tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67663428007575647792024-08-31T22:32:26.297-07:00imagineOn the road to publishing a memoir, the artist's journey.
About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-51424204257893824282013-01-15T21:54:00.000-08:002013-01-15T21:54:48.176-08:00Above the Lake. (Official).Not quite yet- death of a blogger! After such an unseemly interlude between posts (time flies with post-Mayan haste) but it has become evident that mine isn't going to be a rags to riches overnight success story (perseverance furthers advises the I Ching, although equally it suggests there is no point in entering the field if there is nothing to hunt!). Much has happened in the interim About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-76183300873809721822011-11-27T22:51:00.000-08:002011-11-29T00:11:29.558-08:00David Malouf responds and a message to Irene Goodman.Suddenly Under a Tuscan spell sounds really lame, but I still like The Artist's tale part. The problem is how to introduce Tuscany into the title, to alert the reader to the theme of the book and hopefully arouse curiosity.
I had some good news from David Malouf- firstly, he actually read the manuscript and has written back with some encouraging advice to this first time author. Amongst other About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-43466244752211056112011-11-13T17:11:00.000-08:002011-11-13T17:11:01.597-08:00Title alert! Under A Tuscan Spell. The Artist's tale.What's in the title? As an artist I'm usually pretty intuitive about finding titles for my paintings and composing them has become a part of my artistic ritual: the final flourish, the artist's statement, nailing it down in a phrase and signing off on the painting.
However, I've been finding it unusually hard to intuit the definitive title for my memoir. Yellow Ochre, Brushing About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-39013825347399667842011-10-12T16:47:00.000-07:002011-10-12T16:47:46.591-07:00A crowded market place and then some!Last year I attended a workshop in Byron Bay NSW on memoir writing with the Australian author Robert Hillman ( The Boy in the Green Suit). The subject: what makes me so interesting? Critical to know for someone writing a memoir and a question that I was hard pressed to answer when a friend unexpectedly put it to meAbout mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-46462249220361772012011-08-30T04:12:00.000-07:002011-08-30T04:12:26.960-07:00Briefest view from the top and a false start.Only a brief moment of respite, having climbed the mountain, planted my flag, exalted in my primacy and taken in the view, before heading down to join the unfamiliar fray of literary agents, publishers, writers, bloggers and sundry camp followers.
A reality check: up one mountain and lo and behold another one to climb!
Next week.
Fast forward-fast rewind; I though I'd About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-23926512678075156362011-08-23T21:16:00.000-07:002011-08-26T16:47:30.964-07:00The long road to completion-an introduction.I am an artist with no pension plan, trying not to look too far into the future because i can't afford to and anyway it would be scary. Ignorant bliss doesn't mean i'm stupid, though, but becomes a saving grace, a zen moment, stepping off into the abyss eyes skyward (like the wanderer/fool in my favourite Tarot card), which is how i started life as an artist in the first place, with a About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6766342800757564779.post-19531658517187578282011-08-21T02:01:00.000-07:002011-08-27T07:12:34.697-07:00The long road.
Flight of Faith. 1984. Oil on canvas.
First the painting now the book! Flight of Faith. A memoir of life as an artist in Tuscany.Living the dream and surviving the reality. The 20 years i lived in Tuscany before moving to Australia in 2000, form the basis of this memoir......Ian drops by the studio now and then, cradling his newborn baby girl, Paula. I sketch her fussing About mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04976405168461508812noreply@blogger.com052044 Cortona Arezzo, Italy43.280204883148357 11.98883019140623743.172336383148355 11.793275691406237 43.38807338314836 12.184384691406237