Milne Publishing is proud to present Artist Talk Magazine issue 23. This issue is dedicated to celebrating all aspects of art.

Everyone featured within this issue have given interesting, in-depth, honest accounts about themselves, their work, views and ideas. In addition to the amazing images of the work they have produced, which I know you the reader will enjoy and be inspired by.

Thank you to everyone who entered our open call. The cover of this issue features all 64 artists involved in this issue.

“Nothing starts, everything continues”. This is a remarkable statement from the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa in his book “New Year”. “Beginning just begins in thought”, he’d say. Hence, every day can be “New Year” or it can even happen many times a day. It all starts with an idea, which may fill our minds and even better, our hearts. This present issue “starts” for many outstanding artists and “continues” for so many brilliant ones. As Art continues and endures so many rebirths and revivals, connecting past with a present expression and a future mark.

The fireworks announce, in a fleeting instant, that the “New Year” has arrived. Living the present, reminiscing about the past and dreaming about the future, a mix of nostalgia, anticipation and the inexplicable joy coming from the sound of the toast at midnight. Perhaps this is the essence of creatively “continuing” Art: learning from the past, enjoying the present and charting a happy future.
Nothing starts, everything continues.

When does Art begin? In fact, when did it start? Each creation carries nostalgia, experience, memories, joy, reasons, motivations and dreams. It captures the memory, makes the soul shine and inspires thought. Regardless of the language, origin or even the intention of the artist, their Art will start or continue with each observer, conveying thousands of particular sensations. It is like the future and like life itself, it is seen, not through the eyes, but through the heart and emotions of those who observe them.

It is invented and reinvented, it is created and deconstructed. For Art, only one verb matters: FEEL. Art is freedom, it is like a flowing river which starts at a certain point, but comes from somewhere and is going somewhere. It has presence, origin and destiny. The artistic expression carries thousands of years of history, stories, references and at the same time, it is something completely new, a complete breakthrough, born from a white sheet, an untouched canvas or from a piece of material.

Just like the year that begins, which comes filled with our experiences and leads us to our passions, projects and dreams, Art is a great path of past, present and future connections. It is common for us all to simply exist but we are free to live, create, contemplate, try, experience, love, dream and fulfil.

Is Art a dream, a delusional and brave thought, a set goal? Do we create what we want or do we want to create? Art is life itself and year after year, for thousands of them, we learn from and develop as a representation of people, their culture and that is how we immortalise it.

Do we immortalise the changeable? Do we immortalise the moment it is created? Do we immortalise the idea? Do we immortalise the artist’s intention? The emotion felt? The emotion provoked? The technique used? It is a flowing river, if you just touch it, it becomes part of us and therefore becomes eternal.

Every brushstroke is as rare as every minute of our lives.

In the “New Year” and the “continuing” of your life, I wish you renewal and rebirth. May Art be the multiplication of feelings, eyes, hearts and dreams. May you always be faithful to yourself and do not get carried away with the excitement of the “New”. May you always remember what brought you to the present and where you intend to go. May dreams come true, hope be renewed and your Art admired. I wish that the colours of life can move you, the strokes can motivate you, the canvases can free your mind and open your heart to the essence of life: ART.”

Written by -
Deisemara Roberta da Silva

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