Artist's Back to Basics

Setting up your Space

Along, long time ago in the land of brown robed Christian Brothers and black and white Nuns, I lived in a world of Times Tables, Logic, English Grammar and the monotonous repetition of historical dates and facts. In this world, Art took a back seat on a very long bus. It amazes me that Artists actually emerged from this uncultured fog and I was especially amazed that some of us could even hold a pencil after being continually ruler rapped across the

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