# Interview surrounded by the concept: World Excellence #
What is excellence to you?
Excellence is conveying your ideas and concepts, showing expertise in your handling of the medium.
What do you consider a runway to your success, i.e.what helped you “take off”?
Following my passion for printmaking and etching in particular, by joining workshops at the Athens Printmaking Centre. Further courses in France and Italy provided the skills, ideas, and inspiration for developing my ideas. Creating work with an element of personal storytelling further enriched my work.
What do you consider growth?
Growth is a mindset of continual enrichment, development of ideas and processes, and open-mindedness to change.
What do you consider success?
Success is following your passions and feeling free to continually evolve as an artist.
What do you consider uniqueness?
Creating personally significant artwork defines uniqueness
Who are the people and why that you could include in a section called”asdonebythebest”?
Sculptor Henry Moore created sculptures that embodied the essence of natural and manmade forms, his drawings encapsulate the nature of these forms. William Blake, painter, printmaker, visionary, and poet created spiritual representations combining text and image in a Romantic style.
What is your favourite habit that you could include in a second called’ diamond pages’?
Creating a visual diary to record my travels, recently recording the Botanical Gardens in Bonn, the Baroque towns of Sicily, and Connemara landscapes in Ireland.
What is your favourite city and why?
This would be Barcelona for the art and architecture of Gaudi, Picasso, and Miro as well as the wide streets and location by the sea.
What kind of landscape around the world would you be able to include in a blue-green world?
Definitely the Emerald Isle, Ireland. The landscape is composed of intense green, with amazing reflections in the sea and lakes.
What is your wish for the planet we live on?
Respect for the environment and a harmonious relationship between man and nature.
Judy Attwood, Artist, www.timeofart.gr
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