old, but alas she was not allowed to go. However, she did her art/craft as her hobbies, or need, as she knitted, and did the odd bits of sewing. My father is able to draw plans to build things and did a great deal of DIY projects.
Clearly the link to creativity was there, but where did I get the interest from to go into the arts? Both parents were in clerical occupations, and as a family we did not go round museums or galleries, but when we did see things like artwork or sculpture and my inclination was to create my own or try to.
Horse Trough,
Moss Bank Park
Bolton.
Moss Bank Park
Bolton.
That impulse to create could not have come from the enviroment that I grew up in, for I had no interest at all to go down the clerical side of occupations, (I had to write the alphabet out in order to do any filling at my mother's office during half term break- work experience) so no, clerical was not for me.
