Thoughts
Art and Ideas I like to mull over contemporary ideas about art and art-making here. Hope you will be a frequent visitor.
Read MoreAuthor: Lynna G
My name is Lynna Goldhar Smith, or Lynna-G for short. I am a multi-disciplinary artist. living in Vancouver which is part of the unceded traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish First Nations. I paint and write about painting.
What’s the title of this painting?
What is the title of his painting I ask myself. I look at it and think– What have I created here in this work? Where was I when I started it and where did the process take me? I ask these question to help me name the painting. I try to name it by what […]
Read MoreInspiration and Cognitive Fires.
I am inspired by trying to understand things that I don’t understand. The unknown inspires me. Confusion and displacement and new perspectives– new ways of thinking inspire me. I am inspired by everything that demands that I slow down and face all that I don’t know. Nothing is more intriguing to me than trying to figure […]
Read MorePainting and Writing and dreaming and stargazing
Even if we have a reliable method and a process that seems to work there is still a lot of mystery in making art. It’s a act of faith sometimes. Somehow magic is involved and patience. Sometimes a story calls you to come and find it, but you can’t quite locate where it’s hiding. I […]
Read MoreHey friends. I have this little article I wrote that might be helpful for when you are experiencing a bit of a block.
Leading the Witness. A cautionary tale for my fellow writers and artists. When I ask myself why I never finish anything- my mind will assume that this question is valid and that the statement is true and I will supply all kinds of evidence and end up concluding that I shouldn’t even bother writing or […]
Read MoreSome work in progress–The beginning of a story
Originally posted on Contemporary Paintings by Lynna Goldhar:
This is the beginning of a story that I scribbled down in the coffee shop today. I have had this idea in the back of my mind for a while. It showed up in my notebook today like this. My grandmother was quiet and mysterious and knew…
A New Year Wish for anyone struggling and not able to celebrate
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book It’s December 31st 2017. I am re-blogging this post from 2013, a very difficult year in my life and I’m sending it out to anyone who has struggled this year. Life this year has been stamping it’s foot, screaming at […]
Read MoreRemembering December 6.
Every year I make this post to remember this sad day. On December 6 in Canada many of us commemorate the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre,at L’École Polytechnique de Montréal. On that terrible day December 6 1989 14 innocent young women were gunned down-in a senseless and horrific act of violence against women. They were young engineering students-most of […]
Read MoreTrying to write a poem
0n the death of Seamus Heaney I am trying to write a poem because I am sad– and because summer is ending- and because a poet I love has died. I am trying to write a poem because– as the days grow short and the nights fall so suddenly- all my summers- of innocence and […]
Read MoreInsider Secrets
When I was a kid- my grade eight math teacher told our class about a mail-order scam where someone would put an ad in the classifieds–offering an ancient secret to becoming rich and famous. All you had to do was send nine dollars to a box number and the secret of unlimited wealth would be yours. A few weeks later, a booklet in a plain brown package would […]
Read MoreMind your own business
“There are only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God’s.” ~ Byron Katie Today, I had the urge to write about something that I was outraged about. I was annoyed about a particular internet art star. I wanted to be the kid in the crowd who cries out that the emperor has no clothes. But […]
Read MorePhew!
I am working on my play again after a couple of months of avoiding it. I feel like I am standing in front of a house with no door– and I am trying to figure out how to get back in. Today I am going for a long walk around Trout Lake with my characters. […]
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