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THE DETAILS ARE SKETCHY

I make really basic, crude line drawings and sketches that are often incorporated into paintings or find their way into works on paper.The mark making is done quickly and often just begins with a line that has no particular place to go. As Paul Klee said: "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." And sometimes, there's a basic idea and the ima...

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…FASCINATION AND INTEREST

I think it's really important to devour culture, to soak, immerse, pickle and rinse your self in the stuff! Here are a few things that have I have approached with fascination and interest. It all goes into the artistic mix; it feeds, nourishes and without it I shall wither!ARTJean-Michel Basquiat — Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Ornamental Despair ...

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ORNAMENTAL DESPAIR (PAINTING FOR IAN CURTIS)

Two weeks ago I visited the Musée d'Orsay, Paris to see Orsay through the Eyes of Julian Schnabel (as well as the Van Gogh's), as I quite like a lot of Schnabel's work.The gallery had asked Schnabel to give an interpretation of their collection, by presenting, in two of the museum's historic rooms, a new scenography and a selection of works that ha...

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