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Donna Druchunas's avatar

Adding beauty and joy to the world is a worthwhile activity in and of itself.

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Kirsten Basram's avatar

Thank you for this thoughtful piece. As an abstract landscape artist I try to address issues of environmental crisis and I feel very strongly about human rights.

For many artists, paintings seem to come 'through' us and I simply cannot make the kind of raw and angry art that I feel I perhaps 'ought' to be making.

However, bringing light and contemplative space into my work feels like a counterpoint to the aggressive overwhelm of the current world.

As artists also we can make quite specific points with the way we name paintings and sell them to raise funds for causes we believe in.

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