What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn't merely sensational, that doesn't get its message across in ten seconds, that isn't falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

— Robert Hughes

Slow Painting filters ideas from books, magazines, journals, websites and blogs that touch upon the transformative power of visual language.

Slow Muse explores the raw material that influences a visual artist — provocative ideas, the creative imagination, the disconnects that exist between art and life. Inspiration often comes through other art forms including poetry, music, writing and theatre.

Slow Painters provides a selection of art by artists who are creating work for and from a transformative place.