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This week’s post is the result of several recent conversations on the subject of time management and how difficult it can be to incorporate your career in art, and your artistic impulses, into the rest of your life. It’s evidently a problem that many artists worry about, and getting it right (or at least finding a reasonable balance) can be the work of years, and remain an ongoing challenge.
The nature of the problem varies a little depending on whether you are a full-time artist, or whether your art is something that must fight with other work commitments. Maintaining both a job and your art can be difficult, of course, because both together can place significant stress on both your time and your energy, particularly when both are important to you and [...]
We received the photo below this morning, from one of the artists represented by Agora Gallery. Susan Marx was taking advantage of the weather and the lovely plants and flowers in bloom at this time of year, and was painting the wisteria in the Van Vleck Garden in Montlcair, New Jersey.
The Van Vleck house was built in the late 19th, early 20th century, although the style is classical, and it was blessed with a succession of Van Vlecks who shared an interest in gardening and horticulture of all sorts. The result is that, the house and grounds having been turned over to a community foundation in 1993, the public is able to visit and enjoy the results of the Van Vlecks’ labor, while non-profit organisations benefit from the use of rooms in the house.
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