Warrnambool
I am an artist and writer from Warrnambool. I paint with acrylics on canvas.
Artworks: 6
I hope that my art captures something true about the world — the beauty of the ordinary, the joy of human interaction, the intensity of an emotion. My art is largely figurative, people and things, and I attempt to represent what I see and experience with both a sense of appreciation and humour. My work is often colourful and illustrative, and can tend towards the naive. It frequently has an element of fantasy about it.
I paint because I enjoy it it … and because I feel compelled to create. Dorothy Sayers (a 20th century writer I love) said that for people who create “periods of creative activity are those in which they feel right with themselves and the world” and that seems true to me. I think when we connect with a piece of art there is this sense of all being ‘right’ with the world as well. For a moment we are pulled out of ourselves. We recognise something about our universe, something that is true or beautiful or confronting. Even if it’s just the perfect combination of colours on canvas. Life sinks away. Time stops. And I guess that’s why we love art. It’s the gift of a brief and blessed relief from our personal concerns, the gift of immersion in something apart from ourselves.
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