Emma Plunkett's Art Gallery

Another starting point is a vision or idea, embodying ideas, making them come to life. We can stick obsessively to an ideal or we can observe that it is just a starting point to lead us onwards in developing our train of thought. Knowing when to go with the flow or keep on the track, is all part of the creative decision making process. If things are not happening as easily as we predicted, we can take a step back and look from a distance to get a bigger picture, look at it through a mirror to create more distance or even leave it for a bit of time and come back later and look at it again. (more…)

Inspiration can come from anywhere, a thought crosses my mind when i´m half way up a ladder working on something else entirely and i climb down and write a note to myself in my sketch book, or i watch the best circus performance in the world and wish to emulate something just a beautiful. On one invitation to an exhibition it was written, “talent borrows, shit copies and genius steals”. If we use this quote in relation to our inspiration and how we act upon it, even if we do try to copy, borrow or steal an idea, it would never come out the same because of the individual framework and the constraints each of us is working with, so always have a go. On the other hand its quite polite to acknowledge our sources.