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Study of a Wasteland
Acrylic and Pastel on Canvas - 24 x 30 inches - 2008
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Artist Statement
for Mark S J Shirley ( BA HONS )
for Mark S J Shirley ( BA HONS )
Hi, I'm Mark, I teach Painting and Drawing to people with Mental Health Difficulties.
I achieved a BA (HONS )at Coventry University - in the UK - and learnt fuck all!
I'm Inspired by Language ( painterly and verbal ) Facial Expressions, Movement,Time, the Surreal and Colour.
I'm a figurative painter, who treads the fine line between figuration and abstraction.
My working mediums consist of acrylic, pastel & mixed media.
I love the process of painting, and the gestures it reflects back at me. Much of my work relies on accident & chance. How I develop it depends on what is presented before me,out of the chaos I create.
The subject matter usually consists of ' The Human condition ' and something that underscores social commentary, with the added anchor of wit and irony, but I don’t claim to be a mouthpiece for society, and I’m not trying to be moral or to tell a story.
Within my working practice, I find the problem being :
' trying to convey fact, in an non - illustrational way '
I advocate this quote, and despise illustration - it has no soul!
Please feel free to contact me regarding anything you may wish to ask, but not share on this site:
artypoet@msn.com
Favourite Artists - :
Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Walter Sickert, De - Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn.
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This Day Last Year
Beautiful color and composition!!
Thanks,
Wayne
Your work is awesome. I love the colors in this piece and the way you have balanced them so perfectly. Beautiful!
5*****
Thank you so much for your comment
Your works do captivate, and I like how you experiment and work contradictions Alison...Mark x
outstanding balance colors ... 5 *
This was one of the first paintings I uploaded on here, and has been asleep for quite a while....glad you woke it up!!
I can easily see why this painting of yours won awards. I like it very much. Wanda Russell