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Jeremy Mayes

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About My Art


For around 25 years the main body of my work has been either traditional watercolour studies and portraits of animals and people plus the occasional impressionistic landscape.

In the last few years, however, expressionism, or rather artwork that springs purely from my imagination, has been my path. Through personal experience and much reading I no longer take reality as verbatim - I believe that we live much of our waking lives on a superficial surface and underneath is a deeply mysterious riddle. Also I feel everything is connected in a subtle, invisible way & this is a theme in my present work. I use shadow and colour to 'link' spaces and forms in a composition. One other theme in my present work is the relationship between natural landscape and synthetic structure - both in terms of form and tone. It's this work which is gaining some interest from publishers at the moment.

Regarding the actual creative process I'm finding that once an idea has come to mind and I believe it will form the basis of an interesting painting, a few sketches are produced - the colours and brush work are only thought about whilst actually painting, so creating a more spontaneous and, hopefully, more enigmatic work. I always end up using warm, natural tones. This 'spontaneity' also, I feel, keeps the creative process sup rising and rewarding.

As far as my influences go I find the work of Cezanne and Monet exquisite but also I love films and they have an influence on the aesthetic quality of my work, in particular Kubrick, Terry Gilliam and Peter Greenaway.


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A room by room guide to my online gallery of art
Townscapes & Industrial 1Gallery Room 1:Townscapes & Industrial 1
(11 images)
Townscape & Industrial 2Gallery Room 2:Townscape & Industrial 2
(12 images)
Land & Sea 1Gallery Room 3:Land & Sea 1
(13 images)
Land & Sea 2Gallery Room 4:Land & Sea 2
(10 images)
Still LifeGallery Room 5:Still Life
(4 images)
Portraits & FigurativeGallery Room 6:Portraits & Figurative
(6 images)
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