{"id":2985,"date":"2013-02-12T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2013-02-23T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T04:41:44","slug":"ask-our-students-mark-braidwood-tue-7-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/ask-our-students-mark-braidwood-tue-7-9pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask our students &#8211; Mark Braidwood (Tue 7-9pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mark Braidwood by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/8466033625\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Braidwood\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8246\/8466033625_9ac153e5d5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Name: Mark Braidwood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Occupation: Doctor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> Joined NSA: in 2004 &amp; 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: What<\/span> doodle \/ drawing \/ painting did you do in your early life that you were the most proud of? How old were you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: a WWII aeroplane and I was about 12.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: Have<\/span> you been always artistic \/ creative? if so, in what way?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: Nope. I don&#8217;t come from an artistic family and it&#8217;s been a slow awakening but a great journey.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: What<\/span> made you join NSA? Where did you hear\/find about NSA?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: I drove past it on a Bus and noticed the bright signage.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: If<\/span> you are allowed to have any famous painting in the world on your wall, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: Flaming June, by Frederick Lloyd Leighton.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flaming June, by Frederick Lloyd Leighton by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/8467139054\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flaming June, by Frederick Lloyd Leighton\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8374\/8467139054_e1e6e4f6cc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: What<\/span> are you working on in the class right now and what would you like to achieve with your art within a year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: I&#8217;m painting some Magnolia&#8217;s for my Mum&#8217;s birthday. My goals are impressionist landscapes that make people feel a connection.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">NSA: why<\/span> do you take the class, or what do you get out of it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MARK: I find the creative process like a form of meditation. It&#8217;s also very satisfying to have created something that you can appreciate later on.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>NSA: Finally, would you <span style=\"color: #993300;\">design a T-shirt for Mike<\/span> to wear in the class?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Designed by Mark Braidwood by Northshore School of Art, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/northshoreschoolofart\/8466112297\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Designed by Mark Braidwood\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8379\/8466112297_b494275795.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1929 alignleft\" style=\"padding: 10px;\" alt=\"mike_face\" src=\"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mike_face.jpg\" width=\"63\" height=\"84\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mike said<\/span>\u00a0&#8221; I spotted almost from the first class Mark had great potential but was aware the demands of training to be a doctor would take him away from the art school for quite a time, having said that four years later he re-enrolled and again within two to three weeks it was like he had never been away. From my point of view I consider Mark to be a friend , we did many radio programes together he was the host me the guest once a week discussing Art particularly painting ,its place in history philosophical and religious meanings, content and style.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to one of the radio programs we did it together <a title=\"Olymplia by Manet\" href=\"http:\/\/mikelamble.tumblr.com\/post\/2107243289\/mike-lamble-talks-about-olympia-by-manet\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt; Click Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Mark Braidwood Occupation: Doctor Joined NSA: in 2004 &amp; 2011 NSA: What doodle \/ drawing \/ painting did you do in your early life that you were the most proud of? How old&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[596,35],"tags":[597,599,598,600],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-our-students","category-blog","tag-ask-our-students-2","tag-mark-braidwood","tag-t-shirt-for-mike","tag-tue-7-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art-art.com.au\/nsa1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}