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source:http://thedesignfiles.net/2012/03/interview-lara-merrett/# I came across this interview with Artist Lara Merrett and I just had to share the statement about her art process: Can you give us a little insight into your process? What materials do you use? Is each work pre-planned or created very intuitively? Do you work on multiple canvases at one time? And how long does each work take to complete? I only work with water-based materials, which include inks, acrylics, vinyl and metallics. No work is ever pre-planned, however each work does inform the next. They become a family or chapters in an idea. I mostly start a painting flat on the floor and move around the work pouring lots of colours over the canvas. I always have at least six works in progress, but this eventually narrows down to the work I become most obsessed with. I have to feel a strong pull toward the work or I won’t work on it at all. It’s like magic when the unexpected starts to happen. I love it… it’s...

source: http://meredithpardue.blogspot.ca/p/biography.html I came across this Artist through Pinterest and her biography is so honest that I have to add it to my blog for inspiration. I have read tons of biographies and tried somehow to take example on how to write my own and just didn't feel any of them said a word about the artist but Meredith's does. I was born in Monroe, LA in 1975. I earned my B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998, and my M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in 2003.  I now live and work in Austin, TX. That is all I was really going to say about myself. But there is so much more that has shaped me, my work, my artistic vision, and my perception of things in general, that I decided to use this biography as an opportunity to reflect upon and share some of the experiences and people that have influenced who I am. Though I have been painting as far back as I can remember, the environment of my childhood and home was not exactly a...