Member since Tuesday 12th Mar, 2024
Explaining the philosophy behind ones art is not an easy task. Words are just a regimented method of communication with a set of diverse rules and complexity that sometimes leads to misunderstanding and confusion. And when we read a page of words what we are actually seeing is a picture of marks on paper that our brain translates into meaning.
Pictures, on the other hand, are deciphered almost immediately. Unlike words, we can see the world with stereoscopic eyes in a three-dimensional image. Cave paintings of animals and people were around long before written language.
When we paint a scene it’s generally two-dimensional. With a ‘flatness’ that has been debated, argued and speculated upon by artists and critics since painting began.
Expressing an idea or need to put emotion and meaning into a painting has motivated a lot of artistic movements and techniques – so much so that art has evolved, developed and mutated along many branches.
And then of course the viewer has to interpret the artist’s message in order to understand those intentions and feel of emotion.
My paintings fall into two categories - figurative and abstract. Both inspired by my local, natural environment - I live in a town just a stones-throw from the Dartmoor National Park in South West England.
