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Pigment
Philosophy of life: 
"‘Those who live in the next century will see better.’ Edouard Manet"
Lives in:
,United Kingdom
Joined eSnips on Aug. 27 2006
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About me
My work comes from life; painting always has been my reaction to life’s experiences. It is the expression of my character, style and personal identity. Presently I imagine my paintings in the world of modern technology; wondering how relevant painting is in our digital age? This grows out of the apprehension I sense about the development of art and the influence of technology on culture as a whole. How can painting reposition itself in relation to image production in our technological age? I have notified the ways technology changes the way art is produced, disseminated, and valued, and how new art forms, new tools for representation and new conditions for communication were generated. I want to be part of the change and be carried by new directions of current visual influences. As a contemporary painter I am not prejudice of the past and believe that painting is still possible. Although painting cannot any longer be somehow ‘itself’, I suggest a re-assessment that painting can be more than paint on a plane surface. Living in the 21st century, I am witnessing the digital revolution: a major technical and cultural shift and I hope to shed some new light on what Painting can do and cannot do to subsist. 
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Domestics
Painting is something visible and a certain way of interpreting our reality, it is also like a language. For me my reality was given by Expressionism. Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism always has been most significant and it can be described as every sensation I can feel. Painting is about this reality.
Visitors: 3037
Communities: Electronic
Tags: contemporary , art , expanded , domestic , houses , windows , corners , house , window , corner
 
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Expanded Canvas
Presently I imagine my paintings in the world of modern technology; wondering how relevant painting is in our digital age? This grows out of the apprehension I sense about the development of art and the influence of technology on culture as a whole. How can painting reposition itself in relation to image production in our technological age?
Visitors: 1782
Communities: Painting
Tags: contemporary , expanded , field , painting , oil , acrylic , canvas , mixed , media , combined
 
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Shadow Drawings
In previous years I have been exploring formal and spatial relationships between painting practice and drawing. I used journeys to produce a series of small paintings and drawings on paper in the form of a diary.
Visitors: 1299
Communities: Painting
Tags: drawing , drawings , paper , pen , pencil , water , ink , shadow , small
 
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Experimental Paintings
Style is a reference to creativity and comes in all possible media. As a contemporary painter it is not important to consider style. No more than in creativity, style and content is formed by the way we think and feel. ‘The style reflects and projects the “inner form” of collective thinking and feeling’. Style is simply the unconscious by-product of the artistic endeavor. Style happens and can be a risk for art not to be itself.
Visitors: 1006
Communities: Painting
Tags: paintings , painting , nightfall , oil , acrylic , canvas , expressive , modern_paintings , contemporary_paintings , moody
 
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Animations
Animation to me is the art of motion, and art in motion. It is that which gives a still-image its life. I can create time and the illusion of life with aspects of poetry and music. It is through a succession of frames in time that visuals become organic metaphors imbued with symbolic meaning, becoming stories and experiences that reveal our individual and collective imagination. It brings my dreams, myths and memories to life.
Visitors: 937
Communities: Animation , Painting
Tags: animation , animations , cut-out , plasticine , drawings , technology , stop-frame
 
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130 Arlington Rd
‘130 Arlington Rd' is a series of four paintings installed in each corner of the exhibition room. In each corner there is my example of a setting from a living space, e.g. bathroom, staircase or living room. Some of the views look into the corners while others look out, exploring and reflecting the relationship between exterior and interior, between public and private.
Visitors: 868
Communities: Painting , Experimental Art , Video
Tags: expanded , canvas , contemporary , experimental , corners , art , new , movie , paintings , shadows
 
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Photography
Visitors: 802
Communities: Photography
Tags: photography , colour , non_painting , abstract , macro , close , up
 
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Combined Paintings
We live at a time of great change, of protest and different opinions. We are aware that ‘something new’ always is happening around us, but we are not always aware of seeing its challenge immediately. Historically we are aware of the tremendous transformation that has come over the arts over the last centuries. But more and more can be understood and artists are getting better and better in overcoming new ‘intimidation’ and with this its ‘painterly’ challenges.
Visitors: 636
Communities: Painting , Experimental Art
Tags: paintings , painting , combined , collage , experimental , expressive , oil , canvas , media , pluralism
 
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Berdun
In 2001 I visited Berdun, Spain to paint architecture, space and living conditions. The village Berdun offered sensational inspiration and I focused closely on doors and entries to houses. I was particular interested in the abstract existence of space in domestic environment.
Visitors: 545
Communities: Experimental Art , Painting
Tags: experimental , contemporary , expanded , field , expressive , paper , rooms , painting , media , mixed
 
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Everyday
Visitors: 542
Communities: Painting
Tags: art , paintings , painting , day , days , everyday , oil , acrylic , paper , sketchbook
 
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Houses
Hinterhoefe in Berlin: I visited Berlin to paint this particular space and unique conditions. I explored different experiences being mostly captured by invisible movement and sound around me. Clement Greenberg once described Marc Chagall as 'being born into paint, into the paint, into the picture, with his clumsiness and all.' I feel just like this.
Visitors: 495
Communities: Painting
Tags: Berlin , collage , paint , fabric , texture , expanded , field , painting , expressive , modern
 
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Contextual Studies
How many times have I heard about painting 'being dead'? Why does the painter still paint though?
Visitors: 478
Communities: Photography
Tags: essays , style , combined_paintings , pluralism , modern , photography , art , manet
 
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Machinima
Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies. In an expanded definition, it is the convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development. Machinima is real-world filmmaking techniques applied within an interactive virtual space where characters and events can be either controlled by humans, scripts or artificial intelligence.
Visitors: 462
Communities: Video
Tags: machinima , second , life , film , avatar , virtual , world
 
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Shadow Dance
Stills taken in Greece
Visitors: 430
Communities: Animation
Tags: shadow , dance , shadows , movement , music , animated , animation
 
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dialogues
A two month residency that allows me to travel between Tasmania's Queenstown and New Zealand's Queenstown.
Visitors: 218
 
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saldo writes:
hi: i put on 3 new piclets.
Added on Sep. 14 2007
dadaJUNK writes:
i think (maybe) i come from the same fine art background
as yourself and have (and am) asking the same kind of
questions. your domestics, for instance, involve (in
their making) direct physical involvement (and
all that that entails.) also, when the creative tearing,
glueing, and head-butting is over, you are left with a real,
tangible thing. of course, all of this production could be done
throught the use of a computer and the utility of various soft
ware. but the center of this discussion now revolves around
the fact that, at the completion of such computer production,
no thing, that is capable of occupying space and time (and
is capable of collecting real dust) exists. in fact, what you are
left with is 'information' disembodied and floating in the ether,
god knows where. as regards style; the new possibilities
of computer production break (or possibly should) with all previous
styles. last thoughts: you can sell a painting. it has a place in the
tangible world. usually upon a wall. you can make a living. you can
wear paint spattered jeans through the street. but if all your
production is stored upon a computer. you've got a whole lot
of new questions. if jackson pollock had had a computer he would
never have had to clean up after himself. these are just a few of
the questions. there are books to be written on this. like all of
your stuff, by the way. bye for now. dadaJUNK. possibly an old style
ready for a new computer regeneration. are art galleries, museums
for dead art; just ripe for converting into computer cafe's, by naive
but enthusiastic civic authorities.
Added on Sep. 12 2007
saldo writes:
Ja I am... please come and see my latest visual art update. Doing it now. As uszh, your stuff is AMAZING! Intel and insightful....p
Added on Aug. 2 2007
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What's your favorite book?
Dictionary and travel guides
What's your favorite movie?
Peter and the Wolf
What's your favorite food or cuisine?
fresh food, home cooked or from a market
What's your favorite sport?
swimming, running, hikking, cycling
What country would you like to visit?
All 194
Who is your hero (real or fictional)?
David Bowie
What was the most significant event in your life?
Peace
What's the one thing you've always wanted to do?
Travel the world 100 times

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