Colin Ruffell

Memes and schemes are the lifeblood of a creative lifestyle. Someone, a beloved person very close to me, told me recently that I seem to be forever making lists. It may be true, but I prefer to say that I am constantly amassing important data to try to find the meaningful significant patterns that are hidden within so that I can benefit mankind forever. Hmmm? These are two points of view pointing to the same thing. Meaningful significant patterns, hmmm? The human intelligent

AFRICAN ART INFLUENCE ‘Sub-Saharan African art has had a major influence on European art for the last 100 years.’ This has been a claim made by art historians for most of my professional career. Previously I haven’t really thought about it much. Their claim is quite interesting but not much more. Until now! I set myself the subject ‘African Art Influence’ for this blog. So I’ve been thinking and reading about it a bit more. Wow! Background. It is interesting to realise that s

Time goes by ... am I just as famous one year later? A year ago I wrote a blog for my other website artpublish.com that was all about how licensing won't make you rich but it might make you famous. So a year later I ask myself ... are you any more famous, just as famous, or less famous? And does that matter anyway? Well, I reckon that my famousness is probably just about the same, and it does matter because exposure is important for any small, self-employed, one-man-band busi

All artists beware of this scam. These are fake buyers who are working an old scam. Here’s how the scam works: