1. -What is your artistic background?
I started painting as a child in my Father's studio, and always "dabbled". it wasn't until I was an adult and had already had a career, that I decided to go to Art School. I gradated from the Victoria College of Art in 1997 and have been painting full-time ever since.
I started painting as a child in my Father's studio, and always "dabbled". it wasn't until I was an adult and had already had a career, that I decided to go to Art School. I gradated from the Victoria College of Art in 1997 and have been painting full-time ever since.
2. -How do you describe your work?
My work is completely process driven, I am interested in mark making and the layering of materials, I use many materials and objects to create the works,plaster, graphite, charcoal, and paint are layered, scratched into, scrapped away and added back, lines are intentionally obscured, hinting that a deeper meaning lies beneath the surface. Although the works are autobiographical in nature the symbols are often arcane.
My work is completely process driven, I am interested in mark making and the layering of materials, I use many materials and objects to create the works,plaster, graphite, charcoal, and paint are layered, scratched into, scrapped away and added back, lines are intentionally obscured, hinting that a deeper meaning lies beneath the surface. Although the works are autobiographical in nature the symbols are often arcane.
3.-Who are the living artists you find more interesting?
Cy Twombly, Cecily Brown
Cy Twombly, Cecily Brown
4.-Who are the no longer living artists you find most interesting?
Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Durer, The Fauves and Cezanne
Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Durer, The Fauves and Cezanne
5. -Should art have a social/political message?
If what the artist is trying to say has a social of political message, then that is what the artist intended. Some very powerful art has had a social or political message.
If what the artist is trying to say has a social of political message, then that is what the artist intended. Some very powerful art has had a social or political message.
6.-Why do you do art?
Because I have to!!! It's like breathing.
Because I have to!!! It's like breathing.
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