But is it Art??

"Piled High"
24 x 20, Oil on Canvas
(c) Lesley Powell 2014

I have greatly enjoyed working on my "Laundry Series" of paintings. I thought of this humble subject recently, when I read the following quote from Alain de Botton's new book, The News:

"This...is what artists do; 

They notice stuff;

The small and unobtrusive stuff that other people--

ploughmen and shepherds, you and me, and journalists in a hurry--

miss

and yet that is essential to halting our usual indifference

and callousness."