Deborah Palmer

Back to list Added Mar 28, 2008

Philosophy-or Not

I don't have a true philosophy about art. I love looking at it...all kinds and all styles, especially ones that I don't do myself. There's always something to learn, enjoy, admire. I make art for the challenge and the pleasure of producing something beautiful, whimsical, just pleasant in some way.

I think my favorite artist is Vincent VanGogh. I saw one of his landscapes at the Pittsburgh Museum, and I didn't want to leave the room...ever. I love the impressionists and many of the post-impressionist and modern painters. I love looking at an abstract design and not needing to see anything representational in it...just see and enjoy the design for itself and the feeling it invokes.

I think most of us have an artist somewhere inside us. We may express it through painting or sculpture, but cooking, gardening, needlework, architecture, photography and so much more are all someone's art. My thanks to everyone who helps to make, and keep, the world we have a beautiful place.