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To create is to live. If you work within some kind of creative pursuit you may well understand this. To NOT create is to wither, to fade, to slowly disappear. It is more than an occupation. Like being a sportsperson, it’s a ‘must’. It\u2019s to understand that this passion is rooted not in choices but in compulsions. It can\u2019t be resisted. Regardless of ‘how’ we will always find ways to ‘do’; it drives us because it is an innate reflex. But what if you can’t follow this urge anymore? Whether you haven\u2019t had the time, the inspiration or the resources, it’s like losing yourself. How do you find a different way to fulfil that creative addiction? Find out more here in Drawing With Scissors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image Henri Matisse Nu bleu 11 1952 Gouache Decoupee 116,2 x 88,8cm with thanks to The Arts Council Collection symbol 211\/f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you have this drive, you want to keep it in your life forever. This raises a few questions. What happens when you are met with an obstacle to your need to create? <\/em>Does one pursue their passion in a way that strays from the norm? And anyway, what does it mean to be creative when you can\u2019t be penned in by tradition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Krzysztof Maksimiuk, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henri Matisse, the revolutionary Fauvist painter, highly regarded for his incomparable use of colour, was diagnosed with abdominal cancer in 1941 at the age of 71. Wheelchair-bound and largely confined to his bed in his final years, he refused to halt his career and instead continued to innovate through collage, using coloured paper and glue instead of his well-used medium of paints and a brush he could no longer hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bed-bound but still filled with the inherent need to make, Matisse began working on what would become a prolific body of collage\/decoupage work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Paper cutting allows me to draw with colours. For me, it\u2019s a simplification: instead of drawing the contour and colouring the inside \u2013 one modifying the other \u2013 I draw directly into the colour<\/strong><\/em>.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matisse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had spent his career renowned as a master of colour; painting with such vibrancy he was even advised to wear dark glasses. Incapable of resigning to illness, Matisse found a new way to explore his life’s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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