Simply You

BEGINNER’S GUIDE

How have you educated yourself about art?

I don’t have any sort of academic education in art, but my dad loved art and collected New Zealand art for a time and I spent 10 years in New York going to museums and galleries every weekend. It all influenced me and helped create an interest in and an appreciation of art, and a clear aesthetic that I admire and am attracted to. Reading a lot about artists – I probably have 30 or so books about artists I like – has

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