The traditional image of artistic creation is of the artist in their studio, working at an easel or walking around a block of material that is going to become a sculpture. Of course, this idea has some truth – there are artists who work just like that. However, it would be a mistake to imagine that this is the only way artists can work. This post is a guest post by Soco Freire, one of Agora Gallery’s talented represented artists, who often works in quite a different way. Her work will be appearing in the collective exhibition at Agora Gallery that begins at the end of November and runs through well into December. The unusual thing about her creative process is that she frequently engages in a process known as ‘live painting’ to create her lively, colorful paintings.

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