A Bird With the Word Came to Me

My obsession with rappers, singers and other musicians continues here in this portrait of Anderson Paak. I commenced this work in 2018 and its the fist i have finished in 2019, its fitting that its this person who I completed as the fist painting of the new year, his music is constantly changing expanding into new genres. I left teaching in 2018 and am now working solely as an artist, this is me expanding my horizon, my genre if you will. Paak is someone ive been listening to a lot lately, perhaps its because his music has helped sooth me through my transition away from teacher and towards artist. I felt some what of a debt to him in a weird way, so I did my usual thing and stalked the abyss that is the internet to locate an image that i felt best reflects him as a person. This is Anderson Paak

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.