The artist: I’ve always and fundamentally been creative and artistically inclined even as a small child, i felt patterns and the vibrancy of colour intensely, I actually vividly remember the colours associated with the 1982 World Cup in Spain, especially the Brazilian yellow.
I’ve found it easy to see patterns and art everywhere, often to the point of distraction. It’s not that I had a choice between academic studies and art, there was only art, I couldn’t understand the more academic side of school and I always seemed to think in extremes of colour, although with that in mind I only ever remember dreaming in black & white.
The art I’ve spent the majority of my adult life making has often been very laborious and drawn out whereby there is often numerous paintings within one painting, over working and chance takes over and I can then get the feeling like I didn’t actually make the paintings.
My primary mediums of choice tend to be a combination of acrylic paints combined with Posca Paint pens, following application of flat layer of coloured paint I usually then work backwards into the pieces from thicker tops down to point 0.7 mm pens to obtain fine levels of detail.
I’m obsessed with faces and often in my art they’ll be shapes and content that are based on the human face.
The artwork that I’ve provided to RSA this time, I believe works four ways and faces can be seen regardless of which way it’s displayed.
Time has always been of paramount importance to my work and something I’ve worried about.
There’s maybe even an argument to say the repetitive side of my character has located, facilitated and produced the paintings and I act as a mere bystander.