A Dozen
I have now hosted twelve exhibitions in this gallery - a bit like a dozen eggs in a carton - twelve perfect little creations in a good...
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lemonhill3
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Agent of change
Nine months ago, when I opened this gallery, my unspoken premise was that artists were people who could draw realistically.. I accepted...
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lemonhill3
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Praise
Persisting to an acceptable end point may produce a work of art....be it painting, music composition or writing. It is, of course,...
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lemonhill3
May 4, 20212 min read
Poor, good, better or best in art
This gallery maintains a belief that absolutely everyone can make a piece of art. Everyone can. Not everyone wants to. Some people live...
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lemonhill3
Apr 14, 20211 min read
Galleries
The next exhibition in Lemon Hill Gallery is the work of an extended family covering 3 generations and, potentially, 26 people. None of...
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lemonhill3
Mar 29, 20211 min read
Artistic and Social Capital
This gallery started life as a shipping container. Judging by the dents in its walls it had had a hard life! It is now on a hill top in...
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lemonhill3
Mar 19, 20211 min read
Commercial Art
This ain't no easy subject! One writer commented that fine art was solely for aesthetic and intellectual purposes whereas commercial art...
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lemonhill3
Mar 11, 20211 min read
Community Art
Most of us feel uncomfortable drawing, painting, colouring (or playing music and singing) We do not see ourselves as artists and these...
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lemonhill3
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Credentials
In a recent article an art teacher of 30 years standing expressed outrage at someone writing about art with no formal education on the...
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lemonhill3
Feb 23, 20211 min read
Skilled or Not?
Skill is the ability to do something well, especially because you have practiced it. Skill turns creativity into art. Skill can be...
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lemonhill3
Feb 17, 20212 min read
Art or not? And is it good?
It is a brave person who tries to define art! I accept anything as art that was designed to be so. The more bothering question is whether...
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lemonhill3
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Creativity?
Over these last two days I have made this bird from a scrap of left-over pinewood. I bought myself a $20 carving-tool set and a small...
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lemonhill3
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Resourcefulness
A discarded couple of pallets into a bench. No money. Just use what you have... discarded timber and a few screws ....with skill and...
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lemonhill3
Jan 26, 20211 min read
This project
My aim is to celebrate creativity - the spark or urge to make something out of nothing. Such a view of creativity covers more than the...
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lemonhill3
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Launching the web site
Today is heart in mouth stuff as I wait to see if this web site functions! Indeed, to also see whether this post actually appears on it.
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