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Under the Influence Published by Faine Contemporary Art 2010
The first influence was Matt Bruce, my art teacher at Varndean Grammar; it was he who ignited in me an interest in art. To his chagrin I became, like so many other teenagers, deeply impressed with Salvador Dali’s pictures. However when I saw my first Bacon, I realised that painting was about something far more intense and in a Damascus moment I became determined to become a painter. As well as the many famous artists' whose works I have admired and whose names appear on this print, there have been other influences perhaps less well known but equally profound. Sometimes their effect manifested itself years after leaving college, such as the lecturer who taught lettering at an evening class on my foundation course, which few of us wanted to attend as it cut into our drinking time. Derek Schiel who actually taught us how to paint, Mike Hale the screen-print lecturer at Leicester who really knew how to make prints, and most importantly Sydney Harry who knowledge and passion for colour is legendry. However I kind of owe the title of this print to Lauren Bacall with whose quotation “Never trust a man who doesn’t drink” I have, with my friend Jack Daniels, for many years totally concurred. |
Prints from 2010
