Year of the Bear

Where did they all come from?

I don’t know where the idea to paint bears came from, they just started appearing. A blank piece of paper, a brush, a drop of ink and water, became a strolling bear, or a fishing bear, or a swimming bear. There was no decision made to paint bears, totally the opposite in fact. It seemed incongruous, perhaps even a little dishonest, to start painting cre…