To art - a noun I’ve forced to become a verb to express the vague and expansive nature of my relationship with drawing, painting and more.
It’s a question that makes me laugh to myself sometimes when I realise that the skill of arting is really kinda ridiculous. To think that I should be so obsessed with trying to capture something I see on a piece of paper, and that I should choose THAT to be my life’s work is really quite funny. And yet it is a skill that eternally delights us as humans.
It is this delight that I enjoy when I draw and paint. It’s capturing the ‘something’ that I see, so that someone else looks at it and sees it too. To use a very fancy word, it is the ‘verisimilitude’ that gets me excited. I think largely it’s because it is when we both see the certain ‘something’ there is an instantaneous moment of connection and understanding that skips the need for words. When we see it, we smile to ourselves because we feel it deep in our bones, and we know that someone else somewhere sees it too. Or did. Or will.
Something just makes sense about that art that we’re looking at. It is this moment of understanding that I want to create so that others can feel it too.
It’s why in a way I think that people who buy my art, or follow my social media, or read this post, have connected with part of me already. I’ve seen it. You’ve seen it.
From my art you’ll understand that I love to capture movement and character - animals are some of the best subjects for this. You’ll understand also that I love detail as much as I love simplicity and I am always looking for the balance between the two. I’m a keen observer, and I love there to be a level of accuracy in my drawing that I find very satisfying. I hope you do too. And I’m playful with colour too, a skill that I’m not so confident in yet but it’s one that I’m determined to master.
Overall I’m obsessed with life. Every drawing begins with a thrill of potential discovery - and sometimes I don’t find it. Increasingly, though, the more I draw, the more I do find it.