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Biography
Preferred Medium:
oil on canvas and mixed media on board
Preferred Style:
dynamic, vibrant and expressionistic
Describe the extent of your talent as an artist:
My work drifts between abstraction and representation. It is based on the theme of dance, grace and exuberance and is characterized by it's visual decadence, which makes it's impact through it's freshness and spontaneity.
Describe your early memories of your emerging talent as an artist?:
I have always been interested in painting the body in movement: featuring figures engaged in enigmatic actions and fusing the real with the dreamlike. I feel my work is about an eternal rhythm – the human being as fleeting image that vanishes since it transforms, evolves, changes, fragments, dissolves, dies and regenerates again and again.
Formal Training:
BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art Painting from University of Brighton / studied at Northbrook College, Sussex, Union Place Campus, UK
Informal Training:
all of the below...
Other influences:
quantum leap & evolving consciousness and our true nature of reality, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Mind power, Mysticism, Mythology, Nature, Dance, Dreams, Energy, Enlightenment,
Admired Artists:
Alex Grey, Bill Viola, Egon Schiele, Pablo Amaringo, Joel Peter Witkin, Hughie O'Donoghue, Francis Bacon
Role of figurative art:
A true artist, whether he/she knows it or not, creates from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
A one line summation of your relationship to art:
…Living life with grace conserves energy.
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Guest Article
The importance of paperwork in art transactions:
Stating that the art world relies on personal relationships and that transactions are concluded by a handshake is as cliche as it is true. This informal way of doing business made sense when the art world was still relatively small and when dealers, collectors and artists were all part of the same social scene in one way or another. In this day and age however it seems sensible to put certain things in writing.
