LOST SOUL ASIDE WALLPAPER HOW TO

When the light is right for me, that which gives strong cast shadows and emphasises tonal definition, I am ready to go exploring at a moments notice. Armed with a small pad, drawing kit, camera, and tape measure to record size and scale. Subject hunting trips are usually frantic and fast paced expeditions. This reverential approach is very much born out of the respect I feel for the subjects that call me. Thinking about the subject whilst exploring its ‘construction’ through drawing, and refining and rehearsing passages that stretch my abilities as a painter, provides my constant motivation. Totally fascinated with the technical challenges that pure watercolour painting presents my working method requires patience and preparation. I aim to record what is seen and felt in a subject as accurately and realistically as possible, believing that any finished painting should attempt to transcend a mere visual experience and reach out to the viewer in a stimulating, emotional, and engaging way. My medium of preference is watercolour, and I am a purist in the sense that mainly transparent pigment is used, and white paint avoided. Paintings made in my artists personal zone where time has no meaning, where love of the world we pass through is somehow encapsulated in the brief remnants we leave behind.

I knew then that my life was forever changed and would be shaped by a love of art. We went to the Tate Gallery and there I was confronted for the first time with the great master works of Turner. Seeing the effect this small tin of colours had on me, as an extra treat I was taken on a day trip to London to “see the art”. Rolls of old wallpaper cut into squares became my practice ground as I became lost in a world of vibrant colours and endless imagined possibilities.

LOST SOUL ASIDE WALLPAPER HOW TO

I had no idea how to use them or what to do. My reward on my birthday was a tin of watercolour paints, one that I still have. Add to this the wonderful landscape peopled with hard working farming communities and their machines, this is the place I am proud to call home and one that inspires me every day to play a part in its journey.Īs a 5 year old boy I often “helped” my Grandmother in her sweet shop. Remnants of the historic past, discarded work places, a rich socio Rural / Industrial mix where nature is busy reclaiming that which man has abandoned or cast aside. It provides so much artistic stimulation that the problem is having the time to get it all down. My name is David Poxon, and my home in rural Shropshire, England, near the historic Severn valley, was the birthplace of Britain’s Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century. What we paint is so much influenced by where we happen to be and the environment we grow up in.

Lost soul aside wallpaper