And so the moment arrives... Martin Bullivant has entered the blogosphere! Let me interest you for a moment...! (Only a moment-I know my place in the scheme of things. After all, I'm just another crouton floating on the bouillabaisse of life, eh?)
Now I want to start with a BIG subject, which is that shed-loads of people come to my studio every day and say something really worrying. They say 'I wish could paint'.
Why is that worrying? Because most-if not all-of them can. At least to a degree miles better than they think. But they seem to have the idea that to get to be an artist you have to jump through a whole load of hoops first.
They assume I went to Art College (I didn't), started painting as a child (nope wrong again-I was 27) and that I have been doing this most if not all my life (maybe starting as apprentice to some famous person like Rembrandt, Turner or Picasso).
All this is misconceived.
