Welcome to my bio, just a few details about me.. I have been producing art since way back in the late 70's, i also compose electronic music and i'm also active in the areas of photography and Electronics, also develop material for Gliftex-Resources where i am webmaster at Gliftex Resources. I got into digital art through the use of computers in my electronic music back in the early 80s when my first dabble in art on a computer was actually with a ZX Spectrum 48K!. Eventually i started creating art on the Amiga 500 and 500+ with the famous Deluxe Paint Package series.
Eventually i started to create art on the PC platform and never looked back, i am now currently in the process of building a new portfolio site consisting of my digital art, my photography and music. My styles are varied, i don't hold to a set style and thrash it to death for years, i will always hold shape, form and colour as paramount in my work and i like to explore the conscious and non-conscious states of creation where elements of my work are open to chance events and between these two aspects i attempt to try and reach a synthesis that i consider to be a balance between reality and fantasy but not in the manner that one might use the term "Fantasy".
I will not pull punches when depicting the human nature and life in general, i like to show the beauty, the pain, the biological phobias of the human state.. the mental the physical and the spiritual of our existence. Nothing is out of bounds but i do hold some limits to the subject matters i would feel comfortable depicting. Art should not offend for the sake of offending, it should ask questions of peoples limitations upon what they might find acceptable and in so doing ultimately challenging them as to those acceptable levels.. it's down to the individual.
My abstract work will always be vibrant in colour with strong shape and form, some of these works may contain hidden visuals that require the switching between the brains hemispheres, the titles will sometimes provide a hint upon the subject for the viewers to obtain a starting point. I'm a big supporter of independent software developers who are thinking outside the box when it comes to fresh ideas regarding digital art software. I have explored 2-D and 3-D art in mixed media formats along with single media formats. I try to avoid the predictable but a wonderful landscape, seascape or skyscape will still impress and influence me deeply.
I'm also strongly inspired by fellow artists and the work they might be exploring, i try not to be too influenced by them because i strongly believe one must attempt to find some originality in one's art even if it might be difficult to be pioneering in the 21st century. I do think everyone should create in their own way in the manner they find satisfying and gain from the experience of creating and sharing one's work. In many ways art is about liking things and even if the negative response arrives, that is just as important as the positive. We often remember the shocking and the ugly in art as opposed to the beauty, it burns into our minds far deeper than any comfort of beauty in modern art, some may not agree but that's art for you. //ark...
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My other work for Gliftex Resources can be seen here..
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=Gliftex-Resources
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Comments (7)
clifftoppler
I'd say you have a lot of thumbnails hidden in the picture - and always surprising. Again you have to zoom to fully appreciate the beauty.
peedy
Another beauty with gorgeous colors. Corrie
durleybeachbum
Too much in this for me. There are probably a dozen compositions in here!
farmerC
Fantastic work/colors.
Mark-David-Rogers
Don't forget the true size of these pieces exceeds the limitations of online viewing, peoples monitor size, the means to see the work in it's entirety you have to pan around the screen and you never can see it unless it's reduced down, at that point a good majority of works that are abstract do lose impact to the viewer unless you have a TV/monitor hybrid 42"+ but even then it's still constrained by the limitations of online digital art as opposed to the physical sizes on canvas or gallery standard print with or without additional post work. Abstract by it's nature works best when viewed in it's entirety, you only have to go to a gallery and view works by Pollock, Kline or another and not just abstract expressionists. These days it can also apply to plenty of modern photography that is exhibited in gigantic sizes but is less prone to the problems associated to image size, usually before that comes into play file size limitations come to the fore when exhibiting online. There are undoubtedly a dozen compositions in this piece but in it's true full size exhibition size those could be viewed as part of a total viewing experience as is the case when we view abstract art in galleries.
dochtersions Online Now!
It's amazing how lively and vivid this bubble collection looks, really impressing by zoom, Mark. And so colourful too. It too looks like an interesting game to me. :). p.s. thank you for your nice comment, my friend!
kepp
lovely image