Recent portfolio of works

Posted by webadmin on March 3, 2016 in New Work | Comments Off on Recent portfolio of works

The opening painting is in a portfolio of works presented for my NM3001 (New Media)
artist assessment at James Cook University, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. All the works in that portfolio are examples of recent art practice and represent my exploration of the local landscape as a subject for examining my personal emotional responses with the view of seeing art as the most human of interventions for healing of well-being.

ACCEPTING THE STORM, 2015 gouache on paper, 420 x 594 mm.

‘I draw and paint for no reason than I need to create. I am a constant doodler and then I paint in intense sessions that last for two to three hours before my hands hurt. I like to paint landscapes that have a sense of watching and waiting—the viewer no doubt—landscapes that initiate flights of fancy. My father beat me as a child until I could not scream, my mother tortured me as it pleased her, until I just left her to her madness. I am a survivor. Now I just flow, I do the work, I enjoy my fast paintings. I paint people and their pets, I feel the landscape as an energy. And I reminisce, but unlike my mother I make peace with my past. I try every day to let it go. I look to keeping busy regardless of the physical discomfort I experience or the sad memories that do flutter in the back of my mind because I have known real intensity. I’ve looked into the faces of young men terrified of dying, I watched my parents pass with anger, and I’ve seen my world fade into a place of strangers. I’m just so Arty and maybe I can help others live more peacefully. That’s a plan.’