Downs Craft
What's better than creating something beautiful with your own heart and hands?
The commercialism of art may make you think that you can't possibly be in the same company with 'real' artists or crafts people.
If that is your thought, Downscraft is here to chanllenge you .....
Are you an artistic or crafty person? Would you like to be one?
Would you like help to become an artistic or crafty person, to make something beautiful with your own hands .......
This is the place for you!
The image buttons on the left will take to a Downs craft wonderland!
The buttons on the right will take you to our contact pages, other links, events etc
Please wander around our site!
Are you a craft club on the Downs? Would you like to share in our support of each other?
Please contact us (see our contacts page ). We will be happy to hear from you!
The Warwick Potters Club has held another successful combined art and craft show.
Have a LOOK!
Art or Craft?
What's the difference? In the hands of some of our skillful and sensitive club members the difference seems to blur quite a lot.
Some of our members put so much effort and love into their work that calling it art is not amiss. Of course all art assumes the
techniques of the art being progressively mastered.
So who is to decide? Downscraft.org has chosen YOU. Yes YOU, we can't make up our minds!
How can you decide?
Is it a case of 'I know what I like'. No. That decides what you like, which is ok. But bear in mind that some of our most
valued artistic styles (e.g. impressionism) have been aggressively abused at their first revealing.
Must it be a painting or a statue/sculpture? Have a look at some of the beautiful wood work, (pieces of furniture, not paintings) for
a challenge to that view. Also the beautiful textile work from the Spinners and Weavers.
Is it creativity, being able to dream up something that no-one else has thought of?
Maybe this is a little closer, but still not close enough. Sensitive works are so often drawn from nature, which is an undending source
of inspiration for artists and crafts people. Every artist and crafts person muses on what sort of person/God could have made the
things that so delight us to view. Many may think He is the greatest artist of all. Copying (an awful word to artists generally) from nature
doesn't seem to upset us at all.
Being able to depict such beauty in a fresh way is a special privelege. But it is doubtful that any creative person really
imagines he/she is doing a better job than nature.
No, we still don't have a conclusion
Here is a topic for a great deal of thought, feeling and imagination. Do you have a view? Feel free to send it to Neil at
ncordes@optusnet.com.au
If you can add an interesting point of view, even if you disagree with some of the above, you may see your comments on this page!
If you prefer not to be on this page, or anonymous, that's ok, we will be happy to hear from you.
