On being an abstract artist
pp. 155-166
in: Andrew Harrison (ed), Philosophy and the visual arts, Berlin, Springer, 1987Abstract
I am a painter, an abstract artist. I have been one for forty eight years: I was a painter long before I became a philosopher. I paint in oils and acrylics, watercolours and ink. As a painter, I shall try to say something about abstract art and about being an abstract artist.