daren
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Location | Harrogate, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | 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. |
| Interests | making art, making money from art, |
| Favorite music | if it moves me somehow, or catches my attention, if it bugs me, or makes me remember, what i am listening to right now, i hate the music in lifts and in supermarkets, saturday morning telly, but in 10 or 20 years when i hear it, i'll love it, it'll remind me of a different time, |
| Favorite books | argos catalogue, ikea catalogue, i liked harry potter i suppose, when i was a teenager i read a load of jeffrey archer books, but is it a favOUrite book? no, Looking at my book shelves, i like books which match, a series of books on various artists and themes, erm, national geographic mamgazines, i got about a hundred all lined up on a shelf, its a really nice yellow on those spines, and the title, it's nice, i read them too sometimes, |