Michelle Buchanan
What's the best advice you would give a y o u n g a r t i s t o r s ome t h i n g considering a career in art? Be prepared to do things non art to pay your bills and feed yourself. Never let anyone break you down. Work hard, stay humble, be kind to people, and most of all stay honest to yourself. You could choose to be one of those really talented artists with a big ego that goes around making other people feel inferior. But that’s just the equivalent of a play ground bully, and do you really want people to meet you and remember you that way?
When you get an idea for a work or series, explain the process involved in achieving that final image. I usually sketch/write ideas in my sketchbooks. Then I start researching. At this point I get distracted and find something else I want to do. After about 5 more ideas I go back to the original. I start the painting. I get scared that I can’t create what I see in my mind so I start another painting of something completely non-related. Then I start a third painting. I realize what I’m doing. I go back to my original painting with fierce determination. I finish it. I move on to the next idea. I wish I was kidding.
What are your thought's on Damien Hirst? Who is that? He has a really great name for an artist.
Rob 2012 oil on masonite
A hundred years from now what do you hope people say when they talk about you? I hope people say “Damn, she was really compassionate.” Just like that.
As an artist, how would you define success? For myself, it’s when I complete a work and feel excited about it. Success comes in moments, a day or a week, and is not really a permanent concept for me. I have to keep working towards it, and what I perceive as successful is always in a constant state of change.
Would you say you had a time of day or night where you have more creative energy than others? I’ve always been a night/early morning kind of person. But more than anything I’m an opportunist. I work as much as I can, whenever I can. Often this means after everyone in my house has went to bed. I can work for a large chuck of time without having to stop, and I won’t feel guilty about it.
If you had the choice to have your work hanging anywhere in the world, where would it be? Just the other day I was thinking about putting some of my large paintings on trees near the road on our property. I was thinking people go to work, come home, take care of their houses/children/lawns, go to work, etc. How often do they look at art? How can they appreciate art if it’s never available in their lives? How could it change them? So to answer this question it would be somewhere unexpected. Like a homeless shelter, an auto supply store, a strip club. A place where the people that frequent there need art, but rarely see it.
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