I am fortunate to have lived a life of change, inconvenient and seemingly uneccessary though some were the lesson for me was to go with the flow and to find my own path in that forward motion.
Now, as an artist, the lessons learned are the rockbed and foundations of my working practice.
It is said that people are in our lives for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime and I equate to this in my take on art and creativity, there must be a reason to create there must be a Season to work in and all must lead toward a lifetimes work. Emphasis for me is on the Season, a project, a research period, an inspiring thought or purpose, a period of physical work, these all have shut off periods, a shelf life if you wish.
During this seasonal time work and experience grow and with it the elements of imagination and ability and not until the end near is it that the next step can be seen, the next step can be either to continue along this path and expand to another level or, which is often the case, to take what is learned and move in a different direction, it has been this constant ebb and flow of change which has brought me a particular style which embraces all that I have learned and been added to, a collaborative mission of past and present.
Both as people and as artists we grow when change takes place, the trick is understanding the implications and knock on effects, the hurdles that may come and the things we have to put into place to combat difficulties and hurdles that lie ahead, Newton was more philosopher than scientist when he penned his theories of motion and stated that for everything there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Work will always show the way forward, it is not something that we have to consider in great detail we are just responsible for making that change happen, it can be as dramatic as a studio refit to accomodate sculpture and 3D work from that of a painting studio or, as slight as finding a particular colour shape or form that you react to and feel that need to progress further, if it feels good keep it, be flexible to change and ever move forward!
Now, as an artist, the lessons learned are the rockbed and foundations of my working practice.
It is said that people are in our lives for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime and I equate to this in my take on art and creativity, there must be a reason to create there must be a Season to work in and all must lead toward a lifetimes work. Emphasis for me is on the Season, a project, a research period, an inspiring thought or purpose, a period of physical work, these all have shut off periods, a shelf life if you wish.
During this seasonal time work and experience grow and with it the elements of imagination and ability and not until the end near is it that the next step can be seen, the next step can be either to continue along this path and expand to another level or, which is often the case, to take what is learned and move in a different direction, it has been this constant ebb and flow of change which has brought me a particular style which embraces all that I have learned and been added to, a collaborative mission of past and present.
Both as people and as artists we grow when change takes place, the trick is understanding the implications and knock on effects, the hurdles that may come and the things we have to put into place to combat difficulties and hurdles that lie ahead, Newton was more philosopher than scientist when he penned his theories of motion and stated that for everything there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Work will always show the way forward, it is not something that we have to consider in great detail we are just responsible for making that change happen, it can be as dramatic as a studio refit to accomodate sculpture and 3D work from that of a painting studio or, as slight as finding a particular colour shape or form that you react to and feel that need to progress further, if it feels good keep it, be flexible to change and ever move forward!
