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"All
children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up." |
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I have been drawing and painting since childhood and started my artistic endeavours largely self taught in illustration during the 1990s, providing posters, logos and design work for many of the SF conventions and events run in and around Glasgow during the mid-to-late nineties.
Living as I do in Scotland, it's impossible not to be amazed by the power of the landscape and constantly changing air to elicit emotion and atmosphere. I wanted to find a way of expressing this through my art, so in 2004 I started training in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art, where I found myself moving into more abstract colour based work. It was there that I was able to develop a spontaneous yet emotive style of my own through which to capture the emotion and atmosphere of mountains and water and clouds and sunlight in both real and invented contexts. |
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I have included a selection of internet links that inspire and influence me which you may find interesting:
A selection of works by JMW Turner
Brian James Waugh - Glasgow based artist
working in a pre-raphaelite style
Living in NZ - the photography of John Watt
The music of Marillion
Wassily Kandinsky's
seminal work Concerning the Spiritual in Art has had a huge
impact on my art and ideas.
"Concerning the Spiritual in Art" - HTML
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