Dear actioncat568:

And now to your post: I don’t know what “Art GCSE project” was about but it sure worked against you. It was a negative experience and you are turned off to art. You are distressed because you feel that you lost an outlet to stress and a love that you had, for expressing yourself in art.

The thing is, whatever “Art GCSE project” means (I don’t know what it means)- whatever it is, is not the art that you loved before and still love. What it was- was a bad experience for you, that is all, not a life sentence on art and you.

I hope you can separate the two, that “Art GCSE project” and Art. The two are not the same.

You are young and yet to learn that when people in authority, teachers, parents.. say whatever it is they say, does not mean it is so. Your art is what kept you going all these years. Let no one take it away from you. Relax and do what you did before, the art that you did before. That was real art. The other thing… was not.

anita