Crafted in 1960s East Germany by VEB Leuchtenbau Wittenberg, this large copper pendant light was originally designed for use aboard cargo ships, built to withstand demanding marine environments. Today, it has been meticulously restored by hand in the UK by Loomlight, bringing new life to a piece of industrial history.
I paint because I have to see again and again what will happen next when I am mixed with paint. And while the paintings are clearly visible, what I bring to them seems largely hidden. Daily living is a wall behind which much of our being resides and acts in the dark. The paintings then become a means of trying to find out just who is painting them.
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I like to meditate and feel free of thought before I paint. I simply cannot work after being in traffic. My main quality is to transform things, I love it. If someone wanted to give me a gift, just put me in a junk yard and I will spend the day as a kid, just being in the present moment… So painting for me is just playing with feelings in transforming colors and texture, until something starts talking to me, at that point I know that the playing is almost finish, it could take a couple of months, that’s why I’m always working on 15 to 20 paintings at the same time. 80% of my work is without thinking, the other 20% is to understand what is going on, after that I homogenize the work and make it cleaner.
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“Enough is never enough. Each piece is like a series of small battles – something to overcome in anongoing effort to please myself. The creative process is sometimes very exhausting, unlike the interpretation some have that it’s always therapeutic with ideas just flying onto the canvas”.
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Scott Plear is an abstract artist whose work is noted for its risk-taking use of colour, texture, and layering. His work focuses on non-objective imagery, and his practice of painting is concerned with the use of the visual elements as a means of expression. He paints on unstretched canvas, varying the format and process depending on the direction of the painting.
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