My Creative Processes:
The theme of much of my work develops during the sketching process.
Once a theme is decided, detailing is added and then colour if required.
Cityscape Jerusalem
The Colonialist
So There You Are
A Second Process:
We know that artists have changed the colours of a work by using different techniques and media such as silk-screen, etching, Lino cuts, wood block & more.
My interest differed. I wanted to know and understand how different colours affect a viewer's response to the same work. A computer monitor became a canvas and apps became my brush, paints, pastels, inks and pencils. All this led to the OPUS Series.
In a recent "MIT Technology Review" June 18th 2024 article "Why Artists are becoming less scared of AI" by Melissa Heikkila.... "...right now, we are in a moment where we are deciding how much creative power we are comfortable giving AI companies and tools..........at one of the largest events for creatives in Europe, and the message I got from those I spoke to was that AI is too glitchy and unreliable to fully replace humans and is best used instead as a tool to augment human creativity".
Would the great Masters have used modern technology if it had been available? I believe they would have; think Warhol and Hockney.
OPUS 37 - BK
OPUS 37 - GY
OPUS 146 - BE
To me art is everywhere, in the formations of trees and rocks, in the lines, shadows and details of a building, in the graffiti on street walls, on advertising billboards and packaging, in a child’s drawing, in a doodle. Architect Louis Khan said "The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building".
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"Stained Glass" Doors
When in Israel in 1967 I was fortunate to spend a day with my cousin "decorating" the windows of a house he had designed.
On my return to South Africa, I convinced my parents to allow me to "decorate" the entrance doors of the hotel's dining room.
I used the same technique I had learned in Israel & my parents never disowned me.
Abstraction:
I have always flirted with Abstract Art and find myself often crossing over to this form. As I continue on this journey in Abstraction, I have spent wonderful times discovering what I can create without emotion or reality.
Let the creation be a visual and cerebral experience of colour, shapes, forms and texture.
OPUS 85
My work is in Private Collections in Canada, Australia, South Africa, US, Israel, Germany & England.