I would begin by advocating for the mindset of Rober Henri who viewed art not as a product, but as a byproduct of a passionate life; as evidence of our humanity. He penned it well when he said "The objective isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." I think this is where fine art is born, and it’s something I have believed in, passionately I might say, from the beginning of my career in art. Having received a 3-year multi-disciplinary education in fine art I have worked with a wide variety of mediums, always attempting to allow the narrative to have its say in determining the ones best suited for the statement. I have worked with glass, fabrics, metal, photography, performance and with words. And they become intertwined. As of late I have been working with assemblages and, more recently, with the medium of collage. In all cases, the narrative come first. The question is always, “What do I want to say, and which medium(s) do I need with which to say it?”

Everyone is an artist” is probably the most famous quote by the German artist Joseph Beuys. "And it’s probably also the most misunderstood. Because what Beuys did not mean is that everyone is an artist in the usual and narrow sense of the word, like a painter or a sculptor. For Beuys “artist” was the word he used to describe the essence of what it means to be a human being: that deep need and fundamental ability to create and be creative.

In this sense, “everyone is an artist” means that everyone can and needs to be creative — so you can be an ‘artistic’ mother, an ‘artistic’ manager, an ‘artistic’ bus driver, even an ‘artistic’ politician. It doesn’t matter what your means of expression are — being an artist means being creative in whatever way is available and feels natural to you. In turn, you can also be an artistic painter or sculptor. But, regardless of what they themselves might think, not every artist is a maker of fine art. What is art, what is fine art, and what's the difference might be a question best answered by first defining the word 'art'.

Although the word has become somewhat cliche, art is fundamentally, like pretty much everything else humans have imagined into existence, a product of human experience, and anyone who has the desire can make it. But just because someone has created a painting on a piece of canvas, it doesn't mean that a piece of fine art has been created. By definition, it's just a painting. An image carved out from a piece of marble or soap stone doesn’t mean that the artist has created a piece of fine art. With some talent, the only given is that it might turn out to be an artistic carving. In keeping, the same applies to performance, assemblage, and for that matter all other art forms out there.

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