graduated 2003 medicine hat college visual communications program exhibiting since 2001
description of work-
I work in many media including painting, comics, animation, short film, and literature, my work reflects all aspects of my mind, depending on my mood, its best viewed than written about.
living artists-
Terry Gilliam, SAM Kieth, David Cronenberg, David lynch.
no longer living-
William s.Burroughs, Picasso, Van Gogh, Shiele, Munch.....
should art have social/political message?
I think it depends on the artist. The very act of doing art that's true to one self is a social and political act. I am not one that creates or is interested in very political art, well at least not art that crams it down your throat. I believe the true master can get the point across in a more subdued, or even humorous fashion. Like Terry Gilliam for example.
why do I do art?-
at first it was a way out of the work world, i went to art school not because I cared about art, but a way to temporarily escape hell, now its just a way of life, I am controlled by the bastard god "Art" I really have no say in the matter any more. I am bored by most art, and figured I should do something about it, so I have created work that entertains me. websites
Victoria's Poet Laureate Linda Rogers at the opening reception of the exhibit " Circuitous Routes: Excess/Abundance " by Artist Wendy Welch, Open Space Gallery.
Exhibit-V provides an extensive monthly calendar of openings,ongoing art exhibitions and the most reliable list of art galleries in Victoria B.C. Canada. Video clips of exhibitions and the people attending the events, as well as interviews with artists.
Peter Doig by Adrian Searle, Kitty Scott and Catherine Grenier
Whether painting a mysterious bearded figure floating on a flat wash of blue or a winter landscape glimpsed through a thick web of branches, Peter Doig harness the materiality of his medium to create what he calls ' abstractions of memories', like scenes in a series of mysterious narratives. Doig's work has been exhibited at the world's top museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Centre Pompidou in Paris and The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Peter Doig was raised in Canada , based in London for two decades and now living in Trinidad. The book has an interview with the artist by Kitty Scott, a survey by Adrian Searle and a Study on painting by Catherine Grenier.