experimentation – Brad Teare

acrylic/experimentation/failure/skins/success

259: Failure=Experimentation

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Brad Teare

AS I WAIT for my new studio to be completed I decided to reconfigure my old studio for painting experimentation. I removed my couch and added a set of fou...

alchemist/alchemy/experimentation

258: An Alchemist in his Apothecary

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Brad Teare

“I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I leave it to time to show what will come of it–a brilliant butterfly or maggot.” —Casp...

experimentation/improvement/learning/philosophy/practice

206: How to improve

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Brad Teare

Summer Light, 11″ x 11″, 8 block woodcut When reflecting on how to improve in the coming year we might come up with the usual ideas: practice and st...

experimentation/philosophy

197: Trials precede transformation

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Brad Teare

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy–for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves–we must die to one life before we enter another.&nb...