mrsmith

ABOUT

Location

Durham UK

Born	Blackpool 1963

Gender

Male

Member

Standard

Joined

May 2011

Interests

art, classic cars, live music, collecting records/art

Gary is a gardener by trade 8 years ago he hatched a plan in his head to do something he had always wanted to do something for himself, so he started on a journey to become an artist. Gary was born in 1963 in a seaside town in the northwest of England, even at a young age he aspired to be an artist always entering various things not always winning.
About 8 years ago he left a well paid job and went to college to start from scratch
taking exams that finally cumulated in a degree from Sunderland university.
Gary's inspirations come in many guises he loves nature and he is interested in the human mind, he is an abstract artist but at the same time a fine artist, he is a surrealist but at the same time a realist.

Painting is my key to freedom, my release and my way of expressing myself.
I work in acrylic and ink on canvas and paper, my ideas flow from my mind onto the blank surface to form abstract patterns and layers of colour.
Colour is like a large space cavernous and expansive, with many hues and pigments that reach out in an endless struggle against one another each hue trying to outdo the others.
Ink runs into each other to form rivers of colour an untamed tide of spectrum rainbows.
My work evolves over several hours building up layers of colour, allowing what happens on the canvas during this process to determine the evolution of the work.
I do not have any hidden messages in my work, no meanings, there is an idea in my head a faint plan, but..... when I start I let the colours speak for themselves. I am directed by colour itself.

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