Calliope
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Collage, Oil paint, Oil bar and oil pencil on canvas.
150cm x 110cm.
Calliope is the goddess muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology. She walked into my studio, hands filled with poetry books and fresh clean pages, after a good friend of mine saw a large, half-finished painting on the wall and thought of Calliope. I knew she was right, and suddenly a new direction opened for this piece.
This painting, Calliope, began to signify to me the importance of true creative connection; the kind you nurture and fight for daily, the sort you immerse yourself in, give time to, obsess about. A path that builds and grows with you. A real creative connection that exists in opposition to the recent trends of shortcuts and A.I tools that bypass someone's own creative path to instead use other artists'. The willingness to embrace chaos, mess and the unexpected delights of failure.
The Muses still gather. The journey matters.
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Collage, Oil paint, Oil bar and oil pencil on canvas.
150cm x 110cm.
Calliope is the goddess muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology. She walked into my studio, hands filled with poetry books and fresh clean pages, after a good friend of mine saw a large, half-finished painting on the wall and thought of Calliope. I knew she was right, and suddenly a new direction opened for this piece.
This painting, Calliope, began to signify to me the importance of true creative connection; the kind you nurture and fight for daily, the sort you immerse yourself in, give time to, obsess about. A path that builds and grows with you. A real creative connection that exists in opposition to the recent trends of shortcuts and A.I tools that bypass someone's own creative path to instead use other artists'. The willingness to embrace chaos, mess and the unexpected delights of failure.
The Muses still gather. The journey matters.
Acrylic, Spray Paint, Collage, Oil paint, Oil bar and oil pencil on canvas.
150cm x 110cm.
Calliope is the goddess muse of epic poetry in Greek mythology. She walked into my studio, hands filled with poetry books and fresh clean pages, after a good friend of mine saw a large, half-finished painting on the wall and thought of Calliope. I knew she was right, and suddenly a new direction opened for this piece.
This painting, Calliope, began to signify to me the importance of true creative connection; the kind you nurture and fight for daily, the sort you immerse yourself in, give time to, obsess about. A path that builds and grows with you. A real creative connection that exists in opposition to the recent trends of shortcuts and A.I tools that bypass someone's own creative path to instead use other artists'. The willingness to embrace chaos, mess and the unexpected delights of failure.
The Muses still gather. The journey matters.