Entered into the John Moores Painting Prize 2012

We all have dreams as a child. We dream of becoming super heroes like Superman, Batman or other characters of fantasy realms. We are told to dream as a child, both from the media on the television to, as we grow older, schools and establishments telling you that you can achieve anything your heart desires and the way to do it is to get a really good education, progress with good grades, go to university, get a degree and that is bound to help you get a better future. Put £20,000 of your future “possible” earnings into an education  ..surely, that would help you get the perfect job…wouldn’t it? Continue ““Hold On” : Acrylic on my old secondary school door by JA Wilson”

Release is a painting I produced in late 2011 that I was inspired to paint after having a vivid dream. In the dream I was somewhere hot, the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky and I remember walking along a street passing by what looked like a type of mall, located close to a beach…the shops were all constructed out of wood and painted white with an open arcade street through the middle of the mall with the sun beating down on a cobbled floor. Continue “Release : Acrylic on Canvas – 2011”

One evening when I was fast asleep in bed dreaming whatever it is we creative types dream I disturbed my then, partners sleep by sitting bolt upright in bed and saying “1000 year old tree” and then laying back down in bed again, unaware that I had said anything at all, my partner was obviously quite freaked out ( as you would be ) and made me aware of what I had said in the night to which I just chuckled. I felt I had to find this tree and visit it at some time in the future. Continue “Soul Tree – Enlightenment Conceptual Meaning”

Last week my colleagues and I ventured to Norwich City the home of Norwich Cathedral ( and Norwich Football Club of course, but we all know Liverpool FC are the only english football team to support 😉 ) for our christmas meal..yes, you may have realised that last week it was 25th January and Christmas day is 25th December. Regardless, we all had a fantastic time ( and yes I got a little drunk ) and it was great getting to meet the team from the other sector of the business. Continue “Norwich Cathedral Photography”

This has been a long debated question, can everyone paint? Art through the centuries has been a very elitist environment and as an amateur artist, a very hard industry to break into as a profession. Becoming a successful artist doesn’t mean you need to be as high quality as Leonardo Da Vinci himself in showing accurate representations of life, but instead it is more important that you are highly linguistic, confident and lastly, a good salesman, able to sell a dead sheep’s crap to the upper class toffs for a few thousand pounds, then you know you are a successful artist. Continue “Can everyone paint?”

So what does art represent?

Art representation is an interesting subject. Many times I have heard a person say “thats a pretty picture”..”wow, that picture looks real!” In my opinion, that is not what art is about. Now I am maybe going to sound really deep and cliché but for me …art is an expression of the soul. Continue “What does Art Represent?”