How to teach yourself to be an artist in a nutshell. Study old masters and copy with understanding. As you do so, think twice, paint once!

Steve Talley’s approach is one that artists who wish to make a living from art ought to remember. He has the mindset of tradition. You start by working in the style of another, and let your own intepretion of the genre come through naturally. He is also commercially minded and so this forces him to focus on what will connect with people today - while not all that sells is good, as a general principle it is true that all art that is good will sell.

I am particularly pleased to see people looking to the gothic period for inspiration in the art and design for new churches!

Art is the product of artifice and is by nature artificial. Artificial intelligence is a misnoma. It is a creation of the programmer who created the algorithm and is not itself creative. It is artificial, like art, but it’s not intelligence.

T demand for good art, whether stimulated by offering originals or reproductions, will benefit the sales of both...and add to the well being of the world incalculably through the prayer that it will inspire.

What is sad for me, is not so much that people who hate the Church and Mary, want to destroy the symbolism that supports it and replace it with signs of the anti-Christ and the anti-Mary. One would expect that. The dismay is how little pushback there is from those who believe and ought to know better.

Harmony, monotony and cacophony are the good, the bad and the ugly of architectural form.

The guild is dedicated to the promotion and support of Catholic artists and this year’s conference will feature Alexander Stoddart, Sculptor in Ordinary for Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland.

I believe that this approach of where the artist describes form with line, rather than tonal or color variation offers artists a way of painting that eliminates the scourge of naturalism today which is sentimentality. I would encourage artists and patrons to look at this as an option for covering large areas of their church walls.

The goal of the group of singers to first to be able to sing the Office confidentally, and then for us to be able to pass it on to others. The hope is that the prisoners will learn to sing with us, then without us, and to be able to teach others to join in.