The motivation behind my work is a desire to make images that collide painting with photography, digital imaging and digital printmaking technology.
My primary interest is mostly in the aesthetics of the work - What I mean by the term aesthetic is the use of techniques that establish a sense of order within the picture plane. For example, devices of composition, visual pathways, the grid, colour balance, variation of pattern, shape and perspective help to establish order within a painting.
This body of work is a departure from the realist paintings of the past. I am currently exploring the idea of Landscape based on my childhood memories glued to the window of an Ansett Fokker Friendship aircraft flying to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with my Dad. The work is drawing based with paint colour and form to evoke a feeling of Memory and Landscape, looking down on towns, farms, mountains, plains and the barren red earth that is so much a part of living in Broken Hill. No particular place is represented, take from it what you will. A complimentary certificate of valuation will be included.
This body of work is a departure from the realist paintings of the past. I am currently exploring the idea of Landscape based on my childhood memories glued to the window of an Ansett Fokker Friendship aircraft flying to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with my Dad. The work is drawing based with paint colour and form to evoke a feeling of Memory and Landscape, looking down on towns, farms, mountains, plains and the barren red earth that is so much a part of living in Broken Hill. No particular place is represented, take from it what you will. A complimentary certificate of valuation will be included.
“Everything I do is very much a collision of classical painting, photography and print making, it’s all about putting the whole lot together.”
The main idea behind his coming exhibition, Through a Glass Darkly, is how the rise of digital imaging has subverted the notion of photographs as being realistic representations of everyday life.
