Crisis of confidence

Sometimes I look at what I have created and it all feels a bit ‘lacking’ in something. I don’t understand about colours or about form or composition, can never ’see’ how something should look or have any ‘instinct’ about it. I have a box full of things I started and never finished because I don’t know what to ‘do’ with it. Feel a bit like the stuff I create that is any good is for swaps or round robins, and that I am only driven by the fact that I am on a deadline and that other people are going to see it. Miles says I am just experiencing a crisis of confidence, and that he can see my work is good and so can others, from the feedback I get. But I know when my stuff isn’t as good as it could be, which, at the moment, feels like most of the time. I often feel like I’m mimicking rather than creating. Miles says I just need to spend more time concentrating on my own art and developing it rather than chasing my tail all the time, like some kind of tread-mill.
I really wish I had some art ‘buddies’ to share stuff with and bounce ideas off. there’s always Glynis, but it’s not quite the same on the end of the phone.

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