Dear Readers:  Besides being artists, what do Vincent van Gogh, Grandma Moses and Henri Rousseau have in common?  The answer may surprise you:  they are all self-taught. A little “digging” shows a significant number of visual artists, musicians and photographers have carved out highly successful careers with little or no formal training.  Instead, they’ve acquired […]

Dear Readers: What makes a writer write? A painter paint? What makes anyone, amateur or professional, in any of the arts do what he or she does? The answers, of course, are many and varied, but among the most basic certainly must be that the person loves the chosen art form. In our column today, […]