Arts vs Crafts - and how such activities can heal your soul.
Be it the reemergence of leaves on the trees, ducklings in the pond or lambs in the field; spring is synonymous with rebirth. Every leaf that grows and every animal that is born epitomises the season and the introduction of things entirely new. So, that is why we are kicking off this month’s spring themed issue with an art form we have not yet explored, through the emotional journey of an artist who has utilised it as a continual source of healing - fibre painting.
Though, why should we explore this art form – well, if it can even be considered one at all? After all, as Vicky Ellis suggested in Issue 12 (no longer available in print but soon to be made free for subscribers to access digitally), galleries, like many art magazines, tend only to display works deemed to be ‘true art’ such as oil paintings. It is an ethos which frequently leaves our other marvellous forms of artistic creation unexplored. Yet, there is no denying that what has been presented and published over the past hundred years has changed dramatically. Indeed, from the moment Duchamp displayed a urinal in New York’s gallery in 1917, our truths surrounding art have been continually questioned.