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Becky MacKeigan
based on some of my travels so far. Finding it difficult to stay in
moving on, searching, and experiencing life.
Two years after dropping out of the Nova Scotia College of Art &
Design, I helped put together an art show featuring various works by
former art school students. It was aptly named The Dropout Show,
and we showed our work to prove people can make worthy and
meaningful work without the institutional persuasion we had recieved
years prior. I have always used drawing, painting and photographing
as ways to express myself, and although I loved my time at art
school, I don't feel it is necessary in qualifying me as an "artist". I do
what I love.
The walls in my old bedroom at my parents place are still home to one
of my best permanent collections, along with comissioned murals at a
beach guest house in Edwardsville, NS. Sadly, what would have been
the oldest of my permanent collections, the wall of my 3rd grade
classroom, never quite made it past the school cleaning lady. And
then also because the school was torn down.
My true love was medium format photography but with the realization
that the cost of a decent camera, film, and a darkroom is out of my
reach, and when I compare that to "dollar store" paints and materials,
painting has just been a more realistic endeavor. Weather it's been
painting canvas, walls, or various other odds and ends it has always
been a big part of my life, job or no job. From time to time I find myself
consumed with photoshop while designing anything from brochures,
to giant banners, to cd layouts. And now I'm working on buying a
sewing machine to start some fabric art I've been imagining up! In the
meantime, I might start some smaller felt pieces sewing by hand. I've
also been able to keep up my other creative love of photography with
the instant gratification that is my digital camera.
Now with this whole new journey I've begun in tattooing I know I'm on
the right track more then ever. To find something that fits so well with
not only your lifestyle but also challenges your creativity daily is so
exciting, and I'm so appreciative that I've come across it. I go to sleep
thinking about tattoos, I wake up thinking about tattoos. It's
overwhelming in the best way possible. I plan to travel with this, and
continue learning and growing with it, meanwhile always working on
paintings and anything else that comes my way! All I've ever wanted
is to make art, be near the ocean and have some animals around me..
I don't think that's too much to ask :)
I will always continue in life experiencing and watching it through
artists' eyes, and then making it my own. It's what keeps me sane.
moving on, searching, and experiencing life.
Two years after dropping out of the Nova Scotia College of Art &
Design, I helped put together an art show featuring various works by
former art school students. It was aptly named The Dropout Show,
and we showed our work to prove people can make worthy and
meaningful work without the institutional persuasion we had recieved
years prior. I have always used drawing, painting and photographing
as ways to express myself, and although I loved my time at art
school, I don't feel it is necessary in qualifying me as an "artist". I do
what I love.
The walls in my old bedroom at my parents place are still home to one
of my best permanent collections, along with comissioned murals at a
beach guest house in Edwardsville, NS. Sadly, what would have been
the oldest of my permanent collections, the wall of my 3rd grade
classroom, never quite made it past the school cleaning lady. And
then also because the school was torn down.
My true love was medium format photography but with the realization
that the cost of a decent camera, film, and a darkroom is out of my
reach, and when I compare that to "dollar store" paints and materials,
painting has just been a more realistic endeavor. Weather it's been
painting canvas, walls, or various other odds and ends it has always
been a big part of my life, job or no job. From time to time I find myself
consumed with photoshop while designing anything from brochures,
to giant banners, to cd layouts. And now I'm working on buying a
sewing machine to start some fabric art I've been imagining up! In the
meantime, I might start some smaller felt pieces sewing by hand. I've
also been able to keep up my other creative love of photography with
the instant gratification that is my digital camera.
Now with this whole new journey I've begun in tattooing I know I'm on
the right track more then ever. To find something that fits so well with
not only your lifestyle but also challenges your creativity daily is so
exciting, and I'm so appreciative that I've come across it. I go to sleep
thinking about tattoos, I wake up thinking about tattoos. It's
overwhelming in the best way possible. I plan to travel with this, and
continue learning and growing with it, meanwhile always working on
paintings and anything else that comes my way! All I've ever wanted
is to make art, be near the ocean and have some animals around me..
I don't think that's too much to ask :)
I will always continue in life experiencing and watching it through
artists' eyes, and then making it my own. It's what keeps me sane.
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