About the work
Animatopeoia, CL, 2018 - Ink, watercolour on digital reproduction of graphite original. Size: h33cm x w26cm
Context & passion
We live in the world of ‘The spectacle’. Each time we light up a screen, we switch off our brains and lose the capacity to create for ourselves. Each time we do so, we discard a little of our humanity - a dire prognosis for the future.
I seek to reinstate the magic we wield as children, the power to turn the page of a book and wholly inhabit an elaborate, sometimes terrifying, always beautiful alternate universe.
Source & subject matter
The works of late 19th Century folk illustrators of predominantly Western and Eastern origin are some of the most transformative works of art in existence. I draw from their power reverently.
I seek to bring the same skill, storytelling vision and mystery into a fine art context but with hidden, encoded and implied narratives, that with each body of work reflect episodes of my own journey, rather than a didactic whole.
With this in mind, the subject matter is by design both familiar and peculiar in equal measure. This allows the viewer a surreal leaping-off point; ideally to somewhere enriching and of their own making.
Craft & Form
The works are predominantly flat. I build constant inventiveness into the potential of mediums such as: oil, watercolour, graphite, ink and printing, as well as seamlessly and shamelessly weaving in some of the advantages of digital media: scanning, duplication, colour filters and layering.
The four cardinal formal values are: Charisma of line | Drama of movement | Mystery of light | Bold, magical colour.
We live in the world of ‘The spectacle’. Each time we light up a screen, we switch off our brains and lose the capacity to create for ourselves. Each time we do so, we discard a little of our humanity - a dire prognosis for the future.
I seek to reinstate the magic we wield as children, the power to turn the page of a book and wholly inhabit an elaborate, sometimes terrifying, always beautiful alternate universe.
Source & subject matter
The works of late 19th Century folk illustrators of predominantly Western and Eastern origin are some of the most transformative works of art in existence. I draw from their power reverently.
I seek to bring the same skill, storytelling vision and mystery into a fine art context but with hidden, encoded and implied narratives, that with each body of work reflect episodes of my own journey, rather than a didactic whole.
With this in mind, the subject matter is by design both familiar and peculiar in equal measure. This allows the viewer a surreal leaping-off point; ideally to somewhere enriching and of their own making.
Craft & Form
The works are predominantly flat. I build constant inventiveness into the potential of mediums such as: oil, watercolour, graphite, ink and printing, as well as seamlessly and shamelessly weaving in some of the advantages of digital media: scanning, duplication, colour filters and layering.
The four cardinal formal values are: Charisma of line | Drama of movement | Mystery of light | Bold, magical colour.
