What is your mission?
I don’t think of myself as a folk artist. In fact, none of the craftspeople and artists I know are comfortable with all-encompassing labels. One of my peers who smirked at the folk artist label being applied to her and her work cackled and said, ” let them call me what they will as long as they buy the work.” I think she sells her impressionistic paintings at different galleries than where she sells her folksy greeting cards. It boggles the imagination that critics, folklorists, and others seem to think that just because you produce one type of work in a particular area that it renders you unable to do other things.
The little angel is me in folk arts mode. It’s my mission to confound and confuse the narrow-minded.
Darn it! Let’s fold, spindle, and mutilate convention, and have a good time doing it too!
When I was living with my father, he pointed out that my drawings were in folk art style. His wife commented that she did not care for folk art. He replied that not everyone has good taste. 🙂