Theory of Art - What is Art

Art is a human endeavour.  Small children do it (probably best).  I started doodling absent-mindedly when I was out of work in the 60’s and it was so “good” I kept it all these years.  I did not know how good it was until I whittled the scrawling into a piece of wood. That’s when I got the idea for “Wooden Things” a business name for making saleable decorative items in the form of Wood Carvings and Sculpture.  One day when I was thinking about a sculpture of The Three Crosses I started painting in acrylics on A4 80 GSM Bond Paper using toothpicks to lay on the paint and after I got through making The Three Crosses sculpture I began to paint on anything I could get.  I painted many pictures on corrugated cardboard that I found and I made wooded frames for them out of pallets and fence palings until I amputated my left hand with a compound mitre saw.  After the surgeons sewed it back on I relearned to play the guitar.