GRAHAM PEACOCK
Artist Statement
I have always painted and built things. I always knew what I wanted to do and fortunately was always encouraged to pursue Art.
My art school studies in London included Painting and Sculpturing from the Model in the Classical Tradition together with Modernist approaches to invention and the medium as an expressive vehicle. I began my first abstract work in 1961 and continue to work abstractly because I find it exciting to pursue ideas beyond those I know. The experience of my past and present paintings, intuition and logic guide me in the hypothesis of the next painting.
The pursuit of originality, quality and the expressive strength in art comes by the invention choice and creative use of form( a visual language). All work, despite its expressive, social or psychological value must, I feel, be resolved visually if it is to constitute art. This resolution being obtained by the visual unification of the form itself. This is, I believe, the essence of artistic activity, yet it does not in any way prescribe what the art is to be or how the resolution of form can be obtained. Rather by continued experiencing, we are shown what is indeed whole, unified and what is not.
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