David Graham Watkins. Paintings
Paintings and other works by David Graham Watkins, Painter and Musician from Wales, UK.
The Paintings are the result of different stimuli. They can be a Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the landscape, or they can exist through a more direct response to the things that I see, feel, hear and know. They may be figurative, or abstraction, landscape based, memory influenced or spiritually influenced. They can also be a more direct result of simple observation, or the product of an inner vision that determines only the beginning of a piece of work, as the act of Drawing and Painting will then direct its own course as a piece of work develops toward completion.
Painting, for me, can be all these things.
Painting can often be far removed from any purely visual stimulus; instead the Paintings exist through an emotion or experience that suggests either a complete image, or at least a fragment of an idea. Embracing all of these things as a starting point, I work towards producing a visual interpretation of my thoughts, emotions, experiences and existence. Very often the Painting becomes the Painter, as the emerging image entices and guides me, the Painter, as its source of completion.
This Website is still under construction and will therefore change day by day. It will eventually contain Galleries for Paintings; Watercolour, Pen and Ink; Prints, Drawings and Photographs.
It will be a place to link to other websites, other artists; it will be a source of information and stories about The Upper Rhondda Drummers' Association; it will also be about Drums and Music as well as Art and my own practice.
The Paintings are the result of different stimuli. They can be a Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the landscape, or they can exist through a more direct response to the things that I see, feel, hear and know. They may be figurative, or abstraction, landscape based, memory influenced or spiritually influenced. They can also be a more direct result of simple observation, or the product of an inner vision that determines only the beginning of a piece of work, as the act of Drawing and Painting will then direct its own course as a piece of work develops toward completion.
Painting, for me, can be all these things.
Painting can often be far removed from any purely visual stimulus; instead the Paintings exist through an emotion or experience that suggests either a complete image, or at least a fragment of an idea. Embracing all of these things as a starting point, I work towards producing a visual interpretation of my thoughts, emotions, experiences and existence. Very often the Painting becomes the Painter, as the emerging image entices and guides me, the Painter, as its source of completion.
This Website is still under construction and will therefore change day by day. It will eventually contain Galleries for Paintings; Watercolour, Pen and Ink; Prints, Drawings and Photographs.
It will be a place to link to other websites, other artists; it will be a source of information and stories about The Upper Rhondda Drummers' Association; it will also be about Drums and Music as well as Art and my own practice.
