I use Photoshop and Illustrator to create highly stylized highly detailed digital collages. In cheeky humor, I generate a sophisticated, complex layered architecture of scanned analog drawing, vector drawing, digital painting and photography to fuse crisp stylized graphics with painterly imprecision. Exaggerated, precisely delineated, graphic detail ( native to, and indicative of, digital creation) synthesize with loose, seemingly uncontrolled, drawing. Primitive simplicity, madcap mid-century cartoon expressiveness, and hard edge futurism, meld to form wry fairytales and other hauntingly odd and funny visions.
My artwork is inspired and informed mainly by
• Indian Rajput and Mughal Paintings
• Buddhist Tangka paintings
• Kamasan paintings from Java and Bali, Indonesia
• Surrealism
• Abstract Expressionism
• Mid-Century Cartoons
• Folk Art
• Rauschenberg
• Miro
• DeChiricho
• Jacob Lawrence
• Larry Rivers
• Tex Avery
Fusing crisp stylized graphics with painterly imprecision, I generate a sophisticated, complex layered architecture of scanned analog drawing, vector drawing, digital painting and photography to simulate the chaotic disjointed quality of modern existence.
Fine line and hard edge interlace with highly nuanced marks, rubs, and erasures. Exquisitely finessed, meticulously detailed passages disintegrate to what appears to be haphazard expanses. Rarefied and refined portions devolve to irregular and conspicuously crude elements. Random accidents allowed. Outwardly unrelated ill fit bits sheer, shift, and crystallize into deceptively simple, purposefully inexact, multi-faceted sur-reality.
In rich gem-like color and tone, zany, abstracted figures coalesce. Wrathful Buddhas rise. Teasing Djinns fade. Celestial deities, predatory, primordial phantasms and fantastical fat ogres battle drones, mow lawns and watch TV. Dark jungle demons, with bulging eyes, barbed beaks and serrated teeth - and other eternal creatures try to make sense of mundane tasks and ever changing technology.
Via jaunty, buoyant wit, a bent for unusual and unexpected juxtapositions, apparently incongruous elements harden into sublime compositions filled with delightful inventive twists.
Others regularly describe as; brilliant, creative, absolutely super cool, fascinating, relevant, understandable and visually engaging, (with) a wealth of richness and color and texture and storytelling.
I create new artwork every day and am always adding to the shop, so check back often!
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