A Fresh Start

David A. Sharman

I have been working towards a period in my life when I was happy with the way that my paintings were going.  I have always been someone who is hyper critical of my work, be it written, painted or photographed.  I spend a lot of time looking for inspiration in different places, from the internet to my surroundings.  I have watched a lot of documentaries on art which have had an impact on my work.  From the St. Ives Artists to the Abstract Expressionist artists of America but out of all the art and styles of art I have been attracted to I have always liked abstraction and those who are able to show their emotions that are employed on the canvas.

This does not mean to say that I don't like other styles of painting, although some leave me cold, I have to say that I am a fan of Turner and some of his later works which do have a large abstract feeling to them.  Other artists that I am attracted to are simply because of their lifestyle and the work that they produce under difficult circumstances, such as Pollock for example.  I have always looked beyond the art and at the artist as well.  For me this is just as important to try to understand why a piece was constructed just as much as the finished product.

I am not sure any more that I have a lot to say about my art, but I will with this blog try to explain how a piece comes about and what I am trying to say to a certain degree, but for the most colours are dictated by emotion and mood.  There is if I am honest with myself a large amount of randomness with each recent piece that is left to the viewer to make their mind up how the end piece effects them and how it conveys a message to them.

As I have said I needed to take a long walk with my art, going through a huge collage phase that become at the end of it very unsatisfying because of the lack of control of the end product having to use found images all the time.  With abstract art, the eye and hand control the end product and it has to be said that this produces a better result for me.  With the option of using art as therapy which is important to me I have a chance to make sure that I am producing art that makes me happy, the darker colours of life are something that I stray away from, black is a colour that these days I hardly use.  I know that it will make a visit to the canvas when I am happy that it is used for it's effect and not an emotion which is dark inside me.

With all this in mind it is fair to say that nothing before 2012 will be displayed on this blog and that the road less travelled is calling me to kick the dust off my shoes and show the world how I have developed a style that I am proud of and am willing to show the world.

David A. Sharman

June 2012