I'm an Australian artist and I predominatly paint or draw but also use photoshop etc to play with photos or to see what may potentionally become a painting and sound out my ideas. As I slowly add more and more images I hope you will give me plenty of feedback.BIO We live in a time where technology has become so advanced that you no longer even need a camera to produce amazing images. For the commercial world technology is the future, for it will embrace this new medium with open arms, however I am constantly amazed at the number of artists that still use traditional mediums and methods simply because they want to.
I am one of those people, who has a compelling desire that borders on an insane obsession to paint and draw. My pictures, although appearing realistic and simple at first glance become more complex the more you delve into the image and also create a story or better still raise questions.
I like to draw the viewer in, trap them with curiosity until they think what the hell is going on here. Sometimes my work is politically motivated, or pure fantasy Sometimes I know exactly what Im going to paint, or I just start and let the trained eye slowly pick that stroke of paint or colour that is forming an interesting direction or composition. I just play on those bits until the story seems to just come out of the brush. The description I feel most comfortable with is
surrealist, as I paint in a realistic manner but the situation may be totally unrealistic. I like the fact that I can create a world that does not exist but comes from imagination. I believe imagination is the key to society because it enables us to see the future and create it or divert it.
My traditional academic and self taught skills, enables me to paint in a manner that is universally understood and the skill and dedication is clearly visible to the viewer, something that is not seen enough these days. My paintings do not need a long, superlative filled pretencious description. I feel so many contemporary paintings are no more than decorative patterns designed to match the curtains. Galleries are filled with this meaningless pumped out decor with very little pride and skill attached, this is simply flooding the art world, purchased solely because the gallery owners say it is good art.
My aim is to bring art back to the people. The people who purchase it not because they know good art or bad art but because they know what they like and can see the human endeavour and desire that went into creating it. This is one of the principal objectives of the Zooid Art Movement of which I am a founding member.
Painting has been and still is a successful way of recording history, but I feel it is also an integral part of human endeavour, the need to achieve excellence in creation.
Graeme W. Balchin
Comments (24)
Belladzines
fantastic! love the details
rudiruth
excellent work! best wishes from germany ;)
JnM92
The eyes are lovely, great!!!
xcentricity
Very Sexy! Great painting!
A_
love her face and light. the pose is very good too. wonderful painting, love how you did all the different surfaces.
MrBacardi
this is really fantastic work :)
drmuscle
G man you just blow me away this is an awesome work
Rockdog
Awesome image, Very sexy looking.
Elminster_ZK
Cool... very lifelike and colourful.
Fidelity2
The angle and eyes direction are superb. Over-all she is beautiful. And the technique is flawless. Superb image.
ARTWITHIN
Strikingly beautiful. I love the highlighting. The model is perfect for this work.
mmirnii
fantastic piece of art!
Redshift
Fantastic image!
RussellAustin
great painting, i envy your steady hand for line work...
eucrow
Wow! is she any relation to Vlad the impaler?
Succubi_Lullaby
Wow graeme, this is awesome, its my 15 minutes of fame haha, i love it. Ill come down when i have a spare minute, and i might be able to come to the meeting monday, ill tlk to u about it later. I LOVE THIS PAINTING :d WELL DONE
royc8
Superb painting!!
kenmo
Awesome....
MOOOW
Superb artwork love it!!!you are very talented artist my dear friend!!!!!V
cornelp
Gorgeous, just gorgeous. Love it.
birthunicorn
VERY SEXY
graemeb
Thanks everyone for the comments.
waheednasir
yep i like it too, interesting palette used...:).
Hawk23
Beautiful work and so is she!