Mystery objects

Whilst going through a stack of prints recently I came across a long forgotten work that caught my attention. It is part of a small series of images I made a long time back. Ocassionally whilst watching a film I'd notice a brief intriguing glimpse of a picture or photo or paitning or suchlike on the wall of the film set. Usually these images are very blurred and brief and this series of works was about filling in the gaps and re-interpreting what the image might have been with of course the added influence of my particular slant. "video image" is such a work. Along similar lines "snowscene" is a work from my recent exhibition where its up to the viewer to use their own experience to determine exactly what is going on and what the shapes mean.

Drawing from Life

A lot of my more imaginative work is drawn directly onto the printing plate with minimal pre-drawing and then evolves as the drawing progresses. Although a very different discipline this way of creating images benefits from my love of drawing from a live model. I've posted some details of life drawings today. These are very quick sketches scratched out in less than a minute, some times much faster. The Dynamic Man is a very old plate that I have recently "re-visited" and enjoyed printing up again and is a sort of hybrid between a life drawing and a worked plate. This is one of the great things about printing ie. that I can still print and sell work made many years ago, if its any good.

Horror and Humour

Something that I really enjoy observing when people look through my art work is that they may laugh at one image and then are aghast at the next. I have many diverse themes in my imagery but for me there are threads that bind and link them all. There is a character who appears in varied guises in many works and has been appearing for years. He is the diver; now transmuting into a bee-keeper and more lately the arctic explorer. A lot of the images where this figure appears deal with my feelings of the how humans relate to the world beyond the limits of their body. I've posted an image drawn and printed only today; it has a working title at the moment. A lot of the titles I give my work take a long time to be decided upon and sometimes change over time as fresh prints are produced from the plate. I hope to allow the viewers own consciousness to determine the true meaning of an image; to not be mis-directed by my title and in a very minor way perhaps lead the viewer to question or even understand themselves a little better through the process.