Returning from Gunnersbury Park with new work in my book of trees I am aware of how close to magic this thing is. How we artists conjure up material from the air. Mixing and blending -be it photons, particles or sound waves- is our never-ending adventure, the journey towards the Philosopher's Stone. Using industrial Edding markers in place of oils or pastels it is possible to steer even the most primitive, hard medium into submission. Indeed, I prefer the 'useful conflict' that an unconventional and difficult medium provides. The work then becomes evidence of something deeper than surface representation - it is the manifestation of symbiosis between man and material.
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AuthorPainter, film-maker, photographer, installation artist, musician. I move between these disciplines, sometimes blending, sometimes isolating. The process being dictated by the nature of the project. If in harmony, the work feeds back and provides a wholistic guidance from which other projects grow. Archives
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