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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

you know there are good things in life when you see 20ft room made of bottle crates in a serious gallery. sometimes i look at art and can't even want to work out the whats and whys...it is just a good thing.

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Matt said...: sure you didn't take a wrong turn throgh the bottle yard?; 9/23/2004 3:39 PM
daren said...: wow. a comment....ta.
FYI....the Longside Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture park is showing Anthoney Gormley's 'Field for The British Isles' which must surely be a contender for his seminal work...; 10/02/2004 1:54 PM

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Name: daren

Location: Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

I believe that a passion for narrative and subject is an essential pre-requisite for a successful painting. If the artist feels ambivalent about whatever is captured in a photograph, a sketchbook or on canvas how can they hope to have any impact on those who see the final piece? Without authority the artist will leave his audience frustrated or worse, indifferent. Communicating mood & emotion are my most important motivators for making images. I’ve never been overly concerned with technical perfection or producing an accurate pictorial record of a subject or a location. For me the heart of painting and photography is to capture and communicate an atmosphere and what I’m feeling, as much (if not more) than what I see at the time of painting. If my paintings, sketches and photography speak to the viewer on an emotional level then I have succeeded in my work.

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