His work now ranges across a number of disciplines including painting, film-making and poetry. As a painter his work is influenced by Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Nicolas da Stael, Emil Nolde and the St Ives artists Patrick Heron and Roger Hilton. His work aims to detail visual memories and in particular the abstracted forms, textures and colour themes of dreams and the subconsious. He also draws on cartographic images and forms to explore the planes and densities of elevation and altitude. He is based at Widcombe Studios in Bath, England where he experiments with the vocabularies of texture and colour using acrylic, gouache and watercolour. His paintings have widely exhibited in galleries and private collections in London and the West Country.
Tue 18 May, 2004 01:13 pm - Vivien - How do you know it would lose its translucency. Have you tried this ? Actually I haven't but I thought it might be a good idea or one that's worth playing with. Gouache does not... (view)
Tue 18 May, 2004 08:49 am - As just about everyone has said ink is unforgiving, but if use them like watercolours and paint fast it can create some interesting states. Have you thought of mixing the ink with impasto or... (view)
Sat 15 May, 2004 01:00 pm - Good luck Rayvatrap.
If you stay true to the qualities you hold most dear you'll be OK. If they don't like it, tough. (view)
Wed 12 May, 2004 02:00 pm - Rayvatrap - Absolutely right. I hope I wasn't coming on too strong. The rest of my living comes from management/strategic planning consultancy.
Your sentiments are good. And you're right... (view)
Wed 12 May, 2004 12:04 pm - Rayvatrap and JL Nobody,
Here! Here! What else do we create for? You have to be mentally ill to take up painting or the arts generally as a career option, there may or may not be a living to... (view)
Wed 12 May, 2004 02:24 am - I believe if you kowtow to the aesthetic and moral values of others you will compromise your integrity as an artist. How people react to your work is their problem. As artists in the public domain... (view)
Sun 9 May, 2004 05:58 am - Does anyone remember Cornelia Parker's - The Maybe. It was installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London where the actress Tilda Swinton slept - or pretended to sleep - in a perspex box for... (view)
Wed 21 Apr, 2004 10:59 am - White on White is superlative - a seminal work(I imagine). It's taken me five minutes to work this out - I love the idea of a dialogue of white/s. I'm going to think about this.... (view)
Wed 21 Apr, 2004 05:28 am - Perfection
No I haven't but after a quick search I came across Malevich's White on White but the image was so poor I couldn't draw any conclusions. Where can I find Mondrian's. (view)
Wed 21 Apr, 2004 02:19 am - What was Yves Klein up to ? By emptying the canvas of objects and marks was he exploring the purity of silence ? This idea took hold in the 60's when minimalists pursued freedom from the... (view)
