Q: How long have you been an artist, and what was your first memory of the art process?
A: I am not sure what I should categorize myself as. Whatever I am I have been obsessed by beauty ever since infancy. I tried to create my impressions of it when I was 3 by drawing a big mural on one of the sliding screen doors in the house where I grew up in Japan with the 12 color box of crayons my grandfather had given me the day before. more » “Exclusive Interview with the Artist Kinuko Y. Craft”
Q: Tell us about your beginnings as an artist, when did you begin to draw or paint?
A: Like all children I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. However, once I began school, I started to attract attention to my work and was complimented on my talent. My first real recognition was when I was seven and won a prize from my town for a safety poster contest they sponsored. more » “Exclusive interview with Steven Kenny”
Jeremy Beswick, the owner of Studio 600, is an English artist, photographer, sculptor and designer.
Q: How long have you been painting (drawing), and what was your first memory of the art process?______ more » “Exclusive Interview with Jeremy Beswick”
Anne Bachelier is a French artist and illustrator. Below is an exclusive interview with Anne Bachelier by the Miroir Magazine.
Q: Since when have you been an artist? Tell us about your choice of media.
A: I may almost say – since I have learned to hold a pencil! Certainly, I did not feel myself like an artist yet, but I was the one in the class who was always asked for a drawing. more » “Exclusive interview with Anne Bachelier”
Symbolism remains far more felt than understood, more disquieting than soothing. In these primitive visual myths of their secret lives, animalistic figures provide a means for emotive personification, characterizing or exhibiting human motives and foibles, with external traits suggesting internal ones. – Lori Field
