A new season
Substack is the new home of the Tim McFarlane Studio Newsletter!
Hello all!
Labor Day weekend has come and gone and even though summer isn’t over on the calendar, it may as well be Halloween, according to several stores I’ve visited in the past week. I’ve always looked at fall as the true beginning of the year probably because of the conditioning of years of going to school and noticing the sunsets getting earlier and earlier. It’s been a busy and very productive summer in the studio and I even had the opportunity to travel, rest, read and really rejuvenate. I’m incredibly grateful to have had some time to away from the daily, do a whole lot of nothing and just think.
One of the things that’s been on my mind is that I’ve wanted to change how I interact with my art community of fellow artists, collectors and others online. This summer, I took some time off from posting on my main Instagram feed and other social media to allow myself some mental space to rethink what my online life can look like. I even deleted my profile (and app) on the site formerly known as Twitter. My main question has been how to connect with you without social media platforms being the main way that I share my work and thoughts. Bringing my monthly newsletter and blog writings under one roof has been a goal of mine for a while and Substack seems to be the way to do that now.
If you’re reading this, you’re already on my newsletter list and will continue to receive my free studio newsletter monthly, usually during the first week of the month. My studio writings have been moved to Substack as well and are available by subscribing to them here: Tim McFarlane Studio: Art & Life Stirred Vigorously. My studio writings are published once weekly, sometimes less, depending on what’s going on and what I feel like writing about. Whatever happens, my writings will come directly to your inbox. The main benefit of subscribing to my studio writings in addition to my newsletter is that you’ll get an inside view of my studio work and thought processes with a healthy dose of life happenings mixed in because you can’t separate life and art. Another benefit is that my studio writings are longer and more in-depth than my social media posts and are away from the noise of social media platforms. Lastly, there’s an archive of almost 24 years of online studio writings going back to 2004-5 that you can access. It moves along in fits and starts, but there’s a lot of things to discover about my art practice and thoughts along the way.
We’re all inundated with newsletter requests and probably read less than what we subscribe to and I really understand that we don’t all have the capacity to keep up with everything that we’re interested in reading. However, I hope you’ll continue to join me on my rollercoaster ride of creativity and life. I know that Substack is a place to monetize writing of all forms, and even though I’m choosing to not monetize my writings in this form, it still supports my practice by allowing me to reach you and others with what I have to say and allow me to engage with more people in a more personal manner than with social media alone. More importantly, if you’ve enjoyed my past newsletters and writings, I hope that you’ll share my newsletter and writings with your friends, family and acquaintances and encourage them to subscribe, as well. The more people that I can reach, the better. I’ll be releasing my September newsletter in the next few days, thanks for truly appreciate you!
Thank you!
All my best,
Tim