Draw: November 2009

Sunday 15 November 2009

My chimp is now a greeting card, plus some other stuff. Buy it please if you like my art. Funds for my drug habbit.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/photorealism/art/4137404-1-chimp

Artist's Statement

The images that I paint and draw are characters I develop from found photographs. The photographs often celebrate or commemorate times of past England, leisure, iconography and social history. After I select imagery from different locations and eras, I go about ‘forming’ my own scenario, which is an alchemical and tentative process. I am careful to leave my viewer room to speculate upon their own narrative, this is important to me. I am hoping that I can extrude and expand upon the resource of emotion and information this found photography gives to me. With my painting I intend to filter the content I find, into a whole new sensory experience for my viewer.

I am currently focusing on how found photographs of twee, English settings show people engaging in the sensuality of their location. I pick up on and accentuate the way their expressions show enjoyment associated with sea side ephemera, like ice cream in a cone and donkey rides. The 21st century is far removed from that environment; people usually aspire to go abroad. The presence of sea side’s as a cultural and inspirational place has diminished, as quality of living has improved. With my painting, I use this kind of misplaced nostalgia to create my absurd dreamlike worlds, which exude joy and indulgence in simple pleasures. The drawings I do have a realistic approach where I use hatching to establish tone and texture, the painting style is markedly different, cartoonish, fluid and brightly coloured.

Draw

Friday 27 November 2009

Bears and Chickens!

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Wall

Monday 23 November 2009

Dead Dad

Sunday 22 November 2009

Go Geese Lightning

Friday 20 November 2009

Dead Tired

Thursday 19 November 2009

Spaceman

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Whip

Sunday 15 November 2009

Chimp Card

Matchsticks

Saturday 14 November 2009

Bike

Cut

Friday 13 November 2009

Surface

Thursday 12 November 2009

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Scab

Tuesday 10 November 2009

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Deliver

Monday 9 November 2009

Bloater

Saturday 7 November 2009

Death

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