An Emotional Approach to Painting

Cathy Locke

A Discussion with Two Artists: Jennifer Almodova – When did your perceptions of how you give value to art move to a new paradigm? Cathy Locke– I began seriously painting as a fine artist in the early 1990s. I studied with lots of people and took every workshop I could afford to go to. After about eight to ten years of painting, I began to notice that everyone’s work started to look the same to me. Of course there were variations in skill, but the work looked basically the same, one painting to the next. After several years of painting seven days a week, I came right back up against that ugly wall of technique vs. emotional quality in my work. To read more: https://musings-on-art.org/an-emotional-approach-to-painting-2/