Acrylic on canvas.
36x36"
“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see”
– John Lennon
It is so much easier to be happy and live a more content life if we shut our eyes to what is around us. Especially at the moment.
But is that who we want to be. Closing our eyes to what is going on in the world. Closing our eyes to others’ suffering. Closing our eyes to the changes in the world and what they mean. Closing our eyes to the problems our friends are going through. Closing our eyes to the things that are difficult and not our problem. Closing our eyes to the things that are inconvenient because they bring us down.
It is much easier to exist just for ourselves, to block out anything negative around us, but perhaps our lives are the emptier for it.
Recently I have shown my work at The Offices of the Lieutenant Governor, TOAF, TAP, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Art Gallery of Northumberland, ADC Fine Art (Cincinatti), Dignam Gallery, and John B Aird Gallery.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work is about our humanity, and also the lack of it. It's about how we strive to keep it and about how others try to take it away. It's about what makes us human: our flaws and our strengths. To be human is live imperfectly, but to be capable of greatness.
Bold Type, my latest collection does this by celebrating the art of typography, these acrylic paintings explore the abstract patterns our words create. I feature my favourite pieces of text. It can be a favourite phrase, just a word, perhaps a song lyric, sometimes a meaningful quote.
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