More Q&A with Cross Stitch Collection Magazine

I was recently interviewed for a magazine called Cross Stitch Collection, the number one needlecraft publication in the UK. The interview was for one of our newest licensees in the UK - Coats Crafts. We’re selling Thomas Kinkade Collection premium items under their Maia brand.

Here are questions #3 and #4. I found them to be quite intriguing and fun to answer.

Tell us about your worst event painting disaster?

As a young gallery artist I once painted a scene of an old oak tree with some sheep standing below it. I had forgotten to varnish the painting, and when I went to deliver the piece I quickly brushed on some varnish only to find that the solvent in the varnish had melted away the sheep. So I ended up with a painting of an oak tree only.

What’s the one thing about the art world you wish you could change?

I wish romantic artists were afforded the same respect that romantic novelists or romantic musicians are. It seems that in the art world, anything bursting with beauty is considered less important. I have always been a romantic, and make no apologies for the fact that my paintings are scenic in nature. I don’t have any interest in painting controversy or ugliness. To me there is enough of that in the world already.